Note A — Chapter VII · THE OLD HEAD-MAN, THE “STRONG ONE,” THE “HANDSOME ONE,” THE “WEAK ONE.”
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The custom of naming children after some personal quality is frequent in Java; as frequent is it for the parents, after the birth of a first child, to sink their own names, and designate themselves as the father and mother of the “handsome one,” the father and mother of the “strong one,” etc.