The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-11-29

for to their nara4S while others are absis-
sateiy crushed under rhsm- To my way
of thin king there are no names 50 oezuts-
fuI as those taken from the Biose- There
is 4gnfty and wonanllness In Miriam,
Leah <salcrne Rachel. Ruth. Deborah,
Elizabeth and Aagdzien but when yea
cali Sarah Sadie" when Racns. Is lower
ed into one syllable. when any OF them
are degraded into n3cknamsS. / can mag
fne the cid prophets arising and calling
down az sorts OF bad fortune on rhe fcoA-
ssh women IL is said that Mr. Tennyson
- responsible for the influx OF Saxon
names that came TO as at one tizne-Maud.
Mabel. Gwendoiine, EleanoFe, EIhelind.
and ever 10 many others that we're as Dig
n.faed as they are sweet-s2unding- For
myself. / like q name witt meaning
Constance, which tells its story OF faith
fniness al once: Amabel, from which Ma
bel comes. and which Is after al Only a
twisting around OF the word ''aullanls.'
talsn there is Penelope. q weaver. su-
same. a lily; Hilary. a cheerful spirit:
Emma. a gem Angelina, little anget
Beatrice. q blessing: Ada, O princess, and
Agatha, gracious. There are hundreds OF
Others, and each Sns tells It's own starry
Did you ever trouble yourself 10 follow
name through the different languages
Take the name Rose. which Is OF Latin
birth. and means. OF course, the queen OF
TIC uONrSss IA 4iahs&As IL ScSS34iES Seo1~-
bella, which means a fair rose, ana Ia
German IL Is RossInond. which means
rosy lips. Now. there would be some sense
IN q grandmother named Rose. win
granada lighters. each having the name In
It's pretty changes. Visiting In the High
lands once, / met small girl who was
named Vida, and until she educated me
never realized how ignorant l Was Eager
to make her talk. 1 asked her for whom
Sa ha l.
er. for his name was David. and Is was
only when little search had been made
that discovered that. in the Gaelic, Vida
Is the feminine of David. Who THAI ever
read David Copperheld' could think OF
a girl named Dora as anything else but
meek. foolish. indeed, absolutely silly.
though entirely Iovabls7 Ana who that
ever read "Middlemarch" could think OF a
woman named "Dorothsa" except as one
eager I'd do right, eager for wisdom, and
yet with heart and brain battling against
each otherg Could Becky Sharp have
been called by any other manner When you
say Becky don't you seem to hear tho
sound OF gold. and don't you think SIM
ply of the good things OF this world and
how they are to be gained9 And aoesn'
Amelia sound like buttered toast? Soft
and adapted 10 any digestion. IL seems To
me that the people who name as have
much 10 answer for. There Is the boy
who is slender OF build, weak OF mind.
vain and inclined TO be talkative, weight
ed down by Reginald or Oliver, or even
Hector. Any clerk IN a haberdasher shop
could down him. There are men who, all
their lives long. are known by initials. be-
cause they realize the folly of having been
given a fashionable name. j rather like
the southern fashion Of giving 10 the old
est daughter her mothers maiden name;
II doesn't Undue her with any masculine
instincts. and II seems. In pretty way, to
make her cling to the girfhood - the past.