The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-13
Over the Nuts and Wine 4:
BY FRANCES coURTENAY BAYLOR
nan.ioally tragic "Panse and reflect"
n1ipht To hn the tnrnffn OF ALI Vnllny

mantioaily tragic. "Panse and reflect"
ought to be the motto OF all young
parents about to confer names upon
the dear little innocents lying In tncit
arms. There rs II family or "Iurnlp-
seous. . IN inns county; was u q jose
lnotner "supcrpne' ana another carry
assured" ana another Late supern"?
Not n bit OF 1t. 1t was an outrage!
When All Texas was IN great exciae-
tnent over the question OF Joining tue
Union, wat did an innkceper 10 nut
name his daughter .'AnneAatlon-on-
Any.Terms Pettus,' 1rate,crs were
greatly ainuseq. The Inn may have
Lee! bo ,tl,,is but the ch,ln? Good
enoegn to near in this world wltnout
struggling aiong for half Il century
lnuer name IKE that, f1eaven KNOWS.
1t is a problem, l grant, almost equnl
70 the negro problem TO Know what TO
do with names That represent not olliy
families but trioes, species, almost ma
tons. rake smith, for instance Mark
twain dedieateu one OF his books TO
Jonn SMITH, hoping that he would buy
q copy and make MIN a millionaire a {
least MIR. Lowell mad a convection,
that no delightfully."- expounied and
Illustrated, that the English We're one
OF the Lost Tribes of Israel He gave
a thousand excellent reasons for be-
lieving so. too. But when found III
holy Writ, IN all the land Of Israel
tt..ere was no smith," copied the para
graph and sent 1t to him as conclusive
bic at all. and he agreed that he should
have to aoandon 1t forever.
Ingenuity.
There is really an immense amount
could be better employed. In the hum
bier walks of life mothers search Wild
ly through the few books they can find
Tor agreeable suggestions, with, very
curious results. ono woman took her
baby to Bishop Chase to be christened
and at the tont she astonishcd the
congregation, the clergy and the choir
boys by reeltng off as fiuently as pos
sible. in high nasal voice, Marcus
Caesar Asrip ua'e Gracehi u where ay,as
the bishop frowned. tut. tut, my good
Woman, with your heather nonsenae:
Peter. baptize thee" and SO on.
AS she was removing the small red
done got one Peter already" But that
didn't. matter in the least The deed
was done. and she had two Christian
rolled into one boy. sydney Smiths
parochial rule was to give the far
mers' babies "a dose of castor oil and
y biblical name" Then they are ready
for any world" he cheerfully remarked
to his bishop. All his Christianity
was of the same cneer1u1. witty pat
tern. was once travelling In the
hackwoods of Alabama with friend
from New Orleans, a sister of General
Beauregard. About midnight a LITTLE
by each hand. The party brought up
on the sofa near us. SO Madame Dol
houde politely asked the children's
names. This one, tpointing to this
Joseph Edward Malcolm Norton Gun
ter said the proud mother. "And the
little girl?' inquired madame. Mary
Josy1ne Rhody Katherine Benjamine
FRANKLIN Palestine Gunter,'' said Mrs.
Gunter. We made her. repeat the In
credible tale. We asked her where she
had found such names. 81 hunted 'em
up, she replied: you see, ] had moth
in else to give my children. SO
give EN- plenty of names. Palestine Is
much for Madame Dolhoude. Sha
laughed. uproariously for her. She got
out pencil and tablet and wrote
down the names. made two copies. and
gave, me one. and we both signed both
papers. Nobody will ever believe us.
we must have the certificat e," she said
sun, " is not as remarkable as "Ponti.
lex MaSimus Dardanelles Henry Clay
the burden laid on another child. Con-
science, that austere and sleepless
safeguard of character" ought to pro-
tect any and every baby from being
PiaSaIueu lOf lie Win any abSurdtty
whatever. The classical and geograph-
ical merits of such'a name are patent.
but the propriety OF it is quite an
other thing. Luckily. the mother was
a kentuckian, and she stuck in that
Henry Clay. Her maternal compass.
sion foresaw "Ponty" or ,,Dardy'' in o
distant future. The negroes have
great talents for nomenclature. One
Of my cooks had two children, whom
she had named. respectively, Candy
Doll' and Wheeler Wilson Grant Lin
KUN Prosody Syntax Sessums" A lit.
tie knowledge had proved dangerous
thing as usual. Candy Doll was
noted for two things, her care OF her
compleXion and her passion for wa
termelon. She took pills daily for
three years. and being asked why, re-
piled: Fur straight NEE hair and fur
wife NEE skin and fur maxi mee rich,
sos Ill never wuk fur nobody s'lons
as live. Wen Mammy's cookin'
don never miss dayl DEFY cos dol,
lar de bottle" She was delighted al
ways when she could combine both
her careers. and having eaten half
a melon, could wash her face with
the rnd and improve her skin. The
embodiment Of Prosody and Syntax
was quite evidently born and reared
with view to being hanged, unless
nercifully saved from it by an acci-