"TIME brings all things."

In Philadelphia, Harry H. Kabotchnik and his wife, Myrtle, native Americans, petitioned the

Court of Common Pleas to change their name to Cabot, as Kabotchnik was " cumbersome, a hardship and an inconvenience." Lest the Kabotchniks be taken for relatives of theirs, members of the New England Cabot family (including Judge Cabot of the-- Boston Juvenile Court; Stephen Cabot, Headmaster of St. George's School, Middletown, R. I.; Dr. Hugh Cabot, Dean of Michigan University Medical School) protested. Three historical and genealogical societies also protested. The judge granted the petition, stating that the Kabotchniks had qualified as Cabots by complying with a Pennsylvania law passed last April relative to change of names.

Besides the protesting Cabots above mentioned, the following Cabots are named in the 1923 Who's, Who: Godfrey Lowell (Boston carbon magnate), Henry Bromfield (Boston lawyer and capitalist), Richard Clarke (Boston physician and Harvard professor), William Brooks (Boston engineer). There is also Philip Cabot, of Boston and Wall Street.

Whence these Cabots, and many others, derived their patronymic is uncertain. There was John Cabot (1450-1498), explorer--but he was more properly Giovanni Cabote, an Italian. There was George Cabot, President of the Hartford Convention in 1814-1815. But a Boston Who's Who of 1851 says that his family originated in Beverly, Mass., and was formerly called Corbett. This source might make James J. Corbett (whilom champion pugilist) kin to the Cabots of Boston.

The incident at Philadelphia aroused much editorial comment in the press. Said the New York Tribune : " Fancy Henry Corbett Lodge! . . . The idea of spurious Cabots is as disturbing as the thought of counterfeit antiques in the Metropolitan Museum."

Journals everywhere printed the time-honored quatrain:

"Then here's to the City of Boston,

The home of the bean and the cod,

Where Cabots speak only to Lowells,

And the Lowells speak only to God."

Wrote a famed colyumist:

"Then here's to the City of Boston,

The town of the cries and the groans,

Where the Cabots can't see the Kabotchniks,

And the Lowells won't speak to the Cohns."

The adjacent photograph shows Dr. Richard Clarke Cabot taking the role of a bedridden Irish comedian in a charity entertainment in Boston in 1919.