Judge — May 27, 1911 — page 8: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

ONE OF THOSE SKIDS ON THE HIGHWAY OF FATE. Our friend, E. N. Thuse, spends four years at college, studying civil engineering, — —— and then goes on the stage as a buck and wing dancer. WHAT'S IN A NAME? OOKING over the list of some eight hundred or more names of the diners at the annual dinner of the As- sociated Press and American Newspaper Publish By WILLIAM J. LAMPTON one Mount and no Horse, two Noyeses and no Roosevelt, one Payne and no Pleasure, two Murphys and no Tammany, one Peck and no Bushel, one Potter and no Clay, two Chews and Association, at the Waldorf Hotel, New York City, no Smoke, one Shepard and no Sheep, one Storm and no Wind, one may find something of interest to those who see meaning in names. For example, of those bearing presiden- tial names, there was no Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt, or Taft; but there were one Adams, one Jackson, three John- sons, three Pierces, one Buchanan, and one Hayes. as usual, led in number, there being eleven of the family, and one who spelled his with a " making the dozen. Jones was there to th tent of six, and Brown only four, while Robin- son got there with none to spare. There were six Rogerses and five each of Ridder, Wright, Thompson, Miller, and Moore —and one Thomson who didn’t spell his with a “‘p.'" There were twenty-four Mes and eight O's, with three Macs and one plain Mack. Of the old-time editorial names, there was no Greeley, Bennett, Dana, or Raymond; but there was one Halstead. There were two Bacons and one Ham, four Bakers and no Bread, two Brooks and one Bass, two Berris and no Basket, two Hoes and one Field, two Hitts and no Bases, one Hand and no Foot, one Hall and no Room, one Keeley and no Cure, two Knapps and no Snore, one Moon and no Stars, three Nelsons and no Half, e Shoemaker and no Last, one Story and no Fire-escape, one Virtue aed no Vice, one Stone and two Woods, one Will and no Property, five Wrights and no Wrong, one West and no East, North, or South; one Thorne and no Smith, tose, one Fish and one Pond, one Plummer and no Repairs, one Justice and no Mercy, one Ball and no Bat, three Butlers and two Cooks, one Call and no Response, one Callender and no Date, one Bonnet and no Lady, two Dears and one Darling, one Frost and no Freeze, two Glasses and no Beer, one Grove and no Tree, two Lanes and one Alley, one Pullman and no Porter, one Cobb and no Corn, one Good and no Evil, one David and no Goliath, one Appel and one Plum and no Peaches, one Earl and one Marquis and no King, two Brushes and no Comb, one Tarte and no Pie, one Stretch and no Elastic, one Sherlock and no Holmes, one Huntsman, one Hunt, and no Game, The only birds in the lot were four Cranes, a Drake, a Larke and a Rook. There were some other less noticeable pecu- liarities of nomenclature in the list, but why mention them? What's in a name, anyhow, un- THE POLICEMAN’S DAUGHTER. less it is on a check and the check certified? comicbooks.com