Show MIDDLE NAMES A MODERN NOTION ancients vote content with a simple mode of distinguishing since the adoption ot of its Cons titu alon in 1777 new boik haa had thirty one governors VOL not one wrote ills middle middie name out in nil full fourteen had no in middle iddle names there never was wai a candidate canin for governor with mith the sin gle exception of john boyd thatcher Thatch cr who nho spread its his name out to tile hie fullest extent and reveled in pride bolten hen ho he looked upon it tu to john lioyd boyd we should feel Ind elated it la Is tile thi literary instinct the cult CUIL of james jamea Rus ruswil wIl lowell lovell henry wadsworth longfellow 1 william cullen bryant rr yant WIlU william LIU GH ill mole moie kamms oliver wendell holmes rentge odgar ornery and laura laur a jean libbey Ll liley which we voe must thank fo for r knol ledge of tile tho coyd boyd in thatchers Thatcher 3 cianic but for tile cut mentioned in the foregoing paragraph barari parari arh me e should probably never have lave inov known n henry cabot lodge lode the handsomest of senators jle ile arnould anould liae been sl raily henry C lodge which sounds strange the swell society set in older to distinguish themselves from men in trade and vo alters in waiting have adopted the first initial and tile the full second name as for instance T suffern Ef J edward simmons simmonii D russell brown 0 vincent collin coffin J warren goddard 3 seaver beavor raire daxe anil and J homer harper bonne the style as 1 to ha have a as rn many any antes as possible so 0 o that if J a ma man n does docs not look like a gentleman and has haa not the mari manners liers of one lie he can redeem I 1 himself 1 af iy ay Y the i respectability of 0 his con A century most mod of 0 the great men of tho ilia world had no middle names there were georke george washington napoleon IR bonaparte na parLe thomas jet je forson john adams adama james jamea madison gerige clinton john jay horran lewis Iner caSO sumner caleb strong isaac wllbur wilbur and fol all tile the rest A middle name was waa a rarity we have among us ua at this thia day not a 0 few ew who have dropped their middle names name for one reason or another charles wallace brooke crooke never forget the wallace says there IF Is no middle name in law new york press prem |