A garden competition held by the London "Evening Standard" brought out 12,000 competitors, each with a flower garden at home. Gardening interest has reached the peak of popularity in London. Clerks and office workers now speed home from work to put a few touches on the garden. What makes and unmakes fashions in Christian names? How completely the name Emma has gone out. Perhaps the popular song of "Whoa, Emma," sung and whistled everywhere about 40 years ago, had something to do with this, just as "Jemima" was killed when elastic-sided boots were nick-named Jemimas. Percy is a name seldom given to boys nowadays; is it because seaside niggers always address one another as Percy? And Cuthbert? Since this was used as a taunt to fling at young men who got off going to the war, has it been shunned by parents?
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19164, 22 November 1927, Page 2
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142Untitled Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19164, 22 November 1927, Page 2
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