Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-29
ANDREW AND IMOGENE
BY ROE FuLKERSON.

'Mary Clements was over here all after
noon with her baby" said Imogene, happily,
"and he is the darlingest boy you ever saw.
She had him christened last Sunday and they
have given him name so his initials will
be c. C. G. His name is Clarence Claude"
Andrew laughed uproariously.
"What are you laughing at?" asked
Imogene
"That joke of a NAME" .;rined Andrew.
with a name like that the kid ought to
grow up and make ONE nice girl good
wife"
"He's boy, I told you," said Imogene In
dgnant.
sThat won't last long with name like
that" replied Andrew. He will learn to do
tattin', play the piano and lot of things
like that with tho. two nam IS hung to him.
ellis dad is crippled il the face you know;
just suppose Clarence Claude TTaws up with
the same cross LetWeen Ewynplain and
gargoyle face his dad wears, won't he be cute
with that monake-?
81 don't see what's the matter with women
hanging a name like that on to a he-kid
to fight through the world with"
'Why I think both are pretty names. II
I had a boy 1 would call him Clarence"
sNot on your life' said Andrew, with
emphasis. 1--WE would name him Bill, Dick,
Tom, Jim or something like that which PEG.
pie could call him without running all his
chances of success in the world"
at tell you he shall be named Clarence"
snapped Imogene, "men with names like Bill
and Jim play poker and join lodges and little
boys named Tom and DICK play MONKEY from
school and fight"
"Sure they do" said Andrew. "That's tho
reason I am going to name him one OF those
names. They are normal, natural boys who
are later able to fight their way to the top
of the heap and who get somewhere in the
That'
''Now, Andrew, don't be stubborn" said
Imogene being calm with an effort which
was very evident. 'No child OF mine shall
ever go through life with name like
prizefighter or a .asebaH player, 80 you had
as we'll make up your mind to 1t right now"
Gwen if you do call me stubborn and say
I am bullheaded, it is Bill, just the same"
Il did not call you bullheaded," cried
Imogene. 81 never used such low, common
expression in my life.
$50 I am low and common, am II" s&ad
Andrew. II guess that's the reason like
the nam Bill.
81 did not say you were low and common"
said Imogene, with half-sob.
''You said the expression 'buliheaded' was
low and common, and used 1t so that makes
me low and common, does it not? 1t does, II
I understand the language OF the land In
which we live" Andrew was angry and show
ed it. "There are just few things will not
stand for and one OF them is any retlectlon
ON nv breeding"
IT did not say anything as nasty as that"
said Imogene, white-lipped; "but I will say
that I think any one who would call his own
son any such odious name as Bill has low
tastes"
''Bill he shall be, just the same" snapped
Andrew. ,.u
"He will be Clarence" retorted ImCgene.
''The very idea of your calling sweet little
rosey-cheeked baby, Bill"
81 tell you," said Andrew, wrathfully, Il
! will have my way in this. I am not going to
let any fool woman's notions prevail"
$50 am a fool, am II" asked lmogene'
sobbing.
Andrew looked at her a moment with dis.
tress in his face, and this slowly changed
into a smile and then he laughed heartily.
She raised her tear-stained face and, looking
| into his, said: -AraT
"You are a heartless man."
"Yes," grinned Andrew, "and childless
one I'll tell you what I will do, will let
you call every one Of our children Clarence.
GAIL right" said Imogene, Laughing
through her tears, call but one-he shall be
| Bill"
Copyright, 1929