Show WHAT TO CALL THE BABY the names molly and polly annie and nan maggie and nancy and wan nan are just as much in vogue to day as in the olden time and in all probability will continue to be given as christian names to baby girls tor for alt all time says the new york world we do not find french women taking their ancestors ancestor to task for bestowing upon poll them ungainly names for the taste of the french in names Is proverbial there Is no in the french tongue when they tired of 0 mary ma IT they c hanged changed it to the sweet name marle marlc ann became annette Annc tte sprightly and bright some persons refuse to gle ghe first names to their children preferring that the children should choose their own names it la Is often a positive handicap to a man of parts to have a In name in many cases ignorant parents have gone wrong in their selection of catnes for their offspring and more than once a a girl baby has been called jezebel and a boy ananias the rev hev james B walley a methodist minister who nho preached many years car in new york told with great enjoyment of a lisping mother who took her baby to the font in the church to be baptized and christened when the hie divine took I 1 it t in his arms preparatory to christening I 1 ng it he asked the lisping mother what lie he should name it the parent replied luel thir indignantly the min minister loter remarked Lu lucifer elfer lucifer never will I 1 name a child that then he continued as lie he sprinkled the water upon the brow of the girl baby geoage washington I 1 baptize thee etc and the girl was thereafter so called it Is a fact that fashion in names changes in cycles beyries ol of less than a century at present there seems to be a tendency toward odd names some of the popular ones are dorothy rhoda edna anil and angeline ada Is quite common and almira comes down it 11 would appear from the countey towns to adorn cit city Y beauties agatha viola maude jessle jessie olga odette olive inez isabel hortense rosalind beatrice naomi alg nit non mildred lillian leonora kathleen ida estelle gertrude gladys grace genevieve Genev leve Gabri gabriella elia henrietta edith felice fedora frederica eunice florence edolsa emmeline cora cynthia clop Cord cordelia clia Bue buelah lali dertha bertha blanche ruth Vo veronica ronica a are 0 among the hundreds of uncommonly c odd ild names chosen not only for their oddness but for their euphoniousness as well alle their meaning adds interest to them jhc thc m arid and makes the burden of their weight an easy loal load to carry A mother times delights in perpetuating petua ting t the he name of her grandmother who bore the name of lie her r great grandmother and thus these very old names name descend by the choi of the parent ann nowa nowadays daws sounds harsh and betsy seems common betsy conics comes to be bessie and an ann n annie and an instance Is known of mindwell having the audacity to call herself minnie jerutha has printed on her visiting cards jennie and mehitable Mehl table loves to I 1 hear I 1 ear herself styled hilly |