Fond Of Letter H.

"It's a peculiar thing," said the knowing clerk in a hotel which is noted more for its hospltality than it is for its inquisitiveness into the character of its guests. "It's a peculiar fondness that the average man has for the letter H as an initial. Now, I don't suppose that there are more middle names begtnning with H than with any other letter- M or R or S or B- but nine men out of ten, if they are in doubt about a middle initial, decide on H," quotes the New York Sun. "Now, my middle initial Is W, but for every letter I get, except from people I know well, that has my initial right, I get three in which it is put down H. It's very seldom, too, that you'll ftnd a man with sufficient strength of character to leave out the middle initial of the man he's writing to if he doesn't know it, so he claps in an H and Iets it go. There seems to be a prevailing super - stitition th.nt a man isn't just what he ought to be unless he has a middle name, and that the chances are very strong that that name begins with the eighth letter of the alphabet. "Now, here's another instance: Cast your eyes over this page of our regster. That is mostly late guests who rop in here late at night and sign ames other than their own. See the esult: 'Charles H. Jones,' 'John H. mith,' 'George H. Robinson,' 'A. H. 3rown,' 'F. W. Brown,' and so on. "here are ter. names on that one page the middle initial of which is H. Now, that letter isn't any easier to write than any other letter; it certainly isn't any more ornamental, and I can't see that in any respect it has an advantage over the rest of the alphabet. Yet the human race sticks to it with a fldelity worthv of a more important cause. I'd like to have some wise man teil me why."