Show I J Ill Girls Names Il Ij I TO k New York Sun1 I J Fashion changes for names 01 It loss t I for clothes und ta the collector or the t N f 04 rr I tw ner an gl 3t sciences that constitute of mooted ogy nd of culture history names as Well WI Old shoes and broken crock ory are of Importance as throwing 4 Mimi 4 A I light on the state of civilization of a country it hive been written on I Ihe nme 17 alcnt at different times In Valli us placer and whole book on trahift their origin anti lgnJJ1ran An Inquisitive psarber for materials has investigated In first catalogue of young women studlnR at HadcllfT college meri ti y IJuullhd still uhat he hns found out may prove of interest In showing what names wo actually give our alrli There Are 413 ot these young persons all belonging to n narruis So tlon 01 the country New England and the neighboring middle states no only 37 urn from tho V4 or South Boston with the towns within easy reach by railroad In I the home of the greater number Thdy are presumably all between be-tween the ages of eighteen And twenty two or 1hree Vents so that their given names Indicate the tat tit their sponsors About twenty yeirs ago Their family names of course are or no Importance as theIr parents cannot be blamed for hem and besides we mut assume that lh so young women will have the opportunity to charm their Inrt names If they do not Ilk them while It in I unusual to chang a Christian I name Several things attract notice I In the nadcllffe HP One Is I the snrUI number num-ber 01 Christian names only 6 among 413 girls which gives only ono plrM In three a second name This Is I In I marked contrast with the Europe practice no selfrespecting French or IttIlan parent would think of bestowIng bestow-Ing less than half a dozen names on his hlld while the Portuguese allowance Is I a dozen and for inincesselm same times reaches two dozen 00 the AI mina le Cloths shows The vvMct of names too Is I very small there beIng be-Ing only 120 tu divide amonr them nil Ann t tier noticeable fart Is I the Scarcity o pet names and dimlnutvs there are hit nlyIo And the lumber ot curious ro moUon apparently or homo manufacture 19 I but a dOl or Ito These joung women have been brought uP It would seem to write out their nm In full arid to reserve the forms of drmt for their Intimates The names themselves deserve the attention of prospective parents By far the moil frequent Is I the bestbe loved name throughout Christendom Hary this belongs to one girl In every light or If the forms May and Marloi be Included to more than one In six 1 Next but at a Jong Interval about twenty of inch come Ellrabelh Plan ten Helen Edith Alice then num IJrlnl a cozn or more Anne Rrh Louise MalI Katharine with a IC Caiollne and Charlotte Florence Margaret Mar-garet Harriet and Heart otta and Grace With one or two exceptions these are dignified pleasantsoundlnt English names with no suggestion ot mere picttlness names that their IxisseKsors will find to wear well In thorough tho-rough usage of life as well O In Its sentimental episodes The same can be said of seventy or eighty more nme or I eon frequent occurrence In the list many appearing only once or twice such ns Lucy Emily Dorothy tom Agnes Constance Faith Olive Susan the poet Laura and Beatrice Julia Delia and Celia and quaint old names like Melllccnt and Winifred Merely pretty names are few the cpl cml ot Malitl seems to have bn In full swing twenty yearn ago and there are some Ethels Am > s Estelles Evelyns and Adelines but not many PrOm u lint Itan community an abundance or scripture nm might be expected but they are lacking The Imperious wife of the first patriarch la I the favorite curiously enough then we find a very few of each Martha Abigail Abi-gail In the Bostonese form Abby Esther Eva Ituth Rebecca Miriam Malmla There In I no Hachel or IK horoh or Judith Magdalen 0 favorite name In Catholic countries appears once In the nondescript shape Mgda line A llculah shows that Banyan Is I not wholly forgotten The classics furnish only a Cornelia an Arcthusa and u Euphrosyne I seems strange that these last two names should becharming be-charming when applied to a sauc frigate andyet absurd for an English Inglh speaking girl One Joyful parent ha revived the old Puritan name Delight na Delgh while anotherless fortunately Inspired hiss called Ills iSo lappl Nothing In literature or history can account for Ihew eccentricities Alsora Phllurn Alzorn Phlllnda Fiction Molars Luennal Elva Velmn They must have sounded sound-ed well to some one but It was ciue 10 hII babes to burden them with such names for lire The odrnthr And godmotbers ot the nadOII young Nimen on the Vhrile Kilowatt unusual discretion and I taste Wo dOUbt I many holr Vote Ion cn how fewer Ins of comml |