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New Zealand Tablet, 25 April 1912, Page 53

Abstinence from low pleasures is the only means of meriting or of obtaining the higher. The Catholic Earl of Denbigh has ten children, three of whom are boys (says the Catholic Columbian). Following the fashion among nobility, each child has three or four given names, but. we notice that every girl in the family has the name ‘ Mary ’ among lier other names. England was once ■ known as ‘ Mary's Dowry. I his Catholic English Earl seems to recognise that fact in the naming of his children.