Word: butterfields
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When I saw the name, Butterfield, Benjamin Emilius, Saug Centre, Ia., in the catalogue at the beginning of this year, my curiosity was aroused. I wanted very much to see the gentleman from Saug Centre, Ia. My imagination ran riot, and before I saw him I had settled many points in my mind regarding...
Then I felt sure Mr. Butterfield, senior, had sandy hair and a sandy beard, and was long and thin, what his neighbors called "rather a spare man;" I had also decided that he had large hands and feet, and wore spectacles and storeclothes; that he was bigotedly honest and never touched a drop of anything...
...suppose the psychological explanation of all this is in the name Benjamin Emilius Butterfield. Butterfield had an unmistakable tang of "store" about it which I could not eliminate. "Emilius" bespoke an acquaintance, limited perhaps, with classic literature, and also carried with it, to my mind, a pair of spectacles...
...Benjamin, i. e., son of the right hand, son of good fortune, was a whole tableau in itself; it meant a chapter every night, sermons an hour long, and Sunday school every Sabbath; it meant a long and tearful discussion between Mr. and Mrs. Buttefield, senior, and Mrs. Butterfield's mother, at Benjamin Emilius' birth; it meant a narrow escape from such biblical prefixes as Arphaxad, Peleg, Uz, Mash, Hazarmaveth, and the like...