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Show CATHOLIC MOTHERS SHOULD READ THIS. Did it ever occur to you how the saints' names are vanishing from our American Catholic families? fami-lies? Think of the absurdity of Pearl Mai oney Olive Finnegan, Chester O'Neill, etc.; conferred' too, by a seemingly sensible Irish mother not always al-ways by the giddy girl with bleached hair and abbreviated ab-breviated apparel infatuated with the hero or heroine of some silly novel or of the stage. Is it possible that they cannot find a' suitable name from one in their immediate family whom they looked upon with love and respect? Whose name they wished to perpetuate! "O, the mtv of it!" .. v. Can there be anything sweeter than the name of many, if called Mary, not May or Mae, as we see it frequently written? Elizabeth,' Catherine Margaret, Mar-garet, John, Paul,: Timothy, Thomas. Philip and Daniel irrespective of religious significance, what more musical names could be found? Exchange |