Show NAMES EAR mrs post I 1 was named for or deail D my cay father who died when I 1 was very young for more than twenty fil file e years I 1 have continued to use john smith jr as roy my name I 1 know that I 1 am john smith and should write my lay name without junior suffixed to it it but my father achieved some prominence and I 1 hesitate to take his n name a e even now please write your opinion of in my y case car e answer I 1 think you yourself have given the only opinion there Is to give actually you are now john smith but I 1 have no idea whether the laws of your own state would compel you to sign your name or engrave your visiting cards or even to change your bauk bank signature I 1 do happen to know of a number of men who for one reason or another continued to call themselves junior long after the death of their fathers I 1 also know of others who during their fathers lives have taken off the nanie name junior by adding middle 1 names apparently a man considers ills his name Is his own to do with as lie likes but whether he has the I 1 legal right to make these changes I 1 dont know dear mrs post should an woman register in a hotel as carol jones or miss carol jones it if miss Is included Is it written as an undivided part of her name answer she writes miss bliss carol jones exactly as in addressing an en delope she puts miss in parenthesis in front of her signature at the end of a letter to a stranger who does not know whether she Is miss or mrs lira or in your particular case mr my dear mrs post what should the young children at our school be taught to call a handy man whose duties also include driving the lins bus which brings them to and takes tabes them from school every day lie ile Is n not 0 t a young man and we dont want them to be disrespectful to him and yet dont know whether we should expect the children to say sir mr jones or not answer I 1 think it depends upon what you call him if he Is silas to you the chances are arc the children will call him silas too you can of cours courar make a point of 0 it and tell them that it Is polite to call him mr because of hla his age 0 by emily port service |