Show I Ur izABEll CADY ANTON I STARTS A NEW CRUSADE th ¼ r tr 1 1 ICOI 1 Tells Her Sex They Must Not Marry Men With Ugly Names Must Refuse to Marry Unless Euphony Comes by h Inheritance or Suitors Change Their Names by Act 1 Itht I d J Legislature I I < l Ld 1 f I I Now York Oct 10W must rafuso to marry men with objectionable I cognomens This is a strong statement It invites criticism A crusade cru-sade along these lines will work wonders for the happiness of women All vulgar flat silly names should be abjured and it rests with women t wo-men to do this work I repeat we m ust refuse to marry men with objectionable objec-tionable cognomens ns they can be legally changed by a simple act of the legislature and thus save their wives and daughters from being g1 mortified and ridiculed all their days as Hoggs Cnxbbs and Bulls If mch proud of some old ancestor would dig round tim roots of II their ancestral trees they might end in n snag as I did in tracing tho origin of Cncly found my ancestors quiet conservative people never protesting against gross injustice or absurd customs As I went on step by step I found the y changed Into ClC until at last in the reigruof Henry Io VIII Jack Cade loomed up and was hung for heading an Insurrection t against the Government There hns not been a Cady sinco who has dared to protest against outrageous injustice or absurd customs until I appeared on the planet and one thimbleful Jack Cades blood filtered through several generations gen-erations has kept me protesting ever since I began to seeThe see-The first right every woman should have is an individual name during J j dur-ing life and the next a voice in the laws and lawmakers under which at sIto lives Sty early blunder was in perpetuating my fathers instead of I ft mothers name csc How much moro dignified Mrs Elizabeth Livingston Stanton would have sounded When we see what absurd names custom has perpetrated under a male 1 ri dynasty it is time for the mothers of the race to inaugurate new system e sys-tem in naming tho sons and daughters of the future generations hand f ing down beautiful dignified euphonious names The fathers like medical students in cemeteries have heretofore CcL moused around tombstones for the names of dead ancestors and fcave given us such cognomens ns Bull Hogg Catt Crabb Cobb Cruikshanks ii Hoar Croker Fish Bugg Budd etc and Christian names to match such i as Job Esau and Ichabod 1 4l ran And think of girls graduating from college being registered on the anl calendar as Dolly Molly Polly Kit tic Rosle and Pinkie Again think of two beautiful gl rls in muslin dresses and blue satin lm sashes announced by the usher at a London reception In stentorian I tones as the Misses Bull or the Misses Cruikghanksl rdg I have been announced on such occasions and to a large audience in St Jamess Hall as Mrs Elizabeth Caddy Stanton and am yet liv r op ing to tell the story opELECfj ELIZABETH CADY STANTON nriTnl |