The tendency now is increasing to keep the one designation to which one is born and make no concessions to conventional nomenclature.

It must be remembered that in such cases it is the father's name by which the married daughter is called and the mother's maiden name is lost with all the rest of the silent majority of her sex.

The fact that men have given the wedded name for ages, and that men are most often senior partners in the marriage firm, and the fact that any other suggested plan gives two names for one family instead of one seems to make that a part of the old inheritance that may not cause great uneasiness if one accepts it without revolt.

There is a compromise method which long has been a custom among Friends and is growing even more rapidly than that of holding permanently to the full maiden name.

That is the plan of keeping the father's name, or the "maiden name," as a middle one, and adding the husband's name; so that Miss Mary Jane Wood shall, on marrying John Hartley Stone, become, not Mrs.John Hartley Stone, but Mrs.Mary Wood Stone.