The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1920-01-24
WHAT'S IN A NAME?
BY JENNIE LITTLE

! remember just how the rain drfr
pe'' urIpred, menotonouSIy down ,ba
2! u"'' IN an aggravating manner wbfc,
~ S''ll'e" o" threaten Il shall keen if II,
81 ''i' your nerves are on edge. or Won
II spirits down in zero" and FOL, ,ho.
II u dldh need 10 perSeyere mud, -.
1. summer vacation had begun but
L "iat was the use Of being released
I 'I"ih drilling tiresome children and
! wi 'e'''u- examination papers. if there
| WIS ho'hIng better in sight?
| NO. l may as We'll confess and cot
| II over. Up to that time nor = ecro,,
| VI excitement, adventure or romance
nau ever come into my life. and If
was my thirty-ffth birthday, But
"hat could you expect from Main
Pro>y creature. handicapped from the
yer! start with the name of AueIio
pump! suppose the Bump was in
eV!tahle, seeing that | had no choice
in the matter of ancestors bu+ e,,ra,,,
my dear parents bump of wisdom
had been ever so slightly develoDed
they would have offset il with n lovely
front name like Evelyn, Sylvia or Dor.
is
Even Caroline might have heen
transformed into CAROLYN. and ,torv
Jane INTO Marie Jean. or May Janette.
our not letter in the alphabet could
| aineliorate the misery of being chris
tened Amelia. No young man couId |
De expected TO choose as his mariner |
at the merrymakings a yirI who had |
neither, money, beauty or briIIiance IN
take the sting from that hardly SIM.
pressed smile when he introduced NV
lr.ehd' MISS Bump" Why. even nv
scholars made puns about It.
ana so when the old folks died and
ieIt me little besides the old home
win not near relative i'm the world
IL just ;eemed natural that sbouId
settle down for keeps. in the roIa of
OLD maid country school teacher Nat.
uraily it happened that sometimes
that starved youth in me cIafnored for
recognition, and raised riots, as to-
day. " ~
II was the annual county fair and
nad watched them all 90 bv in their I
'nifiihg buggies and autos-sweet- O
hearts young married couples. and l,
ahiiles, till Ii seemed that Door c
Amelia Bump was the only solitary Der C
oh IN the village. II had been a Der d
ect morning. and now I felt a touch d
L savage satisfaction that the rain IL
you'd spoil their pleasure. until I re-
neIhDered that blizzard may seem v,
May day If only you are with some fl
ne you love. Oh! was in tune with b,
he weather, all right. te
And then my ears caught the roaring st
um OF an airplane. nearer. nearer gr
n6elievably near. raced 70 the door TO
tlme to see something like a giant pr
ounded bird swooping down on the an
z meadow below the house. Crasbr pc
hen my curiosity carried me on fly. of
z feet 10 the spot. whore a figure re- WI
mbiing an armOred knight in goggles tiy
cked himself up with dazed Iool,
% Dent over another PROSTATE form ar!
ter hasty examination no turned jeC
me. as | stared. open-mouthed. rae
rough luck Came through the ito
r Without smash, and now brok. ma
leg and perhaps worse. for this lit Sta
testing trip. Accident to engine spo
we couldn't make a right landing uV'
lere's "A doctor?" l9O
Believe me. had little time to 10
STE sympathizing with myself the
OF the day. He was badly hurt IN.
the doctor and nurse settled him
NY little sunny guest room, so long
bout a guest. sex
he holidays few on wings bod ION
interest in life, and the neighbors doa,
~ seemed TO include me in their a..
rest In him. But the blow had m D.,
Inc day that he was able to be ca,s
ed out on the piazza. he turned a cans
BUS face to me. -,
iere | am. nearly well enoupb to
E. and have never asked your
E. yet 1t seems that must have ~
Fn 1t always. We have grown TO be ~
friends"
H. no. l gulped, "you couldn't
IL In a lifetime. It's Bump~ Man
fairly glared at him as I braced
thdt amused smile.
IL seemed to make absolutely no
assfon on him. for he went on
your first name?"
:, all you ROsaIies and Mariories
are my feelings as blurted out.
matches the other-just Amelia NJ,
ow hate it," Niau
has s
gave me such a queer look of hos h.
e ,i,ieiia: ne repeated, "a dyi
: "a VI nearing me Alright. ical el
II best of all the names in the cafe u
ior IL was my moth the Iii
Since she died, I've been the The "
ST fellow alive" LoneIyl And tionshi
hero. There were two and OK
II seeineu' valuabl
T, all thls happened weeks ago, of Spa
uay as write, across the table an onl
aviator, the man of the house relative
e 10 recognize grammar rule ShOu
ebra sign when meet them. receive.
loved and unwanted Amelia stating
has made her exit forever, and
lieut.. Victor Fairfax has come
own. Isn't 1t glorious name? ~~~'
n is dripping monotonousIy. but ! o6O
iinlng dafodils." and all the !
5, and magic, and joy. in this
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