The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-07
Urged Her to Fill the Vacancy
In the Home.
TRIED TO MAKE 1T UP.
Came Over From Europe for
That Purpose, She Says.
Man. in the Case Anxious to
Return to Monroe.

Kuttner. the young woman whom
Ferdinand Phinney Earle, the artist
socialist, desires to marry after a di-
vorce shall have been granted his wife,
who is now on her way back to France
with their little son. is quoted in
published interview today as saying:
Il am not an interloper. I have not
come between this man and his wife.
Mrs. Earle is not a martyr. This day
would gladly give him up for duty's
sake, although he is the only man I
have ever loved. If the wife would con-
sent, but she~wilI not. 1t was she who
urged me to try to fill the need in his
life which she admits she has been
unable to meet
Miss Kuttner said further that she
came over from Europe and went to
the Earles home solely to effect a
reconciliation between Mr.. and Mrs.
Earle. Earle, Miss Kuttner added, had
ried. Miss Kuttner is now in retire
ment in Orange, N. J., with a brother.
Meantime Earle. who manifests j
strong desire to set himself right in the
eyes of the public and to be allowed
to return unmolested to resume his
work at his home in Monroe. N. Y,
has visited the newspapers and ex-
planned his position. He says that the
prime cause of his trouble is the
French system of arranging engage
ments under which the engaged couple
are mutually ignorant of each others
real habits and temperaments. He
does not blame Mrs. Earle at all, but
he contends that owing to this French
system. friction which existed during
their engagement continued at their
wedding and eventually led to their
separation.
Miss Kuttner's Story.
| ct tell you honestly and in all earn
estness that when 1 went to the home
of the Earles. when l accepted the hos
pitality of this mans wife. my object
was absolutely to effect reconcilia-
ton between the two she said. Il
knew they had not been happy. He
had told me so. He had revealed the
situation to me in its every aspect.
came here from Europe with the ex-
press purpose of accomplishing a
reconciliation. I changed my plans
came. over asmonth eaxlier than had
intended-simply and purely to bring
them together.
I'm spite of the fact that this man is
so dear to me. L would have considered
it the browning glory of my life had
understanding. The highest form Of
love is unselfshness. would have
gloried in performing this highest of
all loves offices.
have come before the public in the
horrible way it has!" she went on.
This is what stuns me. 1t is hard to
believe I must suffer such cruel judg-
think my friends must hear of this as
it has been presented. Just think how
the world looks at mellow people are
discussing me. am pictured as a
heartIess girl, bent on her own happi-
ness. who has come between this man
and his wife. This is anything except
the truth.
which Mrs Earle not only agrees, but
of which she is glad. She regards my
friendship for Mr.. Earle as blessing
to them both. as the means by which
she shall secure freedom from an I'M
happv6 alliance and a chance for hap
piness for herself in the future"
You mean Mrs. Earle intends 10
wed again."
she finds an opportunity to win the
domestic felicity she has missed.
I'm the first place, there has been
no deception of any sort about this
AFFAIR 1 knew from the first that Mr..
and the friendship that sprang up at
the very beginning was not a friend
ship that violated the fact of his mar
riage to another woman"
''Then the friendship was a matter
of your first -meeting?"
Eyes. I will confess that mutual
understanding sprang into life at our
first meeting. AS soon as we had
talked with each other this bond of
sympathy was established"
at was love at first sight, then, was
it not?"
Calls 1t an Understanding.
s'No-no. 1 should not call it that |
The real understanding came after |
ward This Immediate comprehen- |
sion or sympathy, or whatever you |
choose to call it, was not of a ro-
mantle nature-not then You see. 1
did not know then he was unhappy in |
his married life. l naturally did not |
permit myself to think of him as
other than a, friend, under those cir |
s"Then when did you permit your
self TO consider a closer friendship? ?"
met until he had told me of his |
unfortunate domestic affairs; not until
he had revealed to me that he and
his wife -longed for release from each |
other. that they could not be happy |
together. Even then 1 strove to unite
them About two years ago our in
terest in settlement work in New York |
brought us together. Our sympathles,
our tastes, our activities were in har-
mony We seemed to be at one in all
our IDEAS: He understood me- I'M
derstood him, That was ALL
when did the real acquaintance
ripen?"
Not really until we took the trip to |
Europe-ny brother and land found |
same steamer with Mr.. Earle. That
was last June. When we arrived in
Paris, Mr. Earle stopped at the same
place where my brother and 1 stop |
ned and we saw him often while there. |
we went motoring together, and took
companied US most of the time. We all
spent a most enjoyable season in each |
others society.
.Mr. Earle speaks of the psychology |