The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-04-16
EARLE, MINUS BEARD,
PLUS AFFINITY, HOME;
he SLABS A REPORTER
"soul Mate" Now is Wife OF Ar
fist Who "Shook" His
Former Spouse.

New York. April 14.-Ferdinand
Pinney Earle, the artist. best known
in America as the exponent Of the
rived in this country with his new
wife, last year only his affinity, n
a new shave. On the way out to Mon
roe, NJ. Y, where he has a country
house, he was besieged by reporters
and camera men. Last year he sought
them; today he smashed at the face
OF n man who tried TO interview
him on the train.
When Earle and his new made wife
got off the train at Monroe, where ne
was set pom and horsewhipped one
night last fall, the crowd around the
station Missed and jeered him as he
got into his carriage to go u to
Quaker Hill, his country house, a mile
from town.
There is an element in the popula-
ton OF the town of Monroe that will
lose no opportunity to make Mr..
Earle's technical honeymoon-he has
been married three weeks-as little OF
a sweet song as they possibly can.
There was the usual talk about tar and
feathers today, but that was all. Mr..
Earle is no weakling physically,
and when he chooses he a give an
effective account Of himself, and since
he thrashed a villager of Monroe a
year or so ago for peering at him for
wearing sandals, there has been much
respect for the artist as q fighter.
Legacy in Sight.
1t is said that the main reason for
the artists return to New York was
the necessity Of his appearance in
court with reference to the will of his
grandmother, Mrs. Elizabeth P. Earle,
II East Fi~fty-seventh ST., who died
last March, leaving him, it is declared,
$50, 900. His own house was his most
available refuge.
The artist is the son Of the late Cen
eral Ferdinand Pinney Earle, who was
a we'll to do hotel manager. The son
studied art abroad where he became g.
socialist and other things. He affected
a virgin beard-though that and his
mustache nave now been shaved off
and wore sandals. soft hats and real
artistic string ties.
II 1903 he married a French girl.
He built his beautiful house near Non
roe, took his wife there and began
painting moonlight scenes and one
thing and another. A son was born
to him. He then began to see, he
said afterward, that, after all, he did
not love his wife as a real, dyed-ln-
the-wool soul mate. He began writing
sonnets about his son and his brand
of love.
Enter Affinity.
Then the artist met Miss Julia kutt-
ner, who was doing so called settle
ment work on the east side-she eX-
planned it as living among the too be-
nighted people of the east side so they
might learn to live rightly. Earle and
Miss Kuttner came to the conclusion
that they We're soul mates. that God
had intended them for each other.
Early last fall the artist brought his
being there at the time. The French
wife agreed to go back to her par
ents and sue for divorce. She got it
several weeks ago. Earle accompanied
his wife to Heboken and saw her board
the steamer with her little son for
home for several hours after the couple
had left. It was when the artist got
back to Monroe that night that he was
mobbed.
Some weeks afterward Miss Kuttner
also left New York for Europe. and
not long afterward Ferdinand Pinney
Earle himself sailed. His French wife
secured her divorce in Paris. then a
formal official seal was put Upon the
relationship of the two soul mates in
bout three weeks ago, it is said.
Beard Is Shaved.
The liner Friedrich der Crosse
brought Earle and his newly welded
affinity to Hoboken. He presented a
well groomed, natty appearance, quite
different from his careless "tempera-
mental front of other days. For his
ancient brown slouch hat he wore a
trim little derby. The virgin beard
had been shaved off and his clothes
We're finely tailored and newly pressed.
Accompanied by his mother, Mrs.
Lilly v. Earle, and his brotheriniaw,
Albert kuttner, Ferdinand Pinney
Earle and his wife started for Jersey
City 10 take the train for Monroe,
trailed by a young army of photogra-
piers II reporters.
On the way out to Monroe from
Jersey City the two Mrs. Earles sat
on one seat and behind them sat the
W men. Behind them were two re-
One of these eaned over and
asked the artist for a statement. The
newly married mar made a back hand
slap at the reporter, hitting him in the
face and breaking his glasses. He made
some remarks indicating that he had
recognized the reporter as the man who
last fall had. he thought, printed some
iA!attcr that was not satisfactory to
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