New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-20
SILENCE MAKES WIFE SUI
Saws Dentist Husband Held
Tongue Three Months Straight.
HER FAULT, PERKINS AYERS
Too Friendly with Young Law
yer, Mamaroneck Man An
swers in Separation Suit.

There Is a cavity In the matrimonial re-
lations Of Mrs F'rieda Perkins and her nus
band Bertram Raymond Perkins, a denuSt
at No 40 East fist street. 1t is a hollow
ness that the wife seeks to fill with de-
cree of SEPARATION for which she suing IN
the supreme Court The pain that goes with
II ali f. temporarily assuaged with $50 n
week as alinony. in which regard 1t Is dll-
ferent from filing a molar with solo, ior
one Pains the giyer and the other the re-
Ceivcr.
Mrs Perkins brings her suit on the
ground Of cruelty one OF the allegations is
that for about three months prior to
her leaving her husband he refused 10
talk TO her. The period of silence ne
San in July and when, as the plain
tin saws. she could no longer stand II,
she took their three children and went 10
her mother. That was on September I. Also
Mrs. Perkins complains the dentist used to
make her go TO bed At 80 o'clock BOW
ever in view Of the fact that the family
lived at NIanaroneci. this allegation IT was
suggested Yesterday may not figure so I'M
portantIy ut the trial OF the action.
when tho couple were married IN 1903
Mrs Perkins was a girl Of not quite seven
teen wears and her appearance made her
look even more youthful. she was a Normal
school pupil and wore her dresses short and
her hair hung pendent The oldest of the
ccuplc's three children Is q boy, and just N
show what an impression the treatment 'l
Perkins has made mon him Mrs Perkins
rocites that once when he wanted other chil-
drer 10 play with him. he said Come on
Jet ms play house. and III yell at YOU Ike
papa Wells at mamma
Mrs Perkins said in her application Tor
alironv that her husband has an income OF
81 o00 q month and on this figuring she
asked $3.50 q week alimony. But Justice
Blur allowed her $50 a week, with an extra
5000 for her lawyer.
Perkins is 2 high Mason and IN making
his denial Of his wife's charges he says That
he Joined several orders connected with Ma
sonrv 10 crafty the social aspirations of his
wife. And them he says, Mrs. Perkins was
ostra ciZod by the social circles thus cult
waited on account Of the alleged friendship
existing between her and a young lawyer,
whose name he does not mention because
as the defendant says, IT would ruin his
career There were numerous clandestine
telephone communications between Mrs.
Perkins and this lawyer, Perkins says, and
they mad a telephone password At one
time this password was Good evening.
Mrs Perkins denies that her acquaint-
ance with the young lawyer was anything
more than the ordinary exchange Of polite
courtesies between neighbors, for the law
ycr lived close to the Perkins home. Per-
kins denies that his income Is $1,000
month.
Mrs Perkins is now at the home of her
mother. Before the trouble in the house
hold Mrs. Perkins says she 'worshipped
and idollzed' her husband and that she
stopped going to the station to meet him only
when the cares Of the house and of the three
children became so arduous that she could
not get away. And he would not let her en-
ploy servant