"The Brownings," to whom the Corwitts are being compared, are the sensational couple known throughout: the country now as "Peaches" and "Daddy."
"Daddy" Browning is a 59-year! old millionaire real estate operator in N.Y. He'is known as the "Great, Adopter" since he has always had a passion for adopting child provided that newspaper publicity, accompanied the proceedings.
His first wife went to Paris with a dentist and he divorced her. She took one of their two adopted children with her. The other child, Dorothy Sunshine Browning, is the subject of litigation now. She was ven to a poor dressmaker for adop-ion when she was but a few months old, The woman kept her for five years and then found that she was not able give her advantages ea she advertised her for adoption, Edward West Browning, then married to the first Mrs. Browning, called on the woman and agreed to' adopt Dorothy Sunshine. He did, legally, in court, Last summer—Dorothy is now ten years old—he made known to the press that he wanted a companion for Dorothy. Mary Louise Spas, a comely little girl, widely-touted as "sweet sixteen" was chosen. Mary Louise, despite her ambitious mathe: had no wish to be an old darling. Especially since, it was revealed, she was 20 instead of 16, and wanted to choose her own boy friends. However, she was in a fair way towards becoming Browning's little daughter, with her mother's enthusiastic ce-operation when, desperation, she tried to commit suicide in Kew Gardens Inn, a fashionable Long Island hotel, where she tad been installed by the real estate man, The Children's Society stepped in then and Browning, to the blare st page headlines and eight column freamers" stepped out, a dis-illus'oned Cinderella man.
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