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Show WIFE'S CHANQE OF NAME. Custom of Assuming Her Husband' Is Lost In Obscurity. Tho ctiBtom which innkes It proper for tho wife to HHStimu tho name ol her husband at marriage Is Involved In much obscurity, A recant authority authori-ty advances tho opinion Hint It originated origi-nated from a Koinaii custom and became be-came common after, the Human occupation occu-pation of England Thus, Julia and Octavla, married to I'otupey and Clce-ro, Clce-ro, wero called bj tho Itomans Julia of I'ompey and Oclnvla of Cicero, and In later limes the married women of most European countries signed their names In tho H.imu n, but omitted tho "of." In spite of this theory it Is a fact that as Into as tho blxtcenth mil tho boglnnlng of the seventeenth century a Catherine, I'.trr signed her name without any change though she had been twice married We nlso hear of Ijiily Jane drey, not Dudley, nnd Arabella Stuart, not Seymour, etc. Some think that the custom originated with the Srrlptur.il Idea that tho husband hus-band and wife are one. This was tho rule of law as far baric as 1268, and It was decided In J ho enso of Don versus Smith, In tho relgu of Elizabeth, that a woman by mnrrlngo loses her former name, nnd legally receives the name of her husband. |