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Show Naming the New Baby. I HERE are few parents who do not I gfvs the most conscientious care to I the choice of names, for at any rate their flr.-t an" second born children. chil-dren. Somtftlrrwoi quite a wordy ! wages over the vexed crucstion. !t Is frequontly the case the eldest son an eldest son Is given his father's j "am . and the rule hvlds good almost unl- j fersally that the first born boy i named fter hi- father. But a distinguishing cond name is due to the child, Whooth' r- : ae may have to go through life with "Junior'' tacked on to his surname: hlle in the family circle one of two u :-e wnil happ-n either the boy vrlU nk his rfil name nnd bx called by a ;ct one, or the parent will resolve Into j! "father." Now, to theli children, fatha It nd mother nattui II refer to otioainoth! : thtc titles, but in i heir own company 1 1 't 1 sv, . -t ter to us their Christian names. I "odess by ao doing confusion is created ! lnjr to the fact that the children dupll-ts dupll-ts thtwe nwnes. OW to c.nKld r some of the errors In oing a ebild UuU carry Inconvi ni nee I L . and anno-ajwi.' to their victims. There wa.s a certain father who christened all his children, boys and girls, with names brinnlntf with G. and gave them one name each. Confusion reigned supreme su-preme In such a homely detail as the rorl-in rorl-in of these children's clothes unless they were marked with their full names. At school the boys were teased becauso their Initials were not a sufficient Identification Iden-tification of them, and their Christian names had to be revealed In full, contrary con-trary to the usual custom of the sehooL So far as the girls were concerned, the fact that they were named Grace, Gwendolyn, Gwen-dolyn, and Gladys, though It was awkward awk-ward In childhood, mattered less later when they changed their surnames upon marriage. Two Christian names are often useful to a boy. for the sake of his signature In aftOT life, which he can then diversify to suit his taste. More than ono Is an emphatic em-phatic n.eessity to tho lad whose surname sur-name Is one common to many people, in order that ho may, if he so desire it, characterize char-acterize his surname by the use of bis second name. |