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Show 1 Rippling' Rhymes Cy WALT MASON. I OBSOLETE NAMES. A long, long time I've listened for nr.nips I used to know, but girls no ; more are christened with names of long ago When I was young the fel- lahs sang lays, at gloaming hours, to stately Isabellas, who listened in their bowers. Of Ruth some ten or twin", you d meet at ever yturn, and there were Janes a-plenty, and Abigail.1- to burn. And there were Julias living in every village street, Elizabeths vere giving soft looks to Mike and Pete. Where are the blithe Matildas who once were running free, the Dorcases Dor-cases and Hildas, whose forms I Kng to see'.' The good old names are banished, ban-ished, they fit no modern belle, Hie Stately names have vanished with tnose who wore them well. We bor TOW names from posies, when we hae k.ds to tag, so Yiolets and Rosies v. ith twilight loers laj;. I named my j daughter Daisy, and thought I'd mail" i 0 hit, but when she's fat and lazy will that cognomen fit? My aunt, who's large and silly, is jeered by other folk. 1 her parents named her Lily, and so sh lb a joke. The good old names were stately, the fine old names of yore, i and 1 regret it greatly that they are used no more. I |