To the Editor of the Norrn-Cina Datty News."
Sm—May I so far trespass on your valuable columns to set down 31 following two problems to which Td -feel grateful for satisfactory solutions from you or one of your Kindly readers:—
To the Editor of the "Norri-Cama Dany News."
Sm,—In your issue of Saturday, October 27, 1928, relative to "Two Centuries of Pacific Exploration," the opening paragraph states; "Two hundred years ago to-day Captain James Cook was born at Whitby, Yorkshire."
(2) If the husband's Christian name is Robert, and the wife's Mary, how should she be addressed in correspondence, Mrs, R. or Mrs. M.? In signing letters or cheques, or taking out a passport, should she sign (Mrs.) Ry or Mrs, M.2 Is it optional, or which is the correct mode May I point out that Capt. James Cook who became the world's great est navigator and one of the heroes of the romance of history was born at the village of Morton, (a suburb of Middlesbrough) Yorkshire. In the village school at Morton a or Christian name to employ—the husband's or her own? Are there occasions when she must employ her own Christian name; if s0, when?
(2) Ifa white Russian lady marries a British subject, she is, according to British lay, British: but can she (as in the ease of certain nationals marrying other nationals)
At an carly age young James was with a yeoman farmer named William Walker, of Morton, whose wife taught him his letters. His father in 1736 then removed to Airyholme farm, near Roseberry Toppin, Ayton,' owned by Mr. Scottowe, the lord of the manor, at whose expense he was educated at the old school founded, by Michael Postgato in 1704,
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