The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-06-18
HOWARD'S
A CAD SAYS Wife
Latter Comes Home and Pre-
pares to SueHHim for
il bts,st Il ~
4 Divorce.
The New York Herald printed the

The New YORK Herald printed inc
following yesterday
Mrs. George F. Bronson Howard re-
turned from Europe yesterday to obs
tain divorce from her husband, a
novelist and magazine writer. on the
ground that he used all her face pow
der and allowed himself to be called
cad, a coward and O liar without
offering 4 to light. Mrs. Howard, who
was Miss Rose Skinner, Of Norfolk
Va, and called "the most beautiful
girl in Virginia." was married to the
novelist February 9th last In the Lit
tie Church Around the Corner.
Mrs. Howard was q passenger on the
Etruria yesterday morning. arriving
two days after her husband. AS SOON
as she had read an Interview given
out by Howard on his arrive. she care
her husband, and in her apartments at
No. 10 West Forty sixth Street, she
spent most OF yesterday afternoon ex-
plotting them.
1.-THE very idea OF Mr.. Howard's say
ling spent money extravagantly!"
said Mrs. Howard. why, ! sat In our
apartments in common little hotel
socks. Money? Why.ihe made mo ac-s
count for the. last penny he gave me.
and that wasn't much!''
According to his young wife, Howard
has earned the title of the human
| brainstorm.""E5
Calls His Temper "A,yful.n
"That mans temper was something
| awful" she con tinued. "The row that
| resulted in my leaving him arose when
| his silk hat was mussed. At such
slight things he would fume, his eyes
turn CLASSY and his muscles set like
| stone. UGH he was terrible when he
was that way.
az have to grit my teeth like that
to keep from choking you,' he would
assure me In the most cheerful man
ner. S
'Once I Inadvertently gave my purse
with half guinea in It to friend
and Mr. Howard chased me Into cor
ner behind q sofa. jumped TN the sofa
| and choked me. When fed to an ac-
quaintance,. Mrs. Mendelssohn, who
I runs the bath and Cheltenham Hotela t
! Paddington, Mr.. Howard told her he
bruised me in showing his affection for
/ me- One night he flow Into an awful
passion and wouldn't so to the theatre
because did not have a safety pin
handy.
| Every night my husband would
spend long time beautifying himself
| He used three kinds Of hair toytic, had
1 his face mas saged, carefully powder
cd his face and brushed his hair. One
day friend OF mine asked him II he
1 did not want some Of hor rouge and
that made him angry"
This romance, which began SO sud-
denly In Baltimore last February, last
ed but n few hours. according to Mrs.
Howard
"On our way to England he began TO
have these paroxysnis OF anger" she
said, "Not long after no told me that
1t had been toss UP with him be-
tween me and another girl and that
won the toss. for which he was sor-
ny.
This is what deserve for mar
i ying beneath me- he told me- When
was III from per!tonltis asked him
for f10. He gave me u check and then
stopped payment on It: He had little
i money, and he wanted mo to go on
i the stage and make money for HIM
4 He also wanted me to learn to cook
and keep house. SO he could make
money enough for his sisters debut.
"And that wasn't all, lie talked In
his sleep horribly and used to tell