The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-10-24
TRIAL DIVORCE OFF,:
WIFE REWON AFTER
STRENUOUS WOO|NG
Miss Sykes Decides She'll Be-
come Mrs. Greiner Again
.H to-Please Hubby.
hE IS SO PERSISTENT!
Divorced and Rebuffed, Kept
Right on Counting Till She
. Just Had to Say Yes!

me last element Of DOUBT whether
Miss Sykes will become Mrs. 0refner
again or whether she 10 30 satisfied with
her taste of life as divorces that she
from her mind to-day by the tactful and
persuasive Mr.. Greiner. who IL tall,
strong, handsome, healthy and courage
ous-both in the matter of racing auto
mobiles. which no does for sport. and
in winning back lost hearts. which ne
says isn't sport.
So, Miss Sykes having been convinced,
the couple will visit the marriage IL
cense bureau this afternoon and proceed
10 the Little Church Around the Corner.
where che vacillating young woman will
confirm her claim to the name Of Mrs
Arthur w. Greiner.
As Mr.. Greiner told an Evening World
reporter to-day. It wasn't a really. truly
divorce. anyhow-merely a trial one. to
see II Mrs. Greiner could not be con-
WINGED II was better to have a husband
who habitually was pursued by other
..Sere-worshipping women, than no hus-
sNand at all.
THE trial OF the divorced state was
oevr. so far as was concerned. just
one hour after the marriage bond had
been cut" said Mr.. Greiner, who Is
stopping at the Hotel Rector. IN the last
minutes of his grass widowerhood. II
knew then that / wanted her. but held
out for awhile, ts give her a chance to
make up her meSN When she came
down here. week $50. all the lights in
Chicago seemed t. 30 out Well. I
came to a decision al hour before tha
Twentieth Century Limited was to start
East, and I caught IL got here Tues
day morning and Z found my wife
that is my once-was-and-soon-t to- be wife
lat her hotel. She said. Yes"
hUesY's LETTERS WENT INTO
WASTE BASKET UNREAD.
Tho Greiners we're separated by the
courts last July. Thereupon the erst-
while husband plunged into speed dis
sipstion and brokerage with renewed
vigor. while his former spouse attacked
man hating with zest. So precisely
did this attitude toward the sterner sex
suit her temperament that. without the
vestige OF sigh. she consigned. I'M
read to the waste basket letters I'm
piorins forgiveness. which began to pour
In from her husband soon after the
separation. These letters came from
Chicago at regular intervals to the Hotel
st. Margaret, In West Forty-seventh
street, where the former Mrs. Greiner
mas been living with her sister. Ethel,
and d friend.
Convinced the mau was too slow
medium through which to win any kind
OF race. Greiner grabbed Cupid by q
wing and set q whirlw!nd pace for New
= York. Romance always had been ms
Pong suit. 1t had marked his first mar
rage; his second, that to Miss Sykes.
was literally fraught and frosted with
Il. Though he had reached the concla-
sion that only the frostlng had sur
y!ved, he proceeded to apply the pull
motor OF courtship to bring romance
out Of its coma.
When he arrived at the St. Margaret.
Tuesday. he won his way into his
former wife's presence by sending up
the name OF his brother-in-law. instead
OF his own. Then he proceeded to win
his way back into her affections.
Hes been so awfully dear to me!
exclaimed Miss Sykes after she had con-
cluded man-hating was a lost art. Il
had forgiven him a long time ago. 1t Is
mighty hard TO remain angry with one
YOU love; even after our divorce l loved
him. But II he hadn't employed SUD-
terfuge / never should nave received
him
ALL READY TO WE'D, AND THEN
SIZE BAlkS.
Early last evening Greiner set the
Horoscope of his affections whirrlng
more vigorously than ever. with the re-
suit that the pastor OF the Little
Church Around the Corner was notified
I, be in readiness to marry the divorced
pair at $50 o'clock. But at the last
moment arose again the spirit OF the
man-hater to interJect disagreement into
the glad atmosphere OF rejuvenated love.
Greiner was compelled to renew his
wooing and at last his former wife
capitulated and agreed 10 sign the final
OF surrender,
Mrs. Greiner, who Is now twenty-one
wears of age, was Gladys Sykes. one OF
Inc three beautiful daughters Of the late
Harry Crowell Sykes, who left con-
siderable fortune. Her marriage to
Greiner was kept secret until Mem
orial Day 1911. when an accident 10
(,re,ner In the international sweepstake
r.ce on the International Speedway al
Indianapolis resulted In her revealing II
10 her father-in-lay over the telephone
f.reiner's mechanician, s. +, Dickinson
yas Killed in the accident
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ro podies Found In River.