Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-01-03
What Shall We N anne the Babyp

''What shall we name the baby?" is an
important question this year. for the crop,
like the wheat, was never better. 1t is
rather soon to undertake to grade them as
'No. 4. No. 2. or rejected and your head
and reputation are both safer 10 pronounce
the entire lot No. l; but the question as to
names must be settled at once. One would
think nothing was easier than naming the
baby, for the world has been full of names
for 5000 years. yet it is subject that
elicits the gravest discussion in the family,
and reaches out to the advisory board"
of the neighborhood, and often ends IN
open dissatisfaction, or compromise by
which the poor child goes through life
carrying prenomen crushing enough to
break the constitution and make the life
of the bearer miserable. A. long name is
always disadvantage. For boy who en-
tiers the marts of trade a double name is
often safeguard. and especially so when
| the middle letter is one seldom used in
proper names. The leading name should
be short and easily spoken. as the fact is
too apparent to every one that if such is
| not the case nickname is sure to follow.
! The case Of the girl is entirely different.
| No girl should be burdened with double
name, no matter how many aunts and
grandmothers are to be honored by so do
ing. A girl should have single name,
and that should be pronounceabie and
! musical. Mehitable or Jerusha, and like
names, may be good and substantial
enough, but a young lady sooner or later
revolts. Every young lady, as matter of
course, expects to marry, and should not
lose her family name by so doing, but
simply add that of her husband She
should get her double name by this i'm
portant act of her life, and not before
Chicago Inter Ocean.
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PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES.
There have been nineteen Presidents of
the United States. Of this number Vir-
ginia has had seven, whose aggregate SER
vice amounted to 81 years and 3 months,
over one-third OF life to date Of the gov.
eminent. Massachusetts has had two, in
Office for years; New York two, in office
s years and 8 months; North Carolina two
in office years and II months; South Car
DINA one and Ohio one-one in office four
years, and the other eight years-Andrew
jackson and Ulysses Simpson Grant re-
spectively; New Hampshire, Pennsylvania
and Kentucky each one, in Office years
each, except, in the case of the latter,
Abraham Lincoln, who served 20 days up
on his second term. Connecticut one (R.
B. Hayes), who has been in Office one year
and nine months to date, through both
frauds and cowardice, instead of the right
fully elected President, who should prop
erly be credited to New York, making that
State count three instead of two. The
State of Virginia furnished Washington,
Jefferson, Madison, Monroe. Harrison,
Tyler and Taylor; South Carolina, Andrew
Jackson; North Carolina. Polk and John
son, and Kentucky, Lincoln. Thus it ap-
the balance of the country 8 Presidents,
representing period of 81 years, months
and 40 days, exclusive of the four years of
war, or 81 out o: 80 years. And yet the
South is solid, and the North not happy.
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YOUR PASTORS W1FE.-Remember
that your PASTORS wife has woman's
heart. Do not be too frank and free in |
criticising her to her face. She may keep
a calm countenance in your presence, but
the flood-gates will give way when you
leave the house. Do not be unjust or un-
generous, You have small church and |
pay very limited salary. You think your
PASTORS wife should do her Homework |
without the aid of servant. Some of |
you have no such assistance. While she
is struggling to do this, possibly without
your robust health, do not lecture her be- |
cause she visits SO little and doea not at
tend all the SOCIAL meetings. You can
readily visit her; but there are fifty
families in the congregation to whom sha |
must pay equal attentions. She heard
your well-meant but sharp criticism the
other day, and tried family to smile and
respond like Christian woman, but she
sank under the weig hit of 1t when you left.
and her husband found her utterly dis
couraged, exhausted by weeping, and re-
Qlining upon the cough in quite high
fever: Carry balm when you visit her, not |
an naturalization Herald.
READ AGRIcULTURE.-You Dung man,
before beginning to read law. medicine or
theology, ask yourself if it would not b |
better to read agriculture and practice it. |
Are not the so-ealled learned professions
crowded to their utmost capacity? Is !
there not more inviting field open before |!
you than learned lawyer, divine or doc
tor2 To attain distinction in any of these
professions you will, inoat likely, have to |