Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-01-19
DIDN'T LIKE
HIS NAME

SANt Vi appalling.
Il am sure" she said on this occar
StOn. that Mr.. Campayns-smith has .
r-fsct right TO DO as he choosssl"
TeSn she marched out Of the room.
"CAmpaynS-smithv B0h!" bArksd
Aunt Amelia
When q woman has so much money
mat she could run coupons through .
chopper and use them for breakfast
good abe can bark II she chooses, SO
HsEefs mother held her peace.
Before Aunt Amelia had arrived fOg
visit HaEel's family had not been IN
the least upset by Thomas CAmpayRS-
Smith. It was merely a plessurSbis
novelty to know q young man with .
hyphenRtSd name. Just MI. Smith"
aroused no nutter, but whom you SAID,
MT. CSmpayne-Smith" you felt that
you really had said something. How
ever, the young man was we'll bred
and quite harmless-the kind that you
never think about twice. Hazel her
self never took the trouble to put on
her best gown when he was coming,
so one can readily see that there was
no reason for any one o'get excited
about his visits
But at the very start Aunt Amelia
had appeared vastly irritated at his
name.
81 hate afrectation!" Aunt Amelia
had declared.
Tut that's his name!" said Hazel,
in oite surprise.
e! 1dlesticks!" retorted her aunt.
mo human being ever was born with
a h. len in his name. He just stuck
1t il . try to be fashionable! It's as
bad IS mans signing himself w.
Henry Jones, instead of William II.
Jones' l don't like 1t. You'll do we'll
to drop him, Hazel, for any man can't
amount to a row of pins Juggling
around a name like that"
At this, of course, Hazel instantly
was converted into a most ardent
champion of the abused and despised
-Campayne-Smith and cherished him
with great tenderness. Whenever he
appeared upon the scene or was even
mentioned a battle began.
'Ts Mr.. Smith coming this EVENING""
Aunt Amelia would inquire.
Then her niece would raise her eye
brows inquiringly. oh" she would
say, sweetly, after having thought,
you mean Mr.. Campayne-Smith,
iaunty? Yes, he is coming"
81 mean nothing of the sort!" Aunt
Amelia would declare. II mean that
Smith man. just as I said"
Then Hazel's mother would hastily
turn the conversation into some other
channel.
Good evening, Mr.. Smith," Aunt
Amelia would say later on.
Mr.. Campayne-Smith aunty," Hazel
would say, in an undertone.
81 said Smith," Aunt Amelia would
repeat loudly and coldly, whitening the
,possessor of the disputed name with a
look
AS for CampayneSmith, he appeared
to take Aunt Amelia's attitude as a
mild sort of joke. Nobody had ever
before objected violently to his name.
II don't know what l can do about
it." he said one evening TO Hazei after
Aunt Amelia had been particularly
pointed in her disapprobation. Il
might chop out the hyphen with an
ak, onlyit's really so harmless!"
"Your name Is perfectly lovely!"
Hazel declared. You leave it alone!"
She felt a protecting interest in the
name which she had been defending,
and the interest spread to its owner.
She was surprised that she had never
discovered before what a particularly
fine young man young Campayne-
Smith was despite the fact that he
didn't make a great surface showing.
Aunt Amelia stayed a month and
the night before she left Campayne-
Smith happened to call.
Good evening. Mr.. Smith," she
said.
"Campayne-smitk. aunty." Hazel
prompted, mechanically.
Smith, / said" repeated Aunt
Amelia as usual. 1t appeared to in
furiate her that the young man only
smiled at her blandly.
Hazel" she told her niece when
she babe her good-by, II always In
tended to do something handsome for
you when you married. but II you
marry that Smith map, who has to tie
his name together with a ribbon bow.
tie quite likely that I'll do otherwise"
Six months later Hazel and Cam
,payne-smith got married. It would
not have been human nature for them
20 have done otherwise. After they
returned from their wedding trip and
were getting settled in their new fat