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MUJIC TIRADE
VOL. L. No. 25.
Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at 1 Madison Ave., New York, June 18,1910
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H E R E are some people who affirm that there is nothing in a name, but I think there is a good
deal.
Many a man is handicapped in the battle of life by having a name which is unpopular,
whether deservedly or otherwise, it doesn't matter.
There is a good deal, too, in the name of a piano, and some have to struggle along through trade
channels under a weight that could easily have been avoided by the adoption of a different name.
Even kings are overloaded with names which weigh them down, and if George V. succeeds in
making his name popular with the British people he will have accomplished a task which many believe
impossible.
Why?
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It is a fact that the four Georges who .preceded him on the throne of England were, on the whole,
about the worst bunch of undesirables ever called upon to rule a great nation.
The first George was a rough Hanoverian soldier of some ability. He was called upon to rule a
people whose language he could not speak, and never cared to, and whose moral sensibilities he shocked
by a life of open scandal.
The second George was a lightweight in morals.
The third George was the worst of the lot. He could see nothing beautiful in a Shakespearian play
—the art of the great dramatist was entirely lost upon him—but he would laugh himself hoarse at the
spectacle of a clown swallowing a string of sausages.
Through his assinine policy and pigheadedness he lost the American Colonies and died insane.
The fourth George, sometimes called "the first gentleman of Europe/' was a profligate, whose life
was honeycombed with scandal.
There is a ribald British jingle which runs this wise:
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George the First a rogue was reckoned;
Viler still was George the Second.
No one yet has ever heard
Any good of George the Third.
When George the Fourth to hell descended.
Thank the Lord! the Georges ended.
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Who can say that the fifth George is not handicapped at the start with a name?
He has got a hard fight to popularize himself, notwithstanding the fact that he is distinctly and
temperamentally different from the four Georges who have preceded him. If his name is to become pop-
ular, George will have to do it.
What's in a name?
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A powerful lot, I'm thinking.
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