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Show Too Many Similar Names. Denmark Is more bothered by tho prevalence of a few common names ending in "sen" than ICugllsh-sppaktng nations aro with Smiths, Joneses and Robinsons. In Copenhagen 210,000 Individuals, In-dividuals, or forty-two percent of tho population, havo names ending In tho patronymic son. About fifty thousand of them nro HaiiRPiis. This condition has been pronounced "a national plague," and n pamphlet was Issued recently giving sixteen hundred gen-ulno gen-ulno Danish names not now In uso nnd available for those who may wish to give up their Hansen or Peterson. To facilitate matters further, tho former for-mer chorgo of llvo dollars for changing chang-ing one's name has been reduced to ono dollnr. |