The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-11-13


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Give In
II had known. madam. that nm -.
pectsd % call yourself Mrs- sl0desrs- Bar
naby"-
!, Well Z. sir. If you had known II. what
Mr.. Barnaby got MP and walked the floor.
szith bis hands in his pockets. and 4 cold.
blighting sneer spreading itself all over his
face.
This hyphen business" be said. ..is
fad. 'Slcdgers- Barnabyi' Isn't il q lovely
combfnationf'
did you expect, sir. that when mar
ried you was going TO sink my own fndi-
viduality and become merely an append
age Of the Barnaby familyf,
Il didn't expect anything Of the kind.
but II had such name rs Slodeers and
had good chance to sink it I'd sink it.n
And II had been born with such
name as Barnaby never should 20 around
Boosting Of it Barnabyi Isn't 1t dar-
ling Of . namei''
You seemed willing enough to take it,
anyhow, madam
And yon didn't 80 anything wrong III
the name Of Slodgers when Won used Is
como hanging around the house where tie
Slodgerses lived. =
That i true" assented Mr.. Barnaby
mournfully; e was there, q ! regular
thing, about three Or four times i week
You were.n
And you were generally at home.n
II was" sighed Mrs. Slodgers -Barnaby
Mr.. Barnaby continued to walk the floor
4 can see some excuse for man parting
his name ID the middle" he said, If the
circumstances justify it, II my parents
had christeneds me Epaminondas George
should write my name Z. George Barnaby.
But this hyphenated way of stringing out
surname don't 60 a cent on. madam
not q cent
at needn't worry you. Slodgers- Barna-
BY isn't your name. You don't have to
carry it."
NO" he snorted. 'Isimply have to carry
the proud consciousness OF being the hus-
band Of Mrs. Slodgers- Barnaby."
IF you get tired of carrying 1t, sir''--
Look here, Huldah, how would you like
it" he broke in, IF should 90 to calling
myself Mr.. Barnaby -Slodgersf"
tt would be your own affair. II you
could stand it, Think could worry along
How would you like it II should insist on
your dropping the name of Barnaby and
calling yourself Mr.. SlodgersY
'sIf that were the custom l think I-nol
by the bones Of Tiglath-Pileser, couldn't
go thatl should draw the line at Slodg.
ersr'
.Thenn--
Just because one of the women in your
set calls herself Mrs. Murgatroyd- Haggerty
and another one wants everybody to speak
Of her as Mrs. Montmorency-Sn 0dgrass,
you think you mustn
Roger Barnaby have care how you
Just because that friend of yours in the
green front on the next corner expects to
go laundering down the ages as Mrs. Ches-
terfield Barber you must
Roger Barnaby, I'll drop that hyphen
and Ill sink the name Of Slodgers that
you detest 90 much on one condition.
''Name iti'' exclaimed Mr.. Barnaby
eagerly.
'.That you quit wearing creased trous-
ers."
"Mrs. Barnaby, you are presuming en-
tirely too much on
'This thing of wearing creased trousers
is merely fad. Just because Mr.. Fitz-
Shipper Is In the habit of wearing them,
you think you must
''But look herel p
.tHow would you like to see me going
around with my dress creased fore and aft
like az
"But don't you see'-
tits nothing but fad, tell you. II
Mr.. Pomeroy. Cordelie, who has just come
back from Europe, with an eyegiawss and
a drawl, chooses to 60 laundering down
the ages with pair of creased trousers on,