The Washington times., 1922-06-10
DELUCES
HIM WITH
Il 7 7 TERS
Freed HeIpmeet So He Could
Wed Butchers Daughter.
He's Through, He Says.

iO. 4Nllld LoilC nShi lug, ou-
thor and lecturer, formerly a
resident of Washington, &C
commodatingly divorced her
husband, in order that he
might wed a butchers daugh-
ter. But now the butchers
daughter doesn't want him,
and Nina wants to go back.
"I've deluged him with
proposals." she cries, but
he says he's through. One
hundred and fifty times I've
begged him to marry me-"
Lena Isn't Going.
Isaac, though, has other ideas.
Soon he. will sail for Europe,
where he plans to study condi-
tions, with a view to increasing
his fame as writer on economic
subjects. He won't take Nina
with him. And Lena-Lena
Brauneis, the butchers six-foot
daughter-doesn't want to go.
OOl Mia.
Nobody loves me-" she sobs.
Isaac is a wretch. And Lena is
q fool. want to go to Europe"
Visits Ex.Wife.
New York is not so far from the
isolated little cabin for two on the
topmost part of Redding ridge and
Mr.. Mcbride has paid at least two
visits to his former wife, now Miss
Nina Lane, within the last two
weeks. Miss Lane declares that
she has proposed to her ex husband
at least $50 times since Divorce
Referee Joel H. Reed decided in
February that she was entitled to
q decree, but explains with a sad
smile that Mac" has said No
Just as often.
Just what happened in the last
chapter OF the MCBrlde- Braunels
love story is not known. and prob
ably never will be. for the two
principals have decided to keep
public announcement is concerned.
But Mr.. Mcbride has declared to
his former wife. herself a well.
known writer and illustrator, that
his "hrainstorm" has been replaced
by calm. while the six-foot two-inch
blonde he courted under his wife s
ewes for months Is telling Bethel
that she handed Mcbride the nit
ten" to use the parlance Of the day
and place.
Hundreds of Proposals.
And as for Miss Lane. as she in
sists the Judge said she may be
known. she declares emphatically
that she has not found the cave
man" she wanted last November and
refuses to consider even one Of the
$50 odd proposals Of marriage re-
ceived from eager men in the terri
tory marked on the south by Porto
Rico and on the north by Alaska as
a result of the publicity given her
efforts to square the matrimonial
circle.
MAC, I believe now. is my mental
mate. but not my physical one. We
seem TO agree completely. but | don't
believe we'll ever he more to each
other than brother and sister; at
least we so decided when he came to
spend the last weekend here" Miss
Lane told The Times reporter. IF l
marry any one. II will be man who
is now in Europe. and I won't tell
who he is."
Another Man.
But the village. which is entitled
to its opinion after watching the
romance of the McBrides hit a reef
after nine years Of smooth sailing,
and the subsequent abrupt ending
Of McBride's affair with the statu.
esque butchers daughter. hints that
Miss Lane has found a mate in a
young man who is known to spend
considerable Of his time at the Nc.
Bride place and who is seen quite
frequently driving her machine
about
But ] suppose they will tell any
thing after what has happened, and
nothing l can say about II will help
I have not found my mate here and
no one has succeeded in supplant-
ing Mac in my affections" she ex-
planned with shrug as the reporter
questioned her frankly about the
light-haired young man who may
have the cleft in his chin which
Mrs. Mcbride, now Miss Lane, de-
clared so desirable in a mate only
q few months ago.
Il knew that Lena and Mac
would never be happy when he was
taken so i'll in Chicago a few months
ago. He was in a sick bed with
plelIrisy, and il was thought by his
friends that he was going to die.
But Lena did not go to him And
Mac Is just boy. boy at 40. who
needs a woman who will coddle him
as q mother would.
And IT stands to reason that
when Lena would not go to him,
that II was all off And so It is.
But I cant see where there's any
ncws interest in this thing. II Mac
isn't going to marry the girl" the
temperamental: bobbed hair cx-
wife. who confessed 70 thirty.eight
years Of age. went on.
Miss Braunels ducked to cover
when she heard that newspaper
man was in town, but what she
didn't say was deemed of little con.
sequence after her father punctuat.
ed his views with cleaver pounded
heavily on his block in his Main
street butcher shop.
mo, Lena is not going to get
married. and never was " peo-
ple would mind their own business
around here Il would be all right.
I mind mine and Lena minds hers,
and think our neighbors do, too.