Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 233, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1910 — FIND YOUR NAME BY NUMBER [ARTICLE]

FIND YOUR NAME BY NUMBER

Miss Zoe Boyle Explains Workings of Her Nomenclature System— Not Fortune Telling. New York.—What’s in a name? Nearly everything from a sure throat to a steady job, in the opinion of Miss Zoe J. Boyle of this city, who calls herself "a name analysist.” She maintains that when one writes one's self "E-D-Y-T-H-E,” instead of “E-D-I-T-H,” one actually makes one’s self a wholly different person. For, she says, as Edythe” one may be more unlucky than when it’s spelled with an “I.” “It isn’t fortune-telling,” said Miss Boyle. “It is the working of a natural, ordinary law. it means a lot of accurate, careful work. Every letter of the child s two or three names—Christian, middle and surname—stands for something. Then each letter is equivalent to a number in several mathematical tables which I use. The simplest is like this,” and she showed th a following diagram: 123456789 abcdef.gh I jklmnopqr stuvwxyz "I add up all the numbers to which the respective letters of the name belong. For instance, the name ’Mary' would be 4-plus 1, plus 9, plus 7. The sum of these is 21, and I consider the vibrations of that number in two ways, as the compound number, 21, and as the sum of the* two component parts. 2 plus 1, or 3.1 have many books telling what qualities and tendencies every number stands for, away up into the hundreds. , » Lsing this simple table, I analyze each of the names borne by the person I am studying. I then add the sum of the letters of the three names together. coupled -with the mother’s maiden name. Only with all this data do I attempt to make a reading.” “But people don’t name themselves,” the reporter ventured, “and isn't ft

rather unfair that their characters and their luck should be determined in spite of themselves, at their christening?”' “Science is seldom fair," she answered, and people have only to change their names. Of course, fre quently It would be rather inconvenient to disturb the surname. But even if that is an( unlucky one, the Christian name can nearly always be manipulated to neutralize the bad qualities of the other." That s why some women are so different after they are married?” was suggested. "Yes, indeed,” said Miss Boyle, "and you know many unhappy marriages are simply the result of an unlucky combination of names."