The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-11
A STUDY IN NAMES
Summer School Registry List Shows
Delightful Novelties in Fem
mime Nomenclature.
Girls in the School 0utnumber the
Boys Seven to
One.

Seven girls to one young man is the proper
ton Of sexes among the pupils Of the uni
rectory that has just been issued The total
attendance at the school is nearly 500 stu
dents. OF these 1O1 are men.
The names of the dominant sex reveal
that the Minnesota school teachers, actual
and prospective, who now attend the sum-
mer school. have not sacrificed their senti
ment to their culture. They have not been
These fastidious maidens, or their mammas,
have sought, instead, for rare, poetic, liquid,
lingering names, names that fairies or press
sweethearts or soubrettes
Thus comes an Alybertina to the summer
s sd;o bessie an Arzene Dalza sits con,
Of Anzonette Glendora writes her answers
down as wrong as Isadora Tama shares her
luncheon e, :. on the campus with Iona and Lor-
recitation. Well. when first saw Him /
Phamie whispers back, Yes ie DEAF. dear; Of course
YOU ala; but I Just knew He wouldn't do it
Him. and, besides, they had answered both
their letters during the noon recess, at the
building. Matte. however, is more chart
table She is going to meet her Iowa at the
big stone gate, and all "us girls" are going
then to catch the next car for the matinee.
delma -.
But, really is this school a summer
school? Isn't it something rarer, finer.
something far more useful and more beauti-
it, in truth, Guide to Doubtful Mothers: or
What Shall We Call the Baby?
For how shall baby grow more charming
even than mamma, unless the minute marvel
is equipped with name of fitting loneliness p
with different name too from that of any
other infant maid-to prove how different
Precious is from all the rest?
ana H. Tor any reason, a common name
must Serve. why should it look familiar? It
shouldn't 1t wouldn't, and it will not, if
mamma read, as she will read, about the
summer school. She may be informed al
READY, without doubt, that Pearle is quite az
priceless as a Pearl; that Macs as fresh as
May; that Carolyn and Katharyn might wear
the crown of England far more graciously
tnan Caroline and Katherine. Mamma may
guess that good Queen Mayme would never
seem see !. as bloody as Queen Mary; that Colum:
BUS might have discovered Cape Cod, If he
been aided by an Isabel or Isable; that
Louise of Prussia would have moved Ma
poleon S heart in the guise of Queen Luisa
But only at the summer school can mamma
learn the higher science of names. Here onIy
| is made as lucid a logarithm the dainty
difference between Mabel and Mable, and
also between Maybelle and Mabelle. It's in
the no1fenclature class that one awakens tc
the occult significance of Lylah and Loelis
and realizes that they could not be the Same
as Lila and Luella. You're scorned upon The
campus If you cannot tell why Bernhardine
| IS never Bernadine, why .Grayce is seldom
Grace.
But the final test Of learning ia still, IF
| come explained one of the thirty-sever
SUI sumner I.e school instructors Yesterday. III
| examinations for advanced certificates, AM
tnen we shall ask these questions:
| l. Define the peculiarities of an Emmo
| gene as contrasted with an Imogen
and II not why NOT -