Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-04-15
WEARY OF ODD NAME
Why the Eggs viii Be ECkS Soon
as Easter Is Over.
FOUND THEIR CASING IRKSOME

Restaurant Man Asked Court to Free
Him and His Wife From UnreIished
Jests of Facetious Friends-Says
He's "Done on Both Sides All RIGHT"
At this season Of the year. with
eggs leading the batting order at ev-
cry breakfast table and in great
many homes playing three games a
day, it seemed particularly apropos
that Mr.. and Mrs. Ulrich Egg of New
York city should ask Supreme Court
Justice O'Gorman for permission to
LAY" Egg aside and substitute Eek.
They gave so many eggcellent reasons
that Justice OGOrman granted the re-
quest the other day and set April %
as the date on which they might tear
off their present shells. Then they
will be dropped Eggs.
Most persons get tired of eggs about
Easter, but when you use the same
Egg for thirty-four years, as Egg has
done, it is bound to become monoto.
nous. Mrs. Egg has been wearing the
name about three years, and she re,
Gently admitted she was only waiting
for the opportunity to scramble out
from under it. Not that their friends
have grown tired of the Eggs, but the
Eggs feel that they have furnished the
comedy for their friends Just about
long enough Both are perfectly good
Eggs, but say they are almost cracked
from listening to the feeble jokes
cracked at their expense.
Each has a splendid sense of humor,
and this is the only thing that has pre-
vented them boiling over on more than
one occasion. 1t didn't help matters
any to have Egg in the restaurant
business, and in his petition to the
court asking for permission to shed his
name he set forth list of annoyances
which proves that he has Job looking
like nervous bridegroom at a church
wedding. Mrs. Egg presides over
fashionable dressmaking establish
ment, and she couldn't recall single
instance where her name had helped
her any. She is a handsome woman
and laughed merrily while her hus-
band discussed the situation with a
reporter.
1--WE been in hot water ever since
I've had the name" said Egg,
'"Then you must be hard boiled by
/ this time" said the reporter
"Im done on both sides all right"
| laughed Egg. "In Switzerland, where
we come from, the name is pronounced
Eek, and, besides, it has a different
meaning"
How did you come to marry your
husband?' Nine Egg was asked.
Il was always fond of Eggs" she
said, "and l guess that had something
J to do with it."
I'm pretty much of n nest egg"
was Eggs next contribution. Here his
wife gave her Egg a nudge that
threatened to break it.
Are there any small Eggsf' asked
the reporter joining in the cackle.
| Not yet" came in chorus. Guess If
we did have three or four children
we'd be known as the half dozen
! Eggs"
Il think ! better beat it." said the
reporter, before I'm whipped to a
/ froth."
Wont you have little refresh
ment before you goF asked the boss
| OF the house.
"If it's all the same to You I'll have
sherry and egg" said the reporter
make mine an egg shake" laughed
Nine. Egg.
"Do you think you're going to like
! your new name?'
J 20, .
/ for awhile, but anything is better than
J Egg. l tried the new one on several
! friends today. and they thought | had
| the hiccoushs."
After wishing Mr.. and Mrs. Eek as
much prosperity under their new
! name as they have had under the old
one the reporter withdrew, feeling as
! though he had been poaching on their
! good nature. They live in fine
/ brownstone "cratc" and have the CON
I fidcnce of all their noighrors which is
: more than some eggs can boast.
Just one paragraph from The petition
( to the court answers Shalle~pcare's.
! query as 10 what's i'm a name:
! "ThaJ his present uame Of Egg
/ causes him aHd his wife II -reut deal
/ of trouble HGH annoyance and humilia-
tiop 5000 n.s and ler friends and
. ayCC9i,-H ,-H..: r.ar Tad Dc fageti0us
Friends aud aa.aHnn.s Invariably
ask 1... 9..." tHar Hra we'll enough
. arg.umu. Dfia him. whether be is
harl ov -u4 bottled ar fried ar s.ram-
/ 1lad. ur wnn.har Ha is ".l oa one
! side or both sides. or whether he is