The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-17
FIRST NAMES OF YOUNG WOMEN

! Some of the Names OF Young Teachers
/ Who Have Been Graduated Recently.
| Fifty-two young women we're graduated
| from the training Departments OF the Nor
| NAL college and "a from the college
| proper. This IS the college which specid
/ cally prepares it's students 90 bs teachers.
/ and 10 is therefore a professional school
/ attended by young women who are getting
/ ready for the serious work Of making their
living
But when we read the names Of 4 large
part Of these graduates We find that they
are appeilations " bich suggest rather a CAV
and giddy view Of life -nd ~ responsible
ties. They are not the names Of mature
and serious women. but of the pets and
playthings Of the nurseTy. We cannot as
soCiate with them the dignity and the. con
sequence of teachers occupied with grsver
matters than dolls and cuFi papers, and
with stern duties rather than with Tho ease
and pleasures ~ existence They 10 not b~dt
young women " no are starting out to pre-
pare themselves for al exhaustin1g profeg-
sion and are uo longer rocked ia cradles
or guarded from tho cares and hardships
Of the world by dotlnZ domestic affection
Twelve of the class OF fifty two ia tie
training department and about Gfty Of ths
"a graduates Of the college sign them
selves with mere PEI names ending 70 IT,
AZ II they bad no other aud from manifest
preference for the uurSgrT aimiuutIveg
Among thsse are Bessfe, Jennie. Nellie.
Carrie, BiFdis. Mamie, Adfiia9znd Fannie.
no real namesas al, but only sIppellatfous
coined by the Familiarity and tenderness %
privileged relatives. ami iutImafas. What
Bircie's bspt.smA name ia ws cannot
guess, but the true names Of tho O.. hers are
Elizabeth, Jane, Helen. CzroIiue. Mari.
AdUlUe aDd France all Terminus d6ssruA-
tions n q distinguished hlstory noble. I'll <
Bihed and euphSnIols.
BUT these girls IooiSrrpon thsn c. Zoo
hOneiy. too Old fashioned. Trey think "a
uaIsa ending ia 81 IL much prutflgr aud
rlors engaging. and 80 Il may % in ~
proper placs and IS 81 szPrrasi0n of ale
ton from tnSsS wks ars entitled by Iii
ship CT lsuR and clos acquaintance 70 use
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else u = 10 Elora the rsal maze 81 "a vga-
man than Johnnls or BOB. sam or J.II -te
the tr1e names Of men
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diruinu,.vez - u tbey uese tielr forruz! I
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