The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-12-21
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pEsr1N1Es ro1p IN woMEN,s NAMES.

DEsTINIES TOLD IN WoMEN's NAMES.
Some women were talking the other night
about the influence Of names, and they claimed
that when you named child especially girl
child, you simply made 1t for life; that blonde
baby christened "Julian would turn dark and
grow tall and igniiedlooking and couldn't
help it. That Florence was certain to be
blonde and to have an inclination to play
dreamy music as Charlotte was to be an ener-
getic housekeeper; that Fanny couldn't help
being frivolous and frty, and that Katherine,
with all her pretty diminutives, always made
people fall in love with her, especially men
peoples that Maud and Cora would go to the
''demnition bow-wowsn without any volition
on their part, and that Ida and Blanche were
pretty certain to get there in time. That Mabel
was apt to be a little frigd, and Margarethad
a weakness for being blonde both in appearance
and temper. That Emily had a good strong
will of her own and was apt to have gray eyes,
and that Evelyn, well, there seemed to be a
general feeling that Evelyn was inclined to be
a bit of liar Everybody's mother seemed to
be named Mary, and every woman at some time
or another seemed to have friend, who was
very loyal, named either Frances, Edith, or
Helen. That Gladys was pretty name for a
girl as long as she was just girl, but that it
lacked dignity when she became woman.
That Louise had thin lips, was apt to be very
decided in her views, and that Josephine was
wheedling. All the diminutives of Mary were
approved of and Dorothy was given high
place of honor as being aristocratic. Some
thing was said about Barbara, and one woman,
without much sense, said she thought it was
like knife that cut, but another one, with a
great deal of sense, said that knife was as apt
to defend you as to cut you. This is what
three women said about women's names.
MEN AS sCANDAL-MoNGERs.
Who does the most gossiping in this world,
men orwomen? Well, there, l haven't used the
right word. Gossip, pure and simple, is harm
less, and really means chatting about gowns and
belongings people and things, in a kindly If
frivolous way. But who talks the most scandal
Men, my dear, men. It's my private opinion
that If any wicked scandal were followed up to
the place from which 1t emanated any wicked,
malicious rumor, 1t would be found that man
was at the bottom Of it-a man who was disliked
by the woman against whom he talked. Women
say nasty, tantalizng, abominabe little things,
just as small dogs snap at you and think they
are doing no end of harm, but men-well, men
don't hesitate to tell great big taradiddles that
are like the bites Of bulldogs, go in deep and
leave scar.
A woMAN's MOTTO FOR MEN.
Most of us hear unpleasant things of our
! selves; our friends are courteous enough always
to let us know of the unlind word, and most of
u.s. being what the world calls supersensitve,
shed bitter tears, tears that hurt the heart as
we'll as the eyes, over the yelping of mongrel
dogs, and then we get up and realize that it
would be great deal wiser we could be great
enough to scom these things. But you see we
can't; we are women, and the unkind word hurts