SECOND EDITION NAMING THE CHILDREN.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2743, 7 January 1882, Page 3

SECOND EDITION NAMING THE CHILDREN.

(Detroit Free Press.)

Remember in giving names that the children when grown up may be in situations where they will have frequently to sign their initials, and do not give names that might in this situation provoke contemptuous remark. For instance, David Oliver Green, the initials make “dog Clara Ann Thompson, the initials spell “ cat." If the child is a boy, it maybe equally uncomfortable for him to have a long string of names. Snpposc that in adult. life he becomes a merchant or banker, with plenty of business to do, then ho will noth* cleared to write "George Henry Tiibot Roblnc *1 “ two or throe hundred times a day • It m not. a bad plan d' ;fird. vuly out baptism*’ iuiu:o,_ so '.b;d <f fh-.-v auarv they re-'.iia chti' n.wdf: soiXfiK?*?; oh Eliza bc'A I’."- -ru i>rovffi;t;t, J’f‘ichor . c Vbis _ h tm- +!.-' socktv nt JPrietms, %BQis v/v-lby nf m>.i goneMl sdorb.for \v : 't f ! v;i kfiuw ; it - JT ’ • ■ fe-iing the nr.r-r oi the indy ’.etn.-i >ibf, was married, uritl :c o, what, her '.iifi'ly naan* '<t ,r '■ parent? > o.y Wisely .’«■ bv*- .or “biidrcu ill numa-? sua;••ntitd--- -I". - x+ocoss, thiokiiij-T ■•»d ;i ■. ■ i “ jp. rot h good b; : ,-.f ■ ) • ob’d.-T'loka '--a o , ; d: .. kill'd, ,jt;eV» tA da: v>: , it.i ■ the ’vorid."' V o- bony of our nomeiKi. *.*!»*• ;• greatly a ■ ■■ idcpsion of &*.• V a * }J!l - ;i!; -• the surname. ... i;, ■:*. • 'iTnoi.CMyllfib!'. f-hr. ‘ dr. :■ ‘.cv. itme rinold he long. Nothing can iconcila the ear to snoh curt names as iSarl do i, Luke Harte, Ann Scott; y Pox,’Alexander Harte and 0?OU!ii -icojt are far from despicable. With mo;! a variety of excellent Christian names, it is astonishing that ac, few ike "jo in ordinary use. The dictionaries : ordain lists of about 250 male and 1’ imale names, hut out of these not ban twenty or thirty for ouch ser ir> called at all common.