The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-07-31
YOUR FIRST NAME

Sophia. Sophy, Hugh, Hugo and HUI
bert, names of wisdom and thought
have endured since the days when
Greek was the language of early Chris
tendon and the Teuton nations were
forming.
The first Sophia was Greek saint,
"Sophia. or wisdom, says the Greek
rendering of Jhe book of Ecclcsiastes, is
the mother of faith and hope and holy
fear; and probably, with this passage
as foundation, there arose n traditional
Santa Sophia, who had three daughters,
and who was so greatly revered in the
east that the most beautiful church in
Constantinople-now a mosque-was
dedicated to her.
The first Hugh was the Teutonic ra-
ven Huginn, or thought. who sat on one
of the shoulders of the supreme god
Odin. and with the assistance of an
other raven, Muninn,, on the other
shoulder, told Odin all that went on
in the world
The descendants or namesakes of the
wise and shadowy saint and the
thoughtful raven have been men and
women worthy such learned ancestors,
Though some of them have not been
especially noted for their wise and
thoughtful lives, they have on the whole
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learning of the world.
Among royal men Of the name Hugh
Capet, who founded the Capetian dy-
nasty OF kings in France almost
thousand years ago, holds high place.
TO be sure. one OF the early Capetian
kings said that he had grown gray
while trying to capture castle with,
in sight of Paris, his capital and
charged his son TO finish the CONQUEST.
But though their power was limited,
and though the kingshiD they adorned
was at first hardly more than title,
they were among the first of the long
line of kings who made France one of
the strongest and most interesting mon
archies of later times.
Hugh of Avranches, Earl of Chester,
nephew of William the Conqueror. who
the taking of England in 1066, was
called Hugh the Fat because he had
such big appetite, He was a great
lover of sport, and among some of the
people over whom he had dominion, and
who did not like his savage and bolster
Gus manners, it was said that Hugh
one night stabbed his hounds in the
church of st, Tyfrydog, in Wales, and
the next morning found them all stark
mad
Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, called
Good Duke Humphrey-he was really
anything but good-was the son Of
Henry ". Of England, and was born
in 1891, HIS gracious manner and i'm
pulsiveness made him very popular with
his friends He used to ask any one he
found lettering in the neighborhood of
st. Paul S cathedral. IN which locality
he lived. home to dinner, Hence the
proverb, "To dine with Duke Hum
phrey,' which means TO wait about
dinnerless in hope of an invitation. In
1889 Humphrey gave hundred and
twenty nine books to Oxford, and later
added others. And although he himself
did not possess enough learning TO
make the selection of the books him
self-he left that to his physician-his
gift formed the foundation Of the great
library,
There have been royal Sophies, too
Several early empresses of the east
were named for the popular saint. An
other royal woman of the name was tho !
margraving of Bayreuth,
whose philanthropic nature and literary
efforts brought her more than usual
fame Some of the hymns which she