Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1901-10-05
ID OF INITIALS.
Combinations that Sometimes Arise Frol
Names Chosen by Parents.


Tit-Bits: When parents are exer-
cising their ingenuity in choosing
names for their hopeful offspring It
rarely occurs to them TO make sure
that the initials do not form some COM
bination 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
Stanley Smith and the girl who signs
her name Ida Marie Paterson will
scarcely be proud OF their respective
initials, A. $. s. and I. NJ. =.
Some OF the combinations which have
come under the writer's observances
are, TO say the least. amusing. There
lis, for instance, q certain we'll known
temperance advocate whose initials are
r. y. M, but who very wisely drops
the second letter and IS content with
one Christian initial; while a man who
Is constantly appearing in the Ameri-
can police courts. charged with being
drunk and d~isorderly, ought, according
TO his initials, to drink nothing strong
er thar T. e. A., for his name is Titus
Exeter Alexander.
A gentleman who not long ago fig
ured as defendant in a breach OF prom
ise case had the singularly appropri-
ate initials of w Q. o.; while the plain
tiff's name was Susan, and she had with
unconscious provision, been addressed
by her lover In scores Of amorous let
ters as my darling Sue
In another breach Of promise case the
defendants initials were sadly omin-
Gus Of the Issue Of the action, for his
name was Percy Alfred ", and
he signed the initials Up. A. Y"
The divorce our records are full OF
similar strange condolences, some OF
which are so remarkable as to seem
scarcely credible. The initials of one
lady respondent were +. A. S. T.; 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 q
case which attracted considerable at
tention a few years ago was Stephen
Oliver Linoel D, whose initials,
S. o. l.. D., must have strongly de-
scribed his experiences Of matrimony.
A very modest hard working minister
Of the gospel goes through life branded
with curiously inappropriate initials of
+. O.. p, another whose e%loquence is
perhaps a little ford and vaporish
boasts the not unsuitable letters G.. A.
s., initials borne by the late Mr.. Sala.
A third clergymen is known by the
initials s. L. NJ: and a fourth goes q
step 1artner, ana, When ne signs his full
initials, which he rarely does, one may
be sure, writes himself down S. A. r. N.
One Of the earliest of this century's
brides changed her initials, w. e. N,
to w. e. d., a singularly happy and APP
propriate change; while a well-known
society lady, who was married two
years ago. became. in her new char
acter Of wife, M. A. l. d. The wife of
one Of u London preachers, a lady OF
singular sweetness of disposition, has
the initials s.. H. r. f. W.; while such
Is the irony Of initials, a woman who
was charged at a Scotch police court q
few weeks ago with a brutal assault on
an invalid husband, boosted the letters
p. i. II.
A clever tutor In the north of Eng
land is Mr.. j. A. Cass; and a London
official. who Is very far from answering
to the description, has to write him
self down a Fl. A. s. S."