The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-09-05
SHAMES WIFE
At PIER
Artist Advocate of Free
Love Makes Woman
Pose for Camera.
SON SHARES MISERY
Mother and Boy Leaving for France
After Sordid Exhibition
on Wharf.
on Wharf.

New York. Sept. AIRS. Ferdinand
Pinney Earle. who for a few weeks or
months will continue TO be the wife OF
the Monroe artist given to views Of
prenatal marriages. sailed for France
with her baby. Harold on the steam
ship Ryndam this afternoon.
1t had been announced by Mr.. and
Mrs. Earle that so perfectly were they
in accord on the matter of a separation
that the farewell would be in the shape
of a happy little pier party" Instead
of this idealistic denouement of the
artists stage play there was a gaping
crowd of the curious and clamoring
squad of photographers at the pier TO
make the departure Of the lonely wo
man a thing of sordidness and NORTH
cation.
The artist who has led his wife to
assent to his theories in the heaven
welded union of afflnities even while
the woman he is to Harry was living
under the same roof with her, came
down to the boat with the white faced
wife and the chubby boy, 2 years old
The promise given out to newspaper
men that Miss Julia Kuttner, the re-
Gently discovered affinity whom he is
to wed as soon as his wife shall have
secured a divorce in France. would be
down at the pier was not fulfilled.
Makes Wife Pose for Cameras.
Earle and his wife, a maid, and the
baby arrived at the Jersey City sta
ton of the Erie railroad at 10:40
o'clock. AS soon as they reached the
pier they hurried up the gang plank
to the stateroom engaged for the wife.
There the artist excused himself, say
ing that he was going to see friends
for an hour.
Mrs. Earle was besieged in her cabin
by an army of camera men and had to
pull down the shades to prevent a
flashlight powder from being thrust
through the cracks of the shutters. She
sat alone, holding her baby on her lap,
until Victor Earle. a brother of Ferdi
nan Earle, and his wife came down to
the pier in a carriage. They pushed
their way into the cabin and locked
the door behind them.
After an hour Earle reappeared and
asked his wife to step out on deck and
pose for the camera squad. He was
determined to get all the advertising
he could. The shrinking little woman
in the gray suit, whose face appeared
and tumbled hair, shrank behind him
on the deck. When the photographers
got through the man gave out this
statement without a smile:
MY wife is bearing the strain Of
the ordeal nobly."
Artist n Spaghetti Philosopher.
A little later the last warning whistle
blew, the crowd of visitors trooped
down the gangplank-last of them the
tall artist The ropes were thrown off
and the steamer bearing the woman
and her boy back to Paris slipped down
the river
Miss Julia Kuttner, the woman who
supplants Mrs. Earle, is German
American, % years old, whose home
is in Bethlehem, Pa. Like Earle, she
is a socialist Earle met the woman
three months ago when he sailed for
Europe on the Campania. Ferdinand
Earle has not paused half way in his
revolt against the existing social and
moral code. Among the socialists
prominent in New York he is regarded
as one who is more OF a philistine than
Upton Sinclair. Several organizations
of highly individualistic thinkers who
like to dabble in devlishness over so
cent table d'hote dinners during the
spring season of poetry have long
known the Monroe advocate of freedom
in love and hailed him as a second
Paul Verlaine, because of his defiance
of what the world knows as sanity.
The penchant for societies of unusual
nature that exhibits itself in Ferdi-
nand Earle was also a characteristics
of the late General Ferdinand P. Earle.
He was a member Of the shortlived So
ciety known as the knights of Runny-
mede. and with his wife was an en-
thusiastic supporter of the Society OF
the New York Holland Danes.
Wife Explains Her Position.
Mrs Earle gave out the following
statement just before she sailed:
Il accept the sacrihcial role in which
my husband has placed me, and l shall
leave him his freedom and the woman
he has chosen in my place My little
boy and I will make our home in Paris,
and 1 shall try to have the boy never
llearn of this tragedy.
For Mr. Earle have no censure, but
only a feeling of sorrow. For my sue
cessor. the Mrs. Earle of the future,
I suppose, have only the most charit-
able feelings. Ny Husband I give TO
her because 1t was his desire and
wish TO help him to a full realization
of his ideals. I shall not be affected
| bv what the public may think. have
done everything. in my opinion. for the
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