Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 222, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1912 — MADE NAME TOO COMMON [ARTICLE]

MADE NAME TOO COMMON

Mrs. Johnson Sorry Now That She Bragged So Much About Her Good Fortune. “Chauncy’s full name,” said Rose Matilda proudly, referring to her youthful son, “is Chauncy M. Depew Johnson. He is named after Mr. Depew, an’ I tell yo’, Mis’ Green, Mr. Depew he right pleased w’en he hear ’b.out it. ‘Did he hear ’bout it?’ Yas’m, sho he did. W’en Chauncy jes’ a few mont’s ol’ me an’ mah husban’ we wrote a letter to Mr. Depew an’ tol’ him We pay him de complimen’ o’ namin’ our sixt’ child fef’er him, an’ wot do you t’lnk he ao? W’y, he write back an’ say -he mos’ happy an' discloses a $5 bill in de envelop. It a rale nice way o’ showin’ dat he ’predate de complimen’, an’ me an’ mah husban’ we right pleased. But would yo’ b’lieve it, as soon as eve’ we mention de subjic’ outside our own do’ de neighbo’s all’ round us dey begin namin’ all deir chilluns af’er him, too;, an’ ev’ time a boy was bo’n his paren’s could ha’dly wait till he ol’ ’nough to car’ him to chu’ch to be christ’n befo’ dey begin a-callin’ him Chauncy M. Depew! So ’t warn’t many mont’s befo’ de whole block was Jes’ a-swarm-In’ wlf chilluns by dat name an’ deir paren’s alius follered up de namin’ o’ the chile wif a letter" to Mr. Depew tellin’ him ’bout it. But I neve’ hear dat he ’knowledge any letter or dat he feel hlsse’f any ways complimented ’ceptin’ by mah husban’ an’ me namin’ our son af’er him. But it jes’ make me mad at mase’f w’en I t’ink dates I hadn’ a-tol’ ’bout mah namin’ mah Chauncy af’er Mr. Depew an’ our gettin’ $5 fo’ doin’ it, de name wouldn’ a-ben so common. I come to de 'elusion, Mis’ Green, dat w’en you has a good t’ing de bes’ t’lng a pusson cayn do Is Jes’ keep quiet ’bout it.”