Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-06-21
!. WOMEN'S MARRIAGE NAMES =
ASSUMING HUSBANDS. NAME
Why. 60 -sblushing brides assume

Why. do-sblushins brides assume
Their husbands names or the #e9&n@
t sh1 forfeit their own forever
|rne cvnic's reply that the have little
10 to Nose and are bound for de-
orums sake to make some small
saorafice for the well-meaninG man
Tho offers up so much for them on
~ hvmeneal altar is far too fiippan5
hp considered seriously. The plain
ruth is that the time honored custom
one of the oldest relics Of q bar
arious epoch, when a woman was 4
here appendage. She was an ntegra!
ta,t;on of the gems or family. row of
!, father now of her brother, now OF
Far husband. She had no independent
krttv of her own Hence she took
, rar the surname Of her legal pro.
bctor. giving up the name OF her
ltbor Names were a label, lndlcat=
10 ownership, and changed accord
hgly. This is so true that wherever
omans rights are acknowledged
L was the case among many wild
t,ihes-the child received the mothers
hame or the appelation OF her gems,
hot that of the male parent, and con
koouently in war time, when the two
hnoon]e we're laying waste to each 9th
fr,s territory, fathers and sons were
.sHerally fighting in opposite camps
Of tho family has l.
swavs bestowed his name On its mem
| hers. and the first outward sign OF
female emancipation, when 1t does
come. will be the maintenaHlce by
Young wives with their maiden names
with or without the patronEmle OF
their husbands Why should it rot
he so even now? A wife is said to
be her husbands half, and very often
his better half Is rot meet thai
this relation should appear in the fan.
iv name? There is more IN 4 neme
than is dreamt Of by the masses. III
olden times it was. believed 10 be
large extent identical WI the per
sonaHty of =bes3a". It Was motto
be taken in vain. T9 mention the namg
of Iohengria. fer example. was to dc
prive him Of his life among mortals.
A force, a virtue. a spirit went out OF
him. and he ceased to be what he had
been. Is It fair that Girl should, on
taking to herself 4 husband, abandon
the personality which is embodied IN
her name for the sake OF one Mo
possibly would not cut off his muStaeh-
los or give UP pleasures for her pleas
Hes. Join names as you join hands'
gays a society formed with this OBJ
iect in southern Hungary.
This proposed dualism Of family
names is no unheaTd of innovation. 1t
has existed for generations, nay Tor
centuries. In Belgium man and wife
very often unite surnames when they
bind hands and hearts, and Sdo"ole-
barrelea names are as plentiful as
in autumn. They nave
ususally distinguished ring about
them as if they were titles OF noDliltY,
they are alarmingly long,
that however. is not the fault of inc
sytem. but only Of the country. Il
was terrible jaw-breaker. for n
stance, that was offered the friends Oh
the bride and bridegroom in the lnyl
tations sent out by the families, Van
denhoogstraaten and klnVerVankost-
Observation-Disclosures When thoSc
two surnames were welded toSe'he'
by a hyphen, bashful ladies and people
in p hurry never ventured near the
temptation. In Russia the ladys pat
ronymic always differs somewhat from
that of her husband. Countess Ioi-
stoi's name, for example. is Tolstaya
in the nominative. # one were all
dressing an envelope to the married
couple her name would be Tolstols ana
his Tolstomoo At first sight the Rus-
sian ladies' seem to have stolen the
march on their English sisters ana 70
have saved some appearances ct lnde-
pendence. But this fancy IS llluslVe'
In Russian the family name Whel
borne by males, is a substantive anu
can stand by itself; when the bearer
is a lady it is a mere adjective Whlch
needs a substantive expressed or uil-
derstood to give IT vitality ana exist
ence.
E,1t nowhere is the rig;.t OF wolaah
to their own dea. maiden ra nes so
universally admitted or 50 st Acl't' Ell
soiced as iii Spain When StaalSh
con solemnly pledges his troth TO a
sr;i'jng girl at The altar he "dt' her
alpellation to his own, and evel a't'f-
w;.rd the two names are linked TO-