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Show l'ruirr ."samrs. Whether It Is well to keep nslnglo nnmo In a family for generation after generation may bo doubted from sc-iralpolnl sc-iralpolnl of low, bnt certainly this multiplication of Georges nnd Williams Is confusing nnd of small ullllt). Voting Ocorgo nml old Oeorgo intnrialily result re-sult from tho fond parent's ileslro to Jicrpetunto his own nunc, nnd mi eiKclal good comes about in n majority of ciais. I.tt un hao a liioio reason iblo selection tint Is now ctistomnr). Wo need n Matthew Arnold to inveigh ngninst onr "uninteresting" jiersnnnl names as w ell nstliOKOof our towns and cities. Tho luiutal liHnllixrlty and laziness that has nittcrcd leiikinsvlllni nnd Joiustowns, Homers mid Mrglls indiscriminately over the map of tho United States Is (Imply una jur Willi Hint which set ma totnko tho namo that conies handlist for the Indhlltial of oerysucceidlng generation, Awny wllh Angellnu nnd (Jlnd)sontho one hand nnd wllh Mil-Hides Mil-Hides and (lershom on tho otln r, nnd let ns hnio instead tho good old Kngllsh names of Arthur and Harold perhaps, and the llilillc.il names Esther and Itutlu l'rovldtnco Journal, |
