The Washington herald., 1922-11-28

Is the Notre Ddnte td1u professor
Who sued q South Bend, Ind, NOR
chant, trying, but foiltxg to prove
the merchant the father of Mrs.
Tiernan's yoangest child. The other
day Tiernan got divorce, married
mail order BRIDE" but the d.
vorce Was set aside, and he re-
turned to Mrs. Tiernan No. I. His
case IS one Of the most amazing
series of matrimonial ntisadven-
lures IN modern historyD
Chicago, Nov. 81.
"HE world must want to know
how q corn-fed beauty in an
Iowa village, with no tools but
the stub Of lead pencil, managed
by mail to charm a college pro-
fessor into making a fool Of him
self.
The letters of Mrs. Blanche Hawn
Rash Brimmer to Prof. John p.
Tiernan. who came from Notre
Dame to Chicago and married her,
only to flee his bargain within the
rounds of the clock, illuminates the
subject distinctly.
Not the lacing his first wife
gave him at the station in South
Bend, when he returned to her, nor
the petting with which she crowned
1t, ,.held half the emotions nor q
fraction of the tenderness expressed
by Blanche In her long-distance WOO
ing.
The professor was won by a line
of letters that, IL bound. would
bulk the size of Webster's una
bridged- She wrote two or three
| a day, and all were long. Some
ran into thousands Of words.
STRONG FOR LOVE.
All, those words! How she could
hang them together! Religion and
rough stuff, advice to stick by his
family and red hot allurements
TO quit them, poured upon the poor
peda gogue in an appalling torrent.
Better men than Tiernan might
have fallen for this:
Il have plenty. Money has no
attraction whatever. l just want
to love my man until il hurts"
Still, she was a woman of twenty
four who wouldn't write out hell"
She used a dash. In the same
letter. however, she would insist
| that she was the distant professor 5
chattel to come and get. body
and soul"
She told him she had seen him
| once, three years ago, from a car
| window: that he had been pointed
out to her as the famous Professor
Tiernan" and that from that time
she had loved him superlatively.
Never in the correspondence did she
explain why she hadn't spilled the
boiling honey Of her penciled pas
sion upon MS troubled head until
the paternity of one Of his wife's
children became a question in court.
incidentally the letters Of Blanche
bring a boon to that portion OF hu-
manity that has to have novelty to
| live. Why need the tit-for-tatters
and the cartoonists continue to ring
changes on "Sheik" and the Gave
Man." when a Sears-Roebuking 81
ren in a town with one store pro-
vides them with this:
But always you are and will be
my Sakawawin."
Three librarians. entirely sur
rounded by books on Indian lore,
spent a fevered night trying to find
! out the meaning Of Sakawawin.
Baffled, they threw up their hands
and offered a guess that Sakawawin
was Iowa Indian for gorgeous
daddy"
DEAR FRIENDS" AT FIRST.
When Blanche started the whole
| thing, on October 29, she addressed
John almost formally
| Dear Friend" she began, and
informed him among other things:
| ct have had two opportunities to
/ go into Lyceum work, as l play the
harp and singer rather bluff
folks into thinking can do both. u
On November s. after having re
ceiyed a reply from the professor
she addressed him: Dear Man o
Mine"
II am a very passionate person,
she informed him.
But in the next paragraph she
got down to cold business, thus:
Young man, you are thinking
wholly of yourself. Suppose you
succeed in winning my love? And
then something happens and you gc
back to your wife. What OF me
and my empty life? Did you think
Of that? I'd not be selfish. For Il
Won found YOU could live with her
I'd wish you joy and happiness
But lust the same I'd suffer"
Judges might be found who
would say 1t wasn't quite fair fol
Blanche to write in her next let
ter:
"I am five feet five inches tan
have dark wavy hair. very blue
ewes and a medium complexion.
weigh 11S pounds. have small feet
and hands I guess that is all, only
| I love golf music, tennis, etc. Best
Of all 1 care for a wonderful man
in the East that is worth riskins
character for"
The Professor answered that let
ter. In return he was called Dear
| Man o. NV Dreams" hut was
told she would be glad if he be-
came reconciled with his wife and
"aeain embarked on the sea OF
matrimony. even if it's in a patched
canoe"
HER DREAM LOVER.
Explaining why she chose at that
moment to hold him as a dream
lover. she wrote:
I'D be afraid to love YOU as a
reality. For then I'd be as al
true women are. I'd begin tc
long for YOU and your arms. tc
be caressed and to caress you. Oh
I'm so truly feminine when II
comes to love"
II NAV not have made a bit oi