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Show I Saving the Wife's Name. Chivalrous beyond tho high depreo of chivalry usually accorded to Arncrl-can Arncrl-can men is tho character- ot Rev. George Franklin Hopkins of Wnsh-lnKton. Wnsh-lnKton. D. C. Ho admits the superiority su-periority of his wife, her broad claims to recognition and her remarkable ouccoes In tho world. As a maiden sho had gained for herself a namo and wortny fnmc. Sho wanted to mnrry, but did not wish to loflo her name, nor did sho wish to retain It simply as a nom do plume. On her marriage, however, Miss Armstrong Arm-strong accepted without protest tho name of her husband, but sho coon found her work hampered by tho change. It Is well known that tho good reputation of a business busi-ness man Is one or his most valuablo assets, as-sets, and tho saino Is truo of women In their lino of work. Thcso good people, however, finally solved tho difficulty by hyphenating tbelr names Ar.mstrong-Ilopklns. Ar.mstrong-Ilopklns. The husband Is happier for wearing tho glory his wife has earned, and tho wlfo has ht;r husband's namo without losing her own. Tho giving up of her name on marriage has been a serious matter with many an advanced woman who did not llko to merge her personality In that of a man, not even of tho man sho loved enough to marry Tucy Stono solved tho problem by retaining her namo Just iim her husband hus-band retained his. But tin? question comes, Why should she object to hor husband's namo moro than that of her father? No name that sho might retain, howevor far sho might go back for a surname, but would be other than that of a man. Sho might ns well then adopt tho namo of her husband na that of nny of her male progenitors. Perhaps the hyphenated namo is going to meot nil objections. It is ugly nnd awk; wnrd and likely to lead to confusion, but. on tho other hand, It shows a wonderful harmony between husband and wlfo. If tho process is kept up genornllon after generation thero will bo somo long names, but ono'a genealogy will be recognized by everybody who takes tho trouble to exam-Ino exam-Ino Into tho matter carefully, Whoro divorces aro frequent In a fam ily this method of retaining names might sometimes prove embarrassing, but that would bo "only a matter of detail," ns tho Socialists say, and tho difficulties could bo met as- occasion requires. On tho whole Dr. nnd Mrs. Arinstiong-Hopklna Arinstiong-Hopklna have sot a lino example, for their friends, and it Is to their credit that they otand before thu world In loving unison. Tho combined names glvn eclat and distinction dis-tinction and ought to be a slgnHlcant help to tho work In which each Is engngea.lBM Chicago Chronicle. ' 7I1 |