TITANIC AS BABY'S NAME.
A baker, on registering- the birth of his daughter, at Arad, in Hungary) informed tho registrar that he intended to have- her christened Titanic, as £»ho tyas'Uorn on tho day the White-Star liner sank. The official, however, refused to accept this name, as it ; is not to bo found in the calendar of.Roman Catholic saints' days, and the baker had to conteut himself with the less topical name of ltosaha. In this casetho rule of tho Church, /which is up-l>_-!d by tho State, saved the child from bearing through life.'an appellation which la not only unsuitable, to say, the least of it, for a little- girl, but would also recall for many years one of the most tragic disasters ol modern time. iSomc-times, however, the rule operates rather hardly, as when recently a Vic-nneeo v>ns not alloucd to have \m child christened Daisy, after her mother, who is an .English woman.
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Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14395, 1 July 1912, Page 6
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