Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1913-02-21
There was also the marked opposition
of the de Mumm family

There was also the marked opposition
of the de Mumm family
In America With de Mumm.
In October, 1911, she appeared on
the passenger list of an ocean lin er as
Mile. Marie Van Reinseimer. De
Mumm took passage on the same ship
In New York they were much seen
together They took a balloon flight
together from Pittsfield, Mass They
were up in the air for seven hours
landing at West Hawley. At one time
the balloon scared at $500 feet alti-
tude Leo Stevens, the veteran aero
naut. who was the pilot, says he never
met nervier little woman.
Meanwhile, the objections of de
Mumms family became very strong.
It was finally impressed upon him
that he must tear himself away from
the influence of the charming Amer
lean. He tried. He told her one
morning that he had to attend to
pressing business down in Wall street
and dashed off in d cab to steam
ship bound for Electromagnetic got up
the gangplank in the nick Of time.
Not long afterward Nine. Barnes
Creel closed her apartment in New
York. She shipped all her belongings
to Paris. If she made this move in
pursuit of de Mumm it must be un-
derstood that there was no mercenary
ffy In the ointment of the romance.
The young woman had wealth. She
reappeared in Paris and de Mumm
shrugged wilful shoulders in the face
of his family He sought Nine.
Barnes Creel Reconciliation bloomed
like a hyacinth at dawn.
Several times afterward they quar-
relied and parted. de Mumm every lit
tie while becoming conscience-strick-
en- regarding his failure to comply
with duties of a scion of his house
as his family saw them. He laid be-
fore the hopelessnes of their situa-
tion-her Catholic marriage; the
young son of her marriage to Creel,
now at an English school, a lad eight
years old. They must really separate.
1t was necessary in support of family
requirements that he marry in the
conventional manner of wealthy Euro
peans-a bride selected in the regular
old-fashioned manner-for family,
tradition, wealth, social desirability.
Pistol Shots Mark DispIeasure.
Nine. Barnes-Creel had heard that
toI n, 10
proposed a farewell dinner at Max
inns she indulgently smiled. After the
dinner he put off saying the farewell
and accompanied her to her home.
There he told her goodbye. This was
really final. he said.
Then it was shown that the Paris
ian boulevardier who had first named
her the Midget Carmen" knew well
his psychology From her, escritoire
she took out a small gold-mounted
pistol and shot de Mumm; once
twice,
He was carried from the Rue des
Bellies Geuilles and into an ambu-
lance. He did not die. He SCOTS now
at the idea that she could possibly
have meant to kill One wound was
in his shoulder; the other in his
thigh.
Lastly, he Is pleading with her for
forgiveness. She is Indignantly deny.
ing that when she was shooting at him
he so far forgot himself as to strike
her roughly. fiercely. as the report at
first went out
What will the end be.
The Easton waitress. a dazzlingly
beautiful matron as Nine. de Mumm.
reigning in Paris or conspicuous at
the court of Berline
Or the other-that usual end which
so frequently has befalien women
whose beauty and destinations. whose
daring and love of adventure. have
lifted them from obscurity to luxury.
to surprising positions of influence.
and sometimes to despotic powers
careers which have so frequently end.
ed In a gray cloak of desolstion