Evening capital., 1891-12-11
rnElR FIRsr avARnEI.
A Painful Episode tn the Lffe OF Mr..
and Mrs. Siodgers- Rrrnaby.

and Mrs. Stodgers- R~rnaby.
If had known. madam, thar you ex-
pected to call yourself Mrs. SIodgers- Bar
naby-"
well, sir. if you had known it, what
then 2"
Mr. Barnaby got up. and walked the
tloor with his hand in his pockets and
cold. blighting sneer spreading itself all
over his face.
This hyphen business. he said, ~is a
fad. Slodgers .Barnabyr Isn't il a lovely
combination?
~Difyou expect, sir, that when mar
ried you | was going 60 sink my own in
dividuality and become merely an anpen.
1age of the Barnaby familyl"
IL didn't expect anything OF the kind.
but if had such a name as Slodgers and
had good chance to sink it I'd sink il. !"
And il had been born with such a
name ms Barnaby | never should go
around boasting OF il. Barnsby' lsn't
il darling of name;"
"You seemed willing enough to take ID,
anyhow. madam,
And you didn't see anything wrong IN
the name of Slodgers when you used to
come hanging around the house whero
the Slodgerses livedp"
THAT is true, assented Mr. Barnaby
mournfuily, II was there. as a regular
thing, about three or four times week :"
You were.
And you were generally at home.
Il was, sighed Mrs Sodgers Bar.
uaby.
Mr. Barnaby continued to walk the
floor
Il can see some excuse for man part.
ing his name in the middle, he said, iii
the circumstances justify it. II my par
ents had christened me Epaminondas
George should write my name E. George
Barnaby. But this hyphenated way OF
stringing out a surname don't go cent
on, madam-not cent.
1T needn't worry you. Slodgers.
Barnaby isn't your name, You don't
have to carry it,
No, he snorted, Il simply have to
carry the proud consciousness Of being
the husband of Mrs. Slodgers- Barnaby. :"
IF you get tired OF carrying it, sir 49,"
"Look here, Huldah, how would you
like it, he broke in, If I should go to
calling myself Mr. Barnaby-Slodgersf"
1T would be your own affair II you
could stand it / think / could worry
along How would you like it If should
insist on your dropping the name of
Barnaby and calling yourself Mr.. SIod
gersI"
"lf that were the custom l think l.
mol by the bones of Tiglath- Pileser,
couldn't go thatl should draw the line
at Slodgers!"
"Then-"
"Just because one of the women in
your set calls herself Mrs. Murgatroyd
Haggarty and another wants everybody
to speak of her as Mrs. Montmorency.
Snodgrass you think you must"
Roger Barnaby. have q care how
you"
Just because that friend of yours IN
the green front on the next corner ex-
poets to go laundering down the ages as
Mrs. Chesterfield Barker you must" :"
"Roger Barnaby, I'll drop that hyphen
and I'll sink the name of Slodgers thai
you detest so much on one condition.
Name it," exclaimed Mr. Barnaby
eagerly.
THAT you quit wearing creased
trousers.
Mrs. Barnaby, you are presuming en-.
tirely too much on"
"This thing of wearing creased trousers
is merely a fad. Just because Mr. Fitz-
Simper is in the habit of wearing them
you think you must"
But look herel ="
"How would you like to see me going
round with my dress creased fore and aft
like a."
But don't you see"
It's nothing but fad, tell you. II
Mr.. Pomeroy Cordelle, who has come
back from Europe with an eyeglawss and
a drawl, chooses to go laundering down
the ages with a pair of creased trousers
on, let him do it. But by the bones Of
Tiglath-Pileser, / wouldn't"
Huldah, said Mr.. Barnaby feebly, as
he threw up his hands and sank into the
nearest chair, Il cavel You can keep
your hyphen. Slodgers- Barnaby goesl'
Chicago Tribune.