The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-08-09
IRONY OF INITIALS.
Combinations That Sometimes Arise
from Names That Are Chosen by
Fond Parents.
From Tit Bits.

Fond Parents.
From Tit-Bits
When parents are exercising their in
genuity in choosing names for their
hopeful offspring it rarely occurs to
them to make sure that the initials do
not form some combination for which
their children will scarcely rise up and
call them blessed in later years.
For instance, the boy who was given
the not unpleasant name of Arthur
Stanton Smith and the girl who signs
her name Ida Marie Paterson will
scarcely be proud of their respective
initials, A. S. 8. and /. M. p.
Some of the combinations which have
come under the writer's observance
are, to say the least, amusing. There
| is, for instance, a certain well known
| temperance advocate whose initials are
| II. U. M, but who very wisely drops
| the second letter and Is content with
| one Christian initial; while man who
is constantly appearing in the Ameri-
can police courts, charged with being
drunk and disorderly, ought, according
to his initials, to drink nothing strong
err than T. e. A, for his name is Titus
Exeter Alexander.
A gentleman who not long ago fig
ured as defendant In breach Of prom
initials of w. o. o.; while the plaintiffs
name was Susan. and she had, with
unconscious provision, been addressed
by her lover in scores of armorous let
tiers as my darling Sue"
In another breach of promi-e' case
the defendants initials were sadly omi-
nous of the issue of the action, for his
name was Percy Alfred Y, and he
signed the initials up. A. Y"
E..NI -
similar strange condolences, some of
which are so remarkable as to seem
scarcely credible, The initials of one
lady respondent were r. A. S. s.; and of
another f. r. A, L.; one good lady
whose conduct scarcely seemed to have
justified the description had the initials
p. r. u. D.; and the petitioner in n
case which attracted considerable at
tention few years ago was Stephen
Oliver Lionel D., whose initials. s.
o. l.. d., must have strangely described
his experience of matrimony.
very modest hard working minis
ter of the gospel goes through life
branded with the curiousiy inappropri-
ate initials of f. o. p, another whose
eloquenee is perhaps little forid and
vaporish, boasts the not unsuitable let
tiers G. A. S.. initials borne by the late
Mr.. Sala. A third clergyman is known
by Tie lilllldlS D. L. M anu a. iOuTln
goes a step further, and when he signs
his full initials. which he rarely does,
one may be sure. writes himself down
S. A. T. N.
One of the earliest of this century's
brides changed her initials, w. e. NJ, to
w. Il. D., a sngularly happy and APP
propriate change; while a well known
society lady. who was married two
years ago, became, in her new charac-
ter of wife NJ. A. !. d. The wife of one
of our London preachers, a lady of sin
gular sweetness of disposition, has the
initials S. II. r. e, w; while such is
the irony OF initials, a woman who was
charged at Scotch police court a few
weeks ago with brutal assault on an
invalid husband boosted the letters r.
u. T.
A clever tutor in the North of Eng
land is Mr.. j. A. Cass; and London
official, who is very far from answer
ing to the description, has to write
himself down a H, A. s. s."