Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-10
TWO MEN SWAP NAMES
TO ESCAPE GYPSY CURSE

not Glenwood and never was. I lied
to you when I tol& you it was. I
came back here expressly to find
you and release you from your pact
and to advise you to change your
name again.
y what I told you about the gypsy's
curse was true, except that she did
not tell me that I could be relieved
of the curse only by getting some
one else to take my name. What
she did say was that if I would in
vent some name and put a curse on
it, wishing the curse on with the
proper emphasis, and then get some
one else to adopt that name the
curse would leave me and follow the
name I had selected"
Glenwood rather b1enched at that,
for he had not bargained on taking
on a curse. SURPRISING his indig-
nation, however, and reflecting that
if a jinx had been wished on him it
had not got to going yet, for no mis-
fortune had befallen him, he babe
the mysterious stranger proceed with
his tale.
''The reason Z told you to wait a
year before taking the name of
Rex Glenwood," the former curse
toter went on, twas because want
ed to be sure of effectually fixing
the curse on you in accordance with
the gypsy's directions. I figured that
a year ought to be ample time for
getting it properly set. I spent
that entire year cursing the name
of Rex Glenwood. I cursed it for
breakfast dinner and supper, on
going to bed and on getting up and
constantly between times. When
ever I had nothing else to do would
concentrate with all my mental pow
err and curse the name of Glen
wood.
"Now," the strager concluded,
"the gypsy told me that if at any
time within five years the man who
had assumed the name had wished
the curse on should again change
his name the curse would lose all
it's potency and would be at an end
for all time. That is why I have
hunted you up-to put you wise so
you may change your name again
and evade the curse"
Saying which, the stranger turned
on his heel and disappeared.
Five years! The time would be up
September 10, 1922. No time to
lose! So thought Glenwood He told
his story to G. A. Ginter, a Cincin.
natl attorney, who filed an applica-
ton for the change of name in the
probate court. This application
must be published at certain pre-
scribed intervals for thirty days, at
the end of which time, if no good
reason be presented to forbid, Glen
wood will be entitled to use his new
moniker.
That name is Nicholas Merrijune.
nicholas came easy enough,
Glenwood explained. Il always DID
like that name. It has a sort OF
classy sound For a time, however,
I was up against it for surname.
Then one day heard somebody say
something about the merry month OF
June, and it came TO me just ike
that-Merrijune.
"Are YOU superstitious?" a nosey
arenorter asked Mr.. Glenwood.
mot a Bit" replied the young man
sporting curse.
"Then why are you having your
name changed again?"
II just want to be on the safe
side"
All this sounds like a folk tale of
the middle ages. If any one doubts
it's 1922 authenticity he will find 1t
all set down in the records OF the
Hamilton county probate court.
"In this enlightened age it seems
impossible that such superstition
should exist said William II. Lue-
dnrs Judge of that court.