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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND. OCTOBER 13, 1923 ,J J e I! - k n I ,v-- MTV IaoAN "i T- "He's Not Mv Son" y r ;i , Mrs. John Russell, who, after taking vows of celibacy with her hatband, gave birth to ton. V" Say American Profes- , ; , ', ;. 1 VT sor and British Noble- E; . , t . .-w ..-k man, but Englishman - J v : ' - -'A Is Mistaken r; - 4 ,' : -; W,. -Jlv :'-A Says Court. ' " ' lllipiiilllll Au i . ri;iiii;fifi - -r;-v - - :" : KS-VJ . - . mf , (, I N; v- - - . astiiiiiwiiiiiiiitai ,. .;?jv :. , . ' -"4 : IpMMirpH ' - - . tr st !r . I i - - tTl Professor John Tiernan of Notre fib, V ,ts t- - - r?Tp , , 1 I rn--.,,- Dame university and his wife, who re- . , , 1 , Jsf I . ' ' vealed her "love" child and seeks re- t r- Tl - X - .f S .,y , ... , v . 1 venge on affinity who jilted her. I .i j H ' 7 , - . , J f " '.i, v " '. . . J : I BT WINIFRED V4.N DUZER , ENGLAND'S famous "Draam Baby" is flesh and blood. A fusty old Lon don court has said so and the "Miracle Child" is- spending this first period of really authentfc existence with his still doubting parents, the Russells Christabel Hart and John Hugo in grooming for heirship to the proud estate of his grandparents, Lord and Lady Ampthill! Out in South Bend.'lnd., another "sur prise infant" Is awaiting the word of the law as to Just who he may be. The wife of Professor John P. Tiernan of Notre Dame university acknowledges mother hood. But is Harry Poulin, prominent and popular and close friend of the Tier nan family, the father of the youngster,' as she says, or is Tiernan to be congratu lated, as Poulin states?. Each of the men declares for the other. Excepting that the boy lies in his bassinette, kicking and crowing with small regard for courts or parents of any sort, he might be denied as non-existent altogether. Human nature changes as the years change. Parenthood proudly proclaimed Jtt a gone generation is repudiated. The first recorded case of disputed parentage was settled by simple appeal to the most primitive of all human emotions by Solo mon, who knew his public. Today the emotion of humans is struck oat of legal procedure as unreliable and in its stead is established the "oscillophore," relent lessly truthful as science which contrived It, to determine by test of blood cells -what protester is sire! Tiny "Dream Child" Russell escaped the Indignity of having his blood taken to determine whether he were Indeed Russell or offspring of one of the three co-respondents the heir to Ampthill named In his suit for annulment of his marriage to the fascinating war-worker, styled "super-woman" by members of her family and others who know her well. During the litigation, which exploded sensation after sensation and set all Eng land a-shiver with interest. It was sug gested that the test Invented by Dr. Al bert Abrams of San Francisco, for com-' paring tlxe electric vibrations in blood cells of father and son be brought in to settle the Russell controversy for good and all, but the judge ruled without aid of science. A Modern Challenge for Blood. ' The story of "Soihny" Tiernan or is it Poulin read similarly, since Professor Tiernan challeaged th betrayer of his home to devote a few drops of blood to the oscillophore. So for the third or fourth time in the history of law, dispas sionate science may be called where wise Eolomon once figured, to hand down de cision of parentage. No stranger case for dissolving family ties ever has been conceived and traced and 'presented for trial than the one by which John Hugo Russell hoped to free ' himself of the "Dream Mother." The Russell family is an old and il lustrious one la Britain. Odo Russell, father of John Hugo, was the ambassador to Berlin ic 1877 who, with Lord Bea consfield, negotiated the treaty of Berlin. Bertrand Russell, a brother, is considered . jne of the most brilliant living mathema ticians. Lord William Russell, son of the n t i V - i 1 i . The Resell "dream" baby, declared , Aeir ord Ampthill's estate. VVS I John Russell and father, Lord Amp thill, leaving British court, where Rus sell was adjudged father of his wife's baby on her explanation that he ' "walked in his sleep" and acted . . "Hunnishly." first duke of Bedford, an immediate an cestor, was condemned as a participator in tho.Rye ho'uce plot. But Mrs. Russell herself springs from no mean line. Her father was colonel of the celebrated Lelnsters, and the product of an imposing array of soldiers. Just why the two took on vows of celi bacy simultaneously with their marital obligations is one of the questions that set England gasping. It seemed so fright fully modern, so sort Of day-after-tomor-rowish that one just couldn't associate it with staid Russell dignity! The handsome young matron, who thrilled courtroom spectators with her daring sartorial effects, explained her . marriage In a word: 'I thought if I married him it would prevent my being pestered, as there were many young men worrying ' me. After marriage some of his personal habits rather repelled me. He never said he would give me a shaking or a beating or anything like that. I would have thought more of him If he had. I would have ad mired him more!" Perhaps it was because the Honorable John failed to meet with her ideas of proper vivacity in a husband that Mrs. Russell vi3ited Switzerland on a vacation of sorts. According to her letters from that country, she managed to carry on much of the gay life she had led as a resident of the Paris Latin quarter, where she was reared. "Your wife has a vast following of adoring young men," she wrote her hus band In one letter, "who fight each othef for the pleasure of dancing with her. There are Greeks and slim, silky Argen tines. Also a professional dancer with whom I do tangoes every night. I have four young men In the Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry. They are priceless and so naughty. And so Is your wife!" This was the situation between the two, man and wife, when this remarkable woman, characterized by her counsel. Sir Ellis Hume-Williams, as a "curious prod uct of the age," approached the man with whom she had made her kissless marriage, and informed him that a child would be along shortly. She first had been Informed of its coming by a fortune teller and a physician had confirmed the gypsy's prophecy. "But that's -impossible! " declared the husband. "I'd have thought so too a week ago. But now I remember you came to me one night in a dream. You behaved Hun nishly, too!" And that was that! . Only after he had conferred with his mother, Lady Ampthill, wise in the ways Jf women, and his father. Lord Ampthill, equally informed as to characteristics of men, did the husband decide that ha was no somnambulist. There followed the litigations which finally established the "Dream Child" as a Russell, and heir to the Ampthill estates and titles. Is It Feminine Pique? Out in Indiana tne infant of doubt has stirred a conflict of emotions chaotic as the waters below Niagara. Sensational charges, denials, threats, defiance, ulti matums and plain, hard language have forced the dwellers In the community to a franzy of sympathy for and against the infant's mother.'' That lady now pro fesses hate tor Poulin, for whom she formerly felt love; she so desires his downfall that she is willing to sacrifice herself and the futures of her little daughters, Virginia and Irene, 4 and 6, to obtain it; her energies are bent upon inciting her husband to act for her in bringing punishment to the man in whose wrongdoing she shared. Poulin, seemingly, is plunged into hate for the entire Tiernan family. The col lege professor is thrown out of the order ly arrangement of life which was his dominant characteristic and now is pulled hither and yon by impulses primitive as they are foreign to his "nature. , Strangest of all phases of this case, stranger than any element in the strange story of the Russells, is Mrs. Tiernan's extraordinary attitude toward the entire affair. To an outsider it might appear that she has brought about the entire fiasco of revelation, accusation and prose cution because of mere feminine pique. This is her statement: "I want to stop the whole thing! But when I think of stopping I think, too, of Poulin and how his pleading promises of love turned to worse than indifference. t "I loved him more than I believed it possible for one to love another. Now I hate him with a ferocity which I did not believe possible. I want him to suffer the punishment of those who lead others into sin. "I asked him, when the baby came, to come to our house and see it. He would not come. He did not dare look at the in nocent face of that child, his child. And then he refused even to speak to me. He used to call me Gus; he thought it a won derful name. Then he passed me coldly and turned away when we met. My love turned to hate and It is a real hate for the man who destroyed my peace of mind. Conf etised to Her Husftand. ."His wife pleaded with me not to tell Professor Tiernan. But I did tell him. He might have forgiven me for the sake of our two little girls but I taunted him day after day with the fact that this baby NUMEROUS OBSOLETE NAMES OF TRADE SURVIVE AS SURNAMES Whether Original "Pussyfoot" Was Called "Drinkwater" Not Articles of Attire Not Uncommon. S' OME obsolete names of trade survive as surnames, such as Webster, Lis ter, Walker. In the 14th century the weaver was known4as "the Webster," the dyer was "the Lister," and the work man who trod the cloth In the dye-vat was "the Walker." The Arkwrfght made the arks or chests in which clothing or meal was stored, and the Smith, although he has given the liame of his calling to the most numerous - family, possibly, in the world, was fre quently dubbed "the Faber," this being a rara case where the Latin name of a craft has become a surname. When the cotteler had forged an edged tool the Bloomer finished it off. or put the "bloom" on it. The Chapman traveled with goods from door to door. The Coke baked cakes and sold them. One of the most curious things about surnames occurs in connection with Sal mon, Chubb and -other fish names. None ct them have anything to do with fish. Salmon is really Solomon, Chubb is only mother form of Job, and the first Roach was simply one who lived at or near a rock. Two Welsh names, Pugh and Pritch ard, are very curious. A boy might originally have been Richard ap Hugh, or Hugh ap Richard; that is, Richard the son of Hugh, and Hugh the son of Rich ard. The same names today would read Richard Pugh and Hugh Pritchard. Almost all the common birds have given human being surnames in England, Mrs. Tiernan's baby, whose paternity close friend of the Tiernans when the is not his. I did not care for myself thefT. I could not forget that the man who one ardently pleaded with me to meet him had refused even to talk to me, leaving me with his babe at my breast to remind me eah day of the terrible chapter In ray life. He must suffer as I am suffering." Tiernan, who seemed at first to bear no resentment toward "his wife, finally has 1 looked at the tragedy from the viewpoint of his two little daughters, who have played, neglected, about the bouse through all the weeks their parents were giving themselves up to thoughts of re venge. Almost at the minute his rival was Determined Even such as Finch, Sparrow, Drake. Duck. Crow, Nightingale, Lark. Starling. Part ridge, Martin, Pigeon, Dove, Rook and Cockrill. Of course, the esse of the peculiar Welsh names mentioned above is matched in other British surnames by such as Johnson, Jackson, Thompson, Williamson, Judsofc. Wilson. Chris topherson, Margerison, Poison, Harrison, Feterson, Patterson, Jenson, Robinson and a host of others. Some general place names are peculiar. Gilbert at the Wood, say, gave as the name Atwood, and William at the Water gave ns Atwatert and Waters. Then there are a host, of real names originally ob tained from towns and Tillages where certain families dwelt, such as Preston, Poulton. Chester, Burton, Glossop, Litch field. Holmwood. Blackburn, Leeds, Barnbury and Feltham. Almost every dignity fn church and state has supplied a surname, such as King. Bishop, Duke. Earl, Lord, Priest, Major, Sargent, Dean, Constable, Friar, Chancellor, Prince, Sheriff, Judge, Jury, Cardinal, Pope, Prior, Marshal, Chamber lain and Knight. t The great example of Smith, the name of a man's occupation, is followed in numberless cases, some of them, as al ready shown, quite obsolete In their original use. Others are Carpenter, Bee man, Honeyman, Fisher, Miller, Barber, Wheelwright, Falconer, Dyer, llorn tlower, Groom, Goldsmith, Porter, was indignantly ypadiated by a former professor demanded the blood-cell test. mounting the stand for a hearing, the college professor announced that his wife, who had regained her strength after hrr ordeal, was able to take care of herself, and he would expect her to do so. "Up to this time I have issued ail state ments on ber behalf." he explained, "and looked after her interests because of her weakened condition. Now she has re covered and, being able to take care of herself, 1 am at liberty to cease my con nection with this matter. "Following the deposition of the esse we will separate." The disputed infant. It Is understood, will be cared for by Mrs. Tiernan. Cooper, Packer, Woodman, Baker and Painter. Even articles of attire are not uncom mon, as Hood, Coates, Capes, Boots, Hoe and Doublet. Head, Foote and Hands represent part of the body, whilst tres and flowers are by no means uncommon, as Hawthorn, Blossom, Birch, Ash, Beech, Primrose, Rose, Hazell, Berry, Cherry, Pears, Peach, Pine, Nutt. Bay and Flower will show. . . Undoubtedly some of the strangest sur names have arisen out of mere nicknames which must have sounded originally at least In some eases as Insults rather than patronymics, such as Proud toot, Cruikshanks. Redhead. Whitehead, Short man, Heavlslde, Redman, Merrtman, Strongltharm. Meek, Idle, Hogg, Light foot, Etrutt, Sprlngfellow and Stormer. Others, such as Wise and Wlsemsn. Cleverly. Profit, Love, Charity, ratlent, Fullalove, Nice. Reason, Jolly, Bright. Bonney and Sweet may perhaps be re garded as more or less complimentary. By the way. Is It possible lit the original "Pussyfoot" was called Drlok water? Hole Acts Like Iteveree Camera. Sitting on the old shot tower at Fay ette and Front streets, of which he bad been commissioned to paint pictures. Howard A. Freeh, Baltimore artist, was startled by the apparition of a man walk ing along the wall, serene In spite of be ing npslde down. The phantom reached spot of shadow and vanished. Mr. Freeh Investigated. He found that opposite the spot where the uncanny vision appeared was a small hole In the brick wall an loch or two across, where once a padlock hung. Through this aperture the Images of per sons pausing on the walk ouulds are thrown on the wall life size, and with all colors exactly reproduced, but legs in th air,