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Show ANCIENT AND MODERN NAMES Writer Contends That Present-Day Appellations Lack.the Euphony of the Olden Times. Speaking of New England names, the genealogical columns of the Transcript Tran-script are indeed a standing proof that the seventeenth and eighteenth century names possessed much more of snap, flavor and euphony than our twentieth century names possess. Pick up the genealogical department depart-ment at random any day and you will find such fine and resonant names as Betsey Keyes. Patty Holhrook. Susanna Su-sanna Gates, Polly Arnold, Darius Dewey, Prudence Rand, Thankful Sawyer, Thankful Newcomb, Hannah Pike, Deborah Clark, and Jonathan Rich all of which are from one recent re-cent column. Tt Is true that the same column contains names which are noi exactly euphonious, and are Indeed rather hard nuts to crack; these, for example: Leafy Bullard a womau ; whence the name of Leafy Hatsel Higgins, Sparrow Hlggins. Abigail Nash, Zerulah Jewel, and Alcy Lock-wood. Lock-wood. In the previous number of the same department are found the names Content Brown. Tabitha Holdredge. and Keturah Bassett. The Nomad once encountered In an old book the name of Camilla Scud-der. Scud-der. Was there ever a swifter name than that? And what about the name of Hepzlbah Hathaway of New Bedford, Bed-ford, found In Emery's book on the lowland Heirs? The Nomad In Boston Bos-ton Transcript. |