The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-14
My NeighbOr.
NAMES.

A writer in Harpers Bazar calls at tention to the fact that pet and baby names have now altogether disappeared from the catalogues of girls schools. Instead of pages besprinkled with "Lolly" and ''Tootsie" and "Birdie," and others equally absurd, we have names that are dignihed, names that are homely, in the best sense, and names of beautiful meanings and musi- cal syllables. .n.-
 From the lists of teachers in the pub- lie schools the Mamie and Sadie names are also disappearing; in fact, in many cities it is now obligatory upon the teacher that she give her baptismal name or names in full, whether they are agreeable to her taste or not. The result is, that while such catalogues and registers appear much more re- served and formal they gain also in i'm pressiveness, suggesting that the owners of these names are reliable, earnest and judicious people, ambitious scholars or discriminating teachers.
 Even little tots of tender years are now habitually addressed as Theodore and Rosalind instead of Dot" and Rosy" And good old-fashioned names have once more asserted their right to recognition; they insist upon a hearing for all their syllables, and if they pAo1 ovo Mprroraf o,1d IA garet and Agatha they must be. We are to have no more Maggies and Ag- gies, even in the nursery
 The reason for this seems to be nat ural enough. Yearly women are of- fered more advantages of education and training, and all that is best in the world may be theirs for the winning. In professional and business life, and in the not less onerous if more retired duties of the home, they seem to pos sess all the sagaoity of modern man, with all the tact and lovableness of women Of all times. It is only fitting that they many men seem to find it difficult to do this, and that their name should be given seriously, as part of their equip ment for future usefulness. And per haps one good result of this will be that names will be more carefully chosen than ever before, with view to euphony meaning, and daily use, To choose a name that will still be beau tiful and stately, even when it's owner sits with folded hands in life's evening twilight is surely wiser and kinder thing to do than to make her bear a baby name all through her active wo- manhood. As for having the little one baptized Jerusha, Jernina, or Keren- Happuck, after the far removed rela- tive, who. you hope, will acknowledge this compliment in her last, will and testament this also will be a foolish thing to do, since good form decrees that by her name she must be called, and that there shall be no substitu- ton. at least in public, of Daisy or Pearlie, or any other evasive and nis leading nickname.
 An unknown correspondent with an indecipherable signature requests en- lightenment in "The Fleeting Show"on the propriety or improprfety of the writer's use of the word "slnce," fl, this connection. Sometime since thero xp- peared in this column," etc, it sE7
 The inquirer is referred to the Cen tury Dictionary, that rnasterpiece of lexieography whi0h 'as Is well known, was compiled under the superpisioii of "the most learned man in America, r tho late Professor Whitney. ThS word sis there defined as foijpws: tii ;sat
 "Bsfore now: ssS; with an adveFbiAi phrase specifyipt, the amount of tine separating the KAnt or ttIus in-4ueStion