The record-union., 1891-12-04
THEY FINALLY AGREED.
Mrs. S1odgers-lSnrnaby VIII Keep II
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''If l had known, madam, that you ex
pected to call yourself Mrs. Slodgers-
Barnaby-"
''WelI, sir, if you had known it, what
then?'
Mir. Barnaby got up and walked the
floor with his hands i'll his pockets, and a
cold. blighting sneer spreading itself all
over his face.
This hyphen business" he said, ''is a
fad. 'Slodgers Barnabyo Isn't it a lovely
combination ?"
did you expect, sir, that when l mar
ried you | was going to sink my own in
dividuality and become merely an APP
pendage Of the Barnaby lamily?''
Il didn't expect anything OF the kind,
but if / had such a name as Siodgers,
and had a good chance 10 sink it, I'd
sink it,"
And if 1 had been born with such a
name as Barnaby, / never should 20
around boasting of il. Barnaby! Isn't
it darling Of a nameY"
You seemed willing enough to take it,
anyhow, madam"
the name Of Slodgers when you used to
come hanging around the house where
the Slodgers lived"
That is true" assented Mr.. Barnaby,
mournfully. Il was there. as a regular
thing, about three or four times week."
- on We're.
"And you were generally at home"
81 was," sighed Mrs. Slodgers- Barn
aby.
SIr. Barnaby continued to walk the
floor.
II can see some excuse for man part
ing his name in the middle" he SAID, ''if
the circumstances justify it. Ii my pa
rents had christened me Epaminondas
George I should write my name T.. George
Barnaby. But this hyphenared way of
stringing out surname | don't go cent
on, madame-not a cent"
1T needn't worry you. Slodgers-
Barnaby isn't your name. You don't
have to carry it,
NO" he snorted; IT simply have to
the husband of Mrs. Slodgers-B -Barnaby."
eff you get tired of carrying it, sir"
''Look here, Huldah, how would you
like it, he broke in, ''if | should go to
calling myself Mr.. Barnaby-Slodgers ?''
''It would be your own affair. If you
could stand it | think l could worry
along. How would you like it if 1 should
insist on your dropping the name of
Barnaby and calling yourself Mr.. Slodg-
ers?"
IF that were the custom think I-no!
by the bones of Tiglath Pileser, | couldn't
go that! L should draw the line at
Slodgers"
inch
Just because one of the women in
your section calls herself Mrs. Murgat-
royd Haggerty and another one wants
everybody to speak of her as Mrs. Mont
morency Snodgrass you think you
must
Roger Barnaby, have care how
you
"Just because that friend of yours in
the green front on the next corner eX-
poets to 60 laundering down the ages as
Mrs. Chesterfield-Ba you must
Roger Barnaby, I'll drop that hyphen
and I'll sink the name of Slodgers, that
you detest so much, on one condition."
Name it," exclaimed Mr.. Barnaby,
eagerly.
sers."
Mrs. Barnaby, you are presuming
entirely too much on -"
This thing of wearing creased trou-
sers is merely a fad. Just because Mr.
them, you think you must -''
but look here! T.
"How would you like to see me going
round with my dress creased fore and aft,
like "a"
"But don't you see
Its nothing but fad, I tell you. If
Mr.. Pomeroy Cordelle, who has just
come back from Europe, with an eye
glawss and drawl, chooses to go thun-
dering down the ages with pair of
creased trousers on, let him do it. But,
by the bones of Piglath- -Pileser, /
wouldn't"
''Huldah," said Mr.. Barnaby feebly,
as he threw up his hands and sank into
the nearest chair, 81 cavei You can keep
your hyphen. SlodgersB Barnaby goes!''
Chicago Tribune.