Show Il i A TIMELY T TOPICS TOPICS t FAMILY NAMES IN THE FUTURE FUTURE- Soon or late we shall have to do som something about the family name assum assuming assuming- g that families are ate to con con- The family name la Js easy while bride assumes a the bridegrooms bridegroom's name But women seem seem to to be develop develop- lug lag discontent with that arrangement An IncreasIng Increasing ing number of brides elect to keep their own names When children come to the husband bearing onename onename one onename name and a a wife bearing another an Inconvenience develops t It stands to reason there should Ue ono one name for the family If It It Is Is unreasonable to i- i require the wife to take the tho he husbands husband's name It is as unreasonable to require the husband to take tale the wife's name Hyphenation has Ita its limitations When Mr Brown Drown marries Miss Smith the family name might become Smith Brown or or Smith Brown Drown TIle That lIttle folks might be John and Jane Smith Brown or Smith Smith- Brown but when John Smith Brown arrles the daughter of ot the hyphenated Whites Jones hyphenation hyphenation tion would require their progeny to be Smith Brown Jones White or the other way about A few generations generations genera genera- of or hyphenation m would carry too far make make- It too clumsy for tor general use What can be done about It With feminism becoming becoming becoming be be- coming more insistent It Is 19 of course useless to suggest that the best thing to do about It t. t Is to let t the e good old wa way go on Buffalo Buffalo Enquirer |