The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-04-16
EARLE, MINUS BEARD,
PLUS AFFINITY, HOME;
He SLABS A REPORTER
"Soud Mate" Now Is Wife Of Ar
fist Who "Shook" His
Former Spouse.

New York, April l4~.-terolnanu
Pirney Earle, the artist. best known
in America as the exponent Of the
affinity or soul mate doctrine. has ar
rived In this country with his new
wife, last year only his affinity, and
a new shave. On the way out to Mon
roe, N. 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 one man who tried to interview
him OH the train.
When Earle and his new made wire
got off the train at Monroe, where he
was set upon and horsewhipped n
night last fall, the crowd around the
station Kissed and jeered him as ne
got into his carriage to go out 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..
Eprle's technical honeymoon-he has
been married three weeks-as little or
a sweet song as they possibly can.
There was the usual talk about tar and
feathers today, bEt that was all. MI.
Earle Is no weakling physically
and when he chooses he can give an
effective account OF himself, and since
he thrashed a villager Of Monroe a
year or so 6 lor peering at him for
wearing sandals, there has been much
respect for n artist as a fighter.
Legacy in Sight.
II 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 MS
grandmother, Mrs. Elizabeth z. Earle,
IL East Fifty seventh st., who died
last March. leaving him, 1t Is declared.
$50, 900. His own house was his most
available refuge.
The artist Is the son of the late Gen.
eral Ferdinand Pinney Earle, who was
q we'll to do hotel manager. The SON
studied art abroad where he became a
socialist and other things. He affected
a virgin beard-though that and his
mustache have now been shaved on
and wore sandals, soft hats and real
artistic string ties.
In 1908 he married a French girl.
He built his beautiful house near Mon
zoe, took his wife there and began
painting moonlight scenes and one
thing and another. A son was born
10 him. He then began to see, he
said afterward, that, after all, he dio
not love his wife as a real, dyed-ln-
the wool soul mate. He began writing
Eonnets 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 1t 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 were soul mates, that God
had intended them for each other.
EurIu last Fall tho artist brought his
soul mate to his Monroe home. his wife
being there at the time. The French
wife agreed to go back to her par
ents n sue for divorce. She got 1t
several weeks ago. Earle accompanied
his wife to Hoboken and saw her board
the steamer with her little son for
France, the affinity remaining at his
home for several hours after the couple
had left. 1t was hen the artist got
pack to Monroe that night that he was
nobbed.
Some weeks afterward Miss Kuttner
also left New York for Europe, and
not long afterward Ferdinand Pinney
secured her divorce in Paris, then a
formal official seal vas put upon the
relationship of the I'VE soul mates in
the marriage ceremony. That was
about three weeks ago, 1t is said.
Beard Is Sha ved.
Tie liner Friedrich der Crosse
brought Earle and his newly welded
affinity to Hoboken. He presented a
we'll groomed, natty appearance, quite
different from his careless "tempera-
mental front OF other days. For his
ancient brown SLOUGH hat he wore a
trim little derby. The virgin beard
lad been shaved off and his clothes
we're finely tailored and newly pressed.
Accompanied by his mother, Mrs.
LILLY ". Earle. and his brotherinlaw.
Albert Kuttner, Ferdinand Pinney
earle and his wife started for Jersey
City to take the train for Monroe,
lrailed by a young army OF ~photogra-
piers and reporters.
On the way out to Monroe from
Jersey City the two Mrs. Earles sat
on one seat and behind them sat the
Two men. Behind them were two re-
%pOrters. One of these leaned over and
asked the artist for a statement. The
hewly married man made a back hand
slap at the reporter, hitting him In the
lace 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
matter that was not satisfactory to
him.