Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-07
HOW MRS. BOY AND THE LITTLE
BOYS ALL BECAME BOY-EDS
Mystery of Hyphenated German Name Solved-Ances
tors We're Boys-and Girls-But They Were
Not Personae Non Gratae

1852 She had ambitions. did Ida Ed. She
was not going to be an ordinary, common
place newspaper person like Papa; noth-
ing like that; she would be n really truly
authoress, who would write novels that
would be so filed with breathless interest
as to keep you UP nights, devouring every
word until you reached the end This idea
was non grata to Papa, who frowned
upon 1t; but Ida was not to be denied
the artistic career her German and Swed-
ish heart had set upon, and against the
wishes of her parents she took n course
in literature in Lubbock, which Is on the
border line between Schleswig- -Holstein
and Mecklenburg.
WON A BOY.
Hero Ida not only imbibed the ways
and means to write novels, but she lost
her heart to Carl Cspelled with a G. not a
ID, j. Boy a German who came honestly
by his surname. which the musty tones
previously mentioned prove to be true
German name, derived in the curious and
fascinating way common to names from
similarly pronounced yet differently spell
ed names in other tongues. In Flemish it
Is Boey and sometimes Bouy; In Dutch,
Boye and Boow, all of which are related
to the English Boyce and the Celtic and
Gaelic Boyd which means fair-haired
(another hyphen) and yellow haired.
Ida Boy, nee Ed, and her husband Carl
j. Boy, had four children, oil born III
Lubbock, where the family lived, Ida writ
ing novels and Carl being engaged in
trade, since he is designated a ''mer-
chant"
The first child was Rosa, the third
Walter, the fourth Emil Marquard, all of
whom never stood i'm the limelight. But
the second child and first son was Karl
Boy, born in 1872, the Christian name
spelt with q K, not G like his fathers ,
4 T. .1.,g II Ia
out any hyphen, did he go to school and
eat his pumpernlCkeL
In the meanwhile, Ida, his mother, had
reached fame as novelist within the
borders of her native land. Some thirty
books came from her prolific pen. some
Of them ambitious, Judging from their
titles, since witness THE Abysses Of
Life" (something of the prophetic in
thaU, Masks" Grown of Thorns,"
Men of the Times" and Leah and
Rachel" to cite n catholic few.
ADDED A HYPHEN
Here comes upon the scene the hyphen
that inspired all this.
Ida Boy. authorcss, known to German
fame, sat home in Lubbock one day about
IL years ago, thinking of her Swedish
father and his German newspaper career.
Perhaps she thought too, of his opposi-
tion to her embracing literature as n
career, and although he was dead, con-
ceived the idea of giving his name the
her maiden name place in the little hail
of fame she had made for herself through
her married name.
| SO she peut.Oned the city fathers of
| Lubbock. who it seems are designated the
Senate of T,ubeck," to tack on with a
| hyphen, her maiden name OF Ed to her
! married name of Boy.
| Legally, through the proper documents,
inis was proclaimed abroad throughout
| the land, making Mrs Boy and all the lit
| t'c Boys tone of whom was a girD Boy
Eds.
Thus Karl, who became a naval officer.
| ana later an attuChe to the German t.m-
| bassy in WashinEton became too. the
| hyphenated Karl Boy-Ed. who, hyphen,
| record and all. has become a person not
pleasing to our United States.