St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-11-26
Their First Quarrel.


3 eff had known, madam. that you ex-
pected to call yourself Mrs. Slodgers-
Barnaby-"
well, sir, if you had known it, what
then?'
Mr.. Barnaby got up and walked the
floor with his hands in his pockets and
cold, blighting sheer spread itself all
over his face.
"This hyphen business he SAID, ''is
a fad. 'SlOdgerS-B arnabvp Isn't it
lovely combination?'
Did yOn expect, sir, that when l
married you L was going to sink my
own Individuality and become merely
an appendage of the BarnabY family?"
81 didn't expect anything of the kind,
but If | bad such name as SlOdgers,
and had good chance to sink it, I'd
sink it."
And if had been born with such a
name as Barnaby L never should 90
around boasting of it. Barnaby! Isn't
it darling of Il name?"
You seemed willing enough to take
it, anyhow, madam"
"And you didn't see anything wrong
in the name of SlOdgers when you used
to come hanging around the house
where the SlOdgerSeS lived?"
That is true" aSSented Mr.. Barnaby.
mournfully, Il was there, as a regular
thing, about three or four times
week"
"You were"
"And you were generally at home"
81 was" sighed Mrs. SlOdgers- Barn
aby.
Mr.. Barnaby continued to walk the
floor.
81 can see some excuse for man
parting his name in the middle" he
SAID, "if the circumstances justify it.
If my parents had chriStened me Epa-
minOndaS George | should write my
name E. George Barnaby. But this
hyphenated way of Stringing out a sur
name don't go cent on, madam-not
a cent"
ut needn't worry you. Slodgers-
Barnaby isn't your name. You don't
have to carry ii"
No" he snurted. II simply have to
carry the proud consciousness of being
the husband OF Mrs. Slodgers-Barn
aby."
"If you get tired of carrying it, sir
Look here, Huldah, how would you
like it," he broke in, 'lf | should go to
calling myself Mr.. Barnaby-Slodgers?
ut would be your own affair. If you
=
along. How would you like it if 1
should insist OH your dropping the name
OF Barnaby and calling yourself Mr..
SlOdgerS?''
''If that were the custom / think L
no! by the bones of Tiglath- PileSer. [
couldn't go that. | should draw the line
at Slodgers.."
"Theu-"
just because one of the women in
your set calls herself Mrs. Murgatr0yCi-
Haggerty and another one wants every
body to speak of her as Mrs. MOntmOI-
ency-SnOdgrasS yOu think you must"
Roger Barnahy, have care how
you ="
Just because that friend of yours in
the green front on the next corner ex-
poets to 20 laundering down the ages as
Mrs. Observation-Disclosures yOu mast -"
Roger Barnaby, I'll drop that by
pheh and I'll sink the name OF SlOdgerS,
that you deteSt SO much, on one cOndi-
tom
Name it!'' exclaimed Mr.. Barnaby,
eagerly.
That you quit wearing creased trOus-
ers."
Mrs. Barnaby, you are presuming
entirely too much on -"
This thing of wearing creased trOus-
ers is merely fad. just because Mr..
FitZ-Simper is in the habit OF wearing
them you think you must -"
but look here! -
"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. tell you. If
Mr.. POmerOy COrdelle, who has lust
come back from Europe, with an eve
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 Tiglath-Pileser, l
wouldn't"
''HuIdah," said Mr.. Barnaby, feebly,
as he threw up his hands and sank into
the nearest chair" Il cave! You can
keep your hyphen. Slodgers- Barnaby
gOesI'