Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-21
'HANDS0MEST' MAN HAS
THE L0vELIEST BRIDE
Is COMPLETING PARADISE FOR
BEAUTIFUL WOMAN
Prepossessing Appearance Brings Good
Salary as FioorwaIker and
Finally Wins Him
Rich Wife

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 20-'Beauty
Brown" one of the three handsomestf
men on earth, who few years ago while
working as floor walker in a big de-
partment store in this city married Mrs.
Josephine A. Rainey, a widow worth
$500, ,OOO has returned to Philadelphia and
is busy making his estate at Elywn
paradise for his new bride, the lovelfest
woman in the world"
Elwyn is the home of great instftu-
tion for the training of the feeble minded.
This has heretofore been its only claim
to distinction. AS the seat of the first
school of this kind ever established, 1t
has become known all over the world to
those interested in work OF this char
acter Now comes Beauty Brown with
a brand new Sioux City divorce and
brand new wife to make 1t still more Ia
, nous.
Mrs. Brown No. still lives in this city
and retains her former husbands name.
She maintains that she has never been
| divorced from the former floor walker.
| He declares that he got his divorce in
Sioux City by publication, but Mrs
Brown claims she was never served with
notice and therefore she is still legally
| the only Mrs. Brown.
However that may be, Beauty has
married Miss Louise Barbara Ulrich. She
was formerly a photographers model In
a New York studio, and her mother was
a famous writer of short stories, who
died some years ago in Paris. Beauty
left this city, so he says, when he dis
covered that married life his first expert
ence at least, was not what 1T had prom
ised to be. He had expected to receive
check written in six figures and for
and in consideration of being married,
but instead got an allowance OF $1,000
year. He stood for that, but was finally
put out of the house by his wife when
he came down flatfooted and refused to
permit her to procure burial certifcate
for pet dog named "Daisy Brown.
Being without home and his love hav-
ing grown cold, he decided to go west.
He got a positionlin a Sioux City depart
ment store as floor walker, where his
beauty brought him in $1,000 year. He
wore clothes of a snugness of mt that
Sioux City had never dreamed OF. He
was the best horseman in Sioux City and
was the only man there who wore riding
breeches.
Miss Ulrich had also gone west and
was engaged in a photograph gallery In
Sioux City. Brown met her one day
riding astride her pony in the outskirts
of the city. 1t was case OF love at
first sight. He got the divorce and Inn
medi ,tely afterward married Miss Ul-
rich.
For years Brown had been a graduate
of medicine but had not attempted to
practice. While in Sioux Falls he took
several patients suffering from tubercu-
losis and, so he declares, cured them.
This decided him to engage in the prac-
tice of medicine and quit foorwalking
unless at later date 1t should become
necessary to cure midnight attack OF
collie. He began practicing medicine.
making tuberculosis his speciality. He
used the open air treatment exclusively
and made money. lots of 1t. and has re-
turned to Philadelphia.
Out at Elwyn. on the Media branch OF
the Pennsylvania railroad, he bought q
tract of land of thirty-three acres and is
now fitting 1t up as a worldly paradise
for his bride. He calls this beautiful
country place Cheyenne, in honor of the
western city where he and his bride spent
much time. He proposes to use it as an
open air camp for the treatment Of tu-
berculosis patients. He contends the air
is just as good here as anywhere for
the treatment Of the white plague AS
he now has fortune he is prepared TO
carry out his plans regardless Of expense
Legally Beauty Brown is known as
Samuel Agnew Brown. called for the
great Philadelphia physician and sur
geon. After the Elks' parade here in
July he bought several of the burros
which appeared in the turnout. Each
astride Of a burro he and his wife We're
found today riding over their estate.
each armed with Winchester rifle. Mrs.
Brown No. still occupies her fine old
mansion at COZ North Eighteenth street.
but is at Ashury park for the summer.