The Washington times., 1920-05-23

let the father take him away.
The fsther might recover his child
by payments. but would be forced 10
pay back all expenses Incurred oy
the new parent and pay cent Tor cent
interest on the Others money,
This system Of prontesrins made
Il almost impossible for q man 10
get back his child once gone. THIS
sort Of thing takes place now among
the Bsnks Islanders In the Aelynesian
-ia1 Murray Islsnd chnsiess
couples arc pitied. objects OF ridiculs.
A child is called tsno loglos.' That
means place Of calling But all the
primitive peoples are kind and ex-
tremeiy fond OF children.
''In some places a man who brings
food or plants a leaf In front OF
newly born child's home may get
possession"
TI Nst ss Is.svstiss.
Adoption then is not an innovation
OF modern times. although It's recent
general practice In this country
isht lead many to believe II nav.
II merely proves. since the giving
away of children has been for ages .
custom Of savsges. that there 70
nothing new under the sun. we
are apt to hail each apparently new
ma nj festation In social life as sign
OF the times" and q novelty, without
looking back to md thai the history
OF the race always repeats itself.
Yet everyone remembers consplcu-
Gus cases OF taking orphan children
into hospital homes whose owners
names made the circumstances OF
adoption all the more interesting.
Mrs Finley Shepherd. formerly
Helen Gould. surprised society some
years ago by adopting q nve-year-oid
orphan boy, now known as Finiey
Sheppard, 1r. Later on, from time 70
time, little plsymates were brought
to the beautiful estate on the HUI
son to play with young Finley. Finai.
ly three more children were selected
| by the Shepards and were adopteo LOT
Finley's companions.
But all this was before the Worio
war.
The sDiker Case.
| And since the end of that conflict
probably the most spectacular case oil
adoption was that in which Mrs. Per
ley Spiker, of Baltimore. welcomed 10
1.-The shores OF America her husband
wartime affinity, Emily Knowles
who brought from England pretty
baby. This child's father was Cap
Itain Perley Spiker who, while In the
american Aviation Service, was sta
ltioned in a small town in England
where he met Emily Knowles and Eel
in love with her.
Mrs. Spiker forgave her husba nc
and Emily, found a husband for hel
rival and adopted the baby. 1t wal
the baby-her husbands child-tha'
Mrs. Spiker wanted after all.
h.
"Spiker cases" which have not beer
given publicity, in which. for a child
sake, jealousy and resentment have
been smothered.
.MIke GiIhosiey Adopted.
Equally picturesque from anotheI
standpoint was the case OF Mike
Gilhooley, whose pitiful plight at thu
gateway of America, Ellis Island
touched the heart of an impulsiv'
woman. Mrs. NJ. Curry. She read OF
the Belgian-Irish stowaway who tried
so hard to land in America, and Of
fered to adopt Mike"
Mrs. Marian Gilhooley- Lawrie.
White-curry was better known as thu
Impulse Bride" The former Mariar
Gilhooley was the daughter of the
late Judge Patrick Hamilton Gilhoo'
ley. of New Jersey. and said sht
could not let a GiIhooley knock
at Americas door in vain" hence heI
interest in Mike
| Mrs. M. I. Curry, as she signs her
self these days at her home at tn,
Vanderbilt Hotel, gained her sobri'
quet OF the Impulse Bride" by her
two first marriages which were SEN
sational Opponents, shrouded in Sc
| crecy.
Still another conspicuous case. that
Of a beautiful Porta Rican girl, Marie
Theresa Baco, who recently made an
attempt to gain possession of her six
| months-old child from Professor Karl
Heidemann. of this city. who is the
child's father and whose romances
with her. she said, was sanctioned by
Mrs Heidemann. But the Heide inanns
wanted the baby to enhance their