The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-03
WIFE GIVES UP
HUSBAND TO
"AFFINITY"
Artist Says New Love and
He We're FOreOrdained
to Be Welded.

NEW YORK, Sept. 3.-Ferdinand Earle,
IT,, who is the son of the late General Fer
dinand Earle, during his lifetime one Of
the owners of the Hotel Netherlands, the
Hotel Normandie. at Normandie- blythe
Sea, N. j.. and prominent in financial cir
cles. will come down from his country
plsce outside of Monroe, Orange County,
N. Y. Wednesday, to bid godspeed for all
time to his wife and son, who are to sail
OIL the Holland-Amerlcan line steamer
Ryndam. With Mr.. Earle will come to say
good-by. also, the woman who has been
staying with her brother and mother as a
guest in the Earle home for the past ten
days, and whom Mr.. Earle will wed as
soon, as his wife shell have been granted
o divorce in France.
Mr.. Earle says that he is acting OH his
convictions in this Instance. Conditions
over which he and his wife have lost all
control make them happier apart. This has
been agreed between them. The woman
whom he intends to wed has been living
IN his home for some days past entirely by
his wife's consent. md all VIII part the
best OF friends. Mr.. Earle said.
The artist maintains that his scheme of
life is n designed to secure happiness.
He also says he is a Socialist. but that
his determination to part with his wife
and wed another woman under conditions
I'll Nh0 iiOt
evolved from the teachings of Socialism,
but from his own conception of a mans
duty to himself. He is not q believer in
free love. says the artist. but in the free
dom Of love when the dictates of that
passion run COUNTER to the formal precepts
laid down by society.
Mr.. Earle and his wife. at their home on
the Earle estate. a mile outside of Mon
roe, last night both told the story of how
than hoI ~,AA l. $1,000
WHIT is to be the second Mrs. Earle after
the artists present wife mas secured the
divorce both have arranged for sat upstairs
and took no part In the conversation.
Mr.. Earle die not seem surprised when
asked to give the facts concerning the
gossip that has been filling the mouth of
the village since last Friday He said
that he would rather have the story Of the
incident appear in his version II II had to
be published at all. He then told the
story. as follows
LESS than ten years ago, when l was
studying art In Paris. 1 married a French
woman. She was very dear to me; she is
yet, but. in another way. | had all that ]
seemed to need-my art, a wife and plenty
to live on. We were very happy.
w came over here to live several years
ago; out here in the country, where W.
could be alone and undisturbed. We were
oNAA atNRRJI ahA hACAS 81 J0l 4 u "
was born to us. But soon something began
to arise between us. l cannot explain.
Call it incompatibility of temper, conflict
of ideals, what you may. Those things
cannot be explained. Maybe / was cruel,
who knows? But the coming of the child
that was part of each of us made 1t doubly
hard to take the logical step. Constantly
l believed more and more that a man and
a>woman are in tormen when they are not
affinities.
"A few months ago l went to Europe tc
attend the deathbed of a brother. On thu
steamer l met a young woman. who lives
In Bethlehem, Pa. She was a Socialist
Ill myself. Like me she believed not II
free love, but the freedom of love when 1
opposes the dictates of social proprieties
This young woman and 1 saw much o.
each other in France We became at
tached. We realized thai our marriag,
had been f~oreordained before our birthl
and was to continue forever.
when this knowledge came to us
went to my wife's father In France anC
told him the whole situation. I said tina
1 wasted to send his daughter home t,
him, for both of us realized that we wer,
not suited to one another. 1 told him tina
I did SO in all kindness both to her and I,
myself. He saw my point of view. w
a aWJOA Az pA'
the divorce was arranged. When 1 lief
France he gave me an almost fatherl,
farewell.
"T did this thing without the knowledge
of my wife. When I returned I told he
of the step I had taken. and after II Will
she was persuaded that it was for tn
best. Then the woman who was my rea
affinity came up here to meet my wife.
'She came not as an interloper, but a
a friend. She came perfectly ready t
~renounce n e If my wife insisted upon ii
Her mother came with her and later he
brother. who has stayed with us sine
the mothers return to Bethlehem. w
have all lived under the same roof to
gether in harmony. I am still my wife
husband and I have but one wife. A
the stories you may hear In the villag
about my attitude toward my presen
wife and the wife to be are scandalousl
false"
Ferdinand Pinney Earle is the eldest so
Of the late General Earle, who died !
this city in January. 1903. The Earle fam
lily lived for a time In the historic june
mansion. which they renamed Earle Cliff