The Washington times., 1922-08-13
WORKING GIRL !
WANTS 100000
. IN HEART BALM
Claims Kansas City Millionaire
Left Her Waiting at
the Church.
BOUGHT HER A $4.o 600 RING
Changed His Mind at Last Mo-
ment and Must Explain
in Court.

in Court.
BY JACK CARBERRY,
International News Service.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Aug. IL.
--"Can the girl who works for a
living ever reach the heights of
social leadership as a rich mans
wife?
"Or does her association with
che hard, practical world Of bust
ness unfit her for the softness Of
the country club veranda, the
bridge tea of the exclusive set
and as hostess to the "four
hundred p"
A jury in circuit court here will
be asked to solve this age-old
problem-to write into the books
of Blackstone, In their cob-webbed
shelves, the answer to the problem
Of "caste."
Sues Millionaire Suitor.
Miss Lands Grout, Twenty-Five
year-old stenographer, pretty, viva
--cious, diminutive, brunette-the
Angel Eyes" of Jonathan A. Bru-
baker, sixty-three-year.old million
aire grain man, church director and
clubman-asks the question.
1t Is IN the form of a heart-balm
suit filed by Miss Grout, in which
she demands $4,000 to soothe the
aches Of blighted romance.
Miss Grout's suit has become the
one topic of the country club, the
afternoon bridge and is brought up
at every social function for discus
sion. not alone by feminine society,
but by the social sets male contin-
gent as well.
In her petition Miss Grout says:
She was a working girl-a stenog-
rapher.
In a fellow business mans office
the millionaire grain man chanced
to see her one day
He told me 1t was my eyes which
attracted him-that is. why he al
ways called me his Angel Eyes"
Miss Grout says
That the millionaire pursued her
evry step from the moment of their
meeting until a few hours before the
time set for their wedding on MAY
u, Is another allegation Of the suit.
Miss Grout listened to his plea
to resign her position" her suit con.
tinues.
e She further says:
Gave Her $1,000 Ring.
The millionaire purchased a
1000 engagement ring.
Bought her a $4,000 coupe.
purchased the wedding ring. I'm
scribing 1t: To my Angel Eyes
That he purchased her wedding
gown.
$ Employed the ninIster-arranxsd
Tor the service in the EXCLUSIVES
Grand Avenue Temple Church. of
which the millionaire is a member OF
the board Of trustees
the church. NJ
In her suit Miss Grout say,.
Il was all prepared for NV v.a-
ding-dressed in the thing ~ 49,
To a girls heart. But INV brida-
groom-to-be did not call for me.
teiephoned him. I was frantic. He
told me 1 would have to postpone
the wedding. I asked why.
Says He Regulated Her.
"Ho said that I was Just a work.
ing gri-that his set could not &C.
cept me until had elevated my
caste.
1T is not that the $4,000 ask
viii mend my broken heart" Miss
Grout said after filing her suit.
My real reason IL to ayenge the
slur OF so-called society against the
girl who works. - : -.
II am proud Of the BIT I, con.
tributed to the work-a day world. I
glory in the girl who works-no
matter what her position in life.
believe her more fitted to be a wife
than the social drone of~the pink
teas, whose only labor Is the hours
she spends under the hand of the
beauty specialist. y
Claimed She Was Beautiful.
IF have beauty, which Mr.. Bru.
baker claimed, II Is just the beauty
Of the girl who has lived a healthy.
happy lfe-a mirror Of the happi.
ness a girl finds in the knowledee
that she is contributing something
Miss Grout claims II win be balm
enough for her heart II jury holds
that the working girl is not OF lower
social caste than her more fortunate
sister-the daughter of wealth.
Brubaker has promised to file an.
swer to Miss Grout's suit.
He will prove, he claims, that
the working gisp vamped him. in.
to his proposal Of marriage-that she
aspired to be an ''old mans darling"
and in reality loved q handsomer
and younger man."
Brubakef, despite Miss CIRCUITS
denial. says he viii name the man.