Golden Girl Names – Blanche & Bea, Rose & Rue

Herewith is a brief for all children whose parents give them unusual mirth-provoking or humiliating names. The offending fathers and mothers may be well meaning enough and in some cases the names have significance at the time they are given, but before long the child is hanging his head in shame under the storm of derision of his playmates, or blushing when he gives his name for the roll at school. — Anon,
Spokane Daily Chronicle, 1942