Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1881-10-15

The pame 1s great Duruo' I,far.I
boy. He will always feel IT.
iority to his namesake is 1neVitap.e
Beside, this promiscno2s use ~
great names degrades them " ~ no
a pleasant thing to see a GsorE"
Washington or a Benjamin Erahk"
In the police news for petty lsrceny?l
.5s For tho most. part Old Testament ,
names are defective in, enphony, aud
very inharmonious with English
family names. Ths female natues ara
still less musical. Nothing eau recon-
cile us to Naomi Brett, Hephzibah
Dickensou, or Diuah Winter. Aud
TO prove shat the unpleasant effect
produced by such combiu atoms does
not result from the surnatnes select
ed, let us substitute appellatiOns un-
exceptionable, aud the result viii be
even worse-Naomi Pelham, Heph-
|zibah Howard, Dinsh Neville: A
Hebrew Christian uame requireS, III
most cases, Hebrew surname.
Some parents very wisely refuse |
for their children all names suscepti- |
I BILE of the nicking process, thinking
with DIR. Dove that SIT is not good
thing to be Tom'd or Bob'd Jack'd or
Jim'd, Sand or. Bend, Wild or
Bill'd, Joe'd or Jerry'd, as you go
through the world" Sobriquets are
to be equally deprecated. We know
Ia beautiful woman whs, when q girl,
i .was remarkable for q wealth OF rt9-
/ ping, curling hair. Some one gave
fher the name Of ''Fritz," and IL still
stIcks TO the ignitied matron. q Wit,
or would-be wit, tlelig ts to exercise
itself after this fashion, but Q childis
name Is too precious thing to be
ridiculed.' ''''' = 90 . a''''
iFanciful names are neither always
, pretty NOR prudent. Parents had
call their children Grace, Faith, Hope,
+ Fortune, Love, etc. 1t is possible that
their efteriife may turn such nsmes
Iinto bitter irODy.lu =iaai JgI ,H.a.
: For, the sake, of oonciliating ., rtch
friend never give child dissgreea.
Z Bile or barbaric name. It will be-
tl1horn in his side as long 90 he lives
= aud after all he may miss the legacy
= A child, too, may have such an -
y sembly OF unrythmical names tha
: be aud his friends have to go joltipi
2 lover them all their lives. Suppose I
3 boy il called Richard Edward Robert
:, The ear in Q moment detects jumbl
I. OF sounds of which it can make moth
y ling. II many Christian names ar
Y decided upon, string them itOgethe
s On some harmonious principle ; name
Is that arc mouthfuls of conaonauts cai
ID not be borne without bad conat
9, quences to the owner. - .
% THE euphony of our nomenclatur
q would be greatly improved by j.
dicious adaptation Of the Chrfstif
name to the surname. When the 80
10 name is q monosyllable the Chrlstia
70 name should be long. Nothing CD
~ reconcile the car to such curt name
ne as Mark Fox, Luke Hsrte, Ann Scot
% Gilbert Fox, Alexander Har.e ail
q Cecilia Scott are far more desirable!
tl- With such q variety Of exccllei
o. Christian names, it Is astoniship
o. that SO. few should be in ordlnas
as use. The dictionaries contain lists
'ts about 25O male aud $50 female name
sr- but out Of these not more than twen'
IT. or thirty for each sex can be called 4
ne all common. 5se Il
fst Yet our language has many beaut
IS. full names, both male and femal
" worthy Of popularity they haven
re-. yet attained. Among the male, {
,b- Eipstance-Alban, Ambrose, Bernar
|u- Clement. Christopher, Gilbert, 60
sr- frey, Harold, Michael. MarmaduI
'u- Oliver, Paul, Ralph, Rupert. Roge
ler Reginald, Roland, Sylvester. The
ur bald, Urban, Valentine, Vince
is Gabriel, Tristram, Norman, Perciv'
st. Nigel. Lionel, Nicholas, Eustat
fv- fi1dny y,,ss~.la.Ai...>-R.a p .ait- Martin. A
70. of which have the, attributes
to euphony. good etymology and int
OF estlng associations.
Jed And among the female names "
RE have we not more girls called by
. noble or graceful appellations |
ras Agatha, Alethia, Arabella. Beatri
Sc, Bertha, Cecilia, Evelyn, Ethel, 9,
lad trude, Issbel, Leonors. Florence, n
not dred, Millicsnt, Phillippa. PauiiI
as Hide, Clarice, Amabel, Irene, z
'ot- Muriel, Estelle, Eugenia, Enphell
IAN Christnble, Theresa, Marcia, Anton
Claudia, Sibylla, Rosabel, Rcsamol
fs Iltc.. etc ftt aHf '-s Ir5rL 10 --4-sEL 'tla