The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-04-20
WEARY OF ODD NAME
Why the Eggs Will Be Ecks Soon
as Easter Is Over.
FOUND THEIR CASING IRKS0mE
Restaurant Man Asked Court to Free
Him and His Wife From Unreiished
@1ts Of Facetious Friends-Says
Hes "oons on Both Sides All Right"

At this season Of the year, will
| eggs leading the batting order at ev
| cry breakfast table and In Il great
many homes playing three games q
day, It seemed particularly apropos
that Mr.. and Mrs. Ulrich Egg Of New
York city should ask Supreme Court
Justice OGOrman for permission t.
LAY" Egg aside aud substitute Eek
They gave 80 many eggcellent reasons
that Justice O'Gorman granted the re-
quest the other day and set April y!
as the date on which they might tear
Oh 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 thlrty-four years, as Egg has
done, 1t 10 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 theft 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 a nervous bridegroom at church
wedding Mrs. Egg presides over a
fashionable dressmaking establish
ment, and she couldn't recall single
instance where her name had helped
her any. She il a handsome woman
and laughed merrily while her hus-
band discussed the situation with a
reporter
1--WE been In hot water ever since
rye had the NAME" said Egg.
Then you must be hard boiled by
this Time" said the reporter.
I'm done on both sides all right"
laughed Egg. ''In Switzerland. where
We come from, the name is pronounced
Dck, and. besides, it has a different
meaning"
How did you come to marry your
husbandr' Nine. Egg was asked.
II was always fond Of Eggs" she
said, and I guess that had something
to do with IT,
I'm pretty much of q nest egg"
was Eggs next contribution. Here his
wife gave her Egg a nudge that
threatened to break 1t.
"Are there any small Eggsr' asked
the reporter. Joining in the cackle.
mot yet" came in chorus. Guess II
~ did have three or four children
we'd b. known as the half dozen
Bess."
II think l better beat it." said the
reporter, before I'm whipped to
fsoth.'
won't you have q little refresh
ment before you go?' asked the boss
Of the house.
III it's oil 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 IKE
your new Manner
ut win be hard getting used to 1t
for awhile, but anything b better than
Eeg. 1 tried the new one on several
fftsads today, and they thought had
~ hiccoughs."
After wishing Mr.. and Mrs. Eek as
much prosperity under their new
name ~ they have had under the old
90 the reporter withdrew, feeling as
though he had been poaching on their
god nature. They live in a flne
'crate" and have the con-
00eoce Of all their neighboes, which is
Dage than some eHgs can boast.
Just one paragraph from the petition
b The court answers Shakespeare's
Qnsey ~ 10 what's In q name:
'.rhat his present name Of Egg
causes him and his wife Z great deal
u trouble and annoyance and humilia-
tion among his and her friends and
Dequalntances: that would be facetiOus
friends and acquaintances Invariably
Ask him, after they are well enough
with him, whether he IL
hard or soft boiled or fried or scram-
bled, or whether he IL fried on one
tide Or both sides. or whether he IL
Dnly IN omelet.
That those acQuaintances who have
l1nce become enemies usually refer to
him - good, bad or rotten. with diff
cerent infections. according as they
aesire to be irOnical. or brutality
hunk. New York World.
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New German Solicitation.
A curious society has recently been
Formed at Darmstadt. IN Hesse. Its
object b to promote the substitution Of |
he military salute for the present |
mode Of salutation among civilians.
Instead Of the present method of rails
ING ones hat. the Hessians-or at least |
/ certain proportion OF them-would
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