The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-17
HENRY HUTT, 37 TOMORROW SINGS. s<OH, GEE, PM
 GLAD I'M FREE!'

"Oh, Gee, I'm Glad I'm Free, IS the sentiment attributed to Henry Hut, world-famous illustrator and arr ttst-no, Geraldine, illustrator and ar tist are not always synonym ous--when months ago. MT. Hutt, who will be thirty years old tomorrow, is a native of Chicago, and has never made any attempt to hide that fact, all of ofoSeW New 4e York ae City. W He % was educat- ed in the public schools and the Art Institute of the Windy City. and was reer as an Illustrator began at the age of fourteen, and he was still a youngster when he won wide fame by his magazine covers and his 1llustra- tions for periodicals and books.
 The blasted romance of Hutts ufe, which had it's tragic finale when q dropping woman with tear-stained 8 Nevada judge last October, began ten years ago. when Miss Edna Gar field Della Tore, professional mod el, who had posed for Charles Dana Gibson and other artists, presented herself at Hutt's studio and asked for an engagement. Hut was 1mme- diately charmed by the applicant, and in short time proposed and was ac- cepted. The marriage was cele- brated early in 1903, and for several years they lived happily together the more perfect in fact and figure than the well-known Miss Venus D. Milo. and that she was a constant source or inspiration.
 On February morning in 1909 Henry Hut sat on the pavement in front of a Broadway. New York, Inn, and convuIsive sobs shaking his frame. He was engaged in throw ing sketches into the gutter and in confiding to sympathetic innocent by islanders that his wife had left him. This was the first intfmation of the domestic inf1elicity of the Hutts. Two years later Mrs. Hut sued for divorce in New York, but the decree was re- fused on the ground of lack of evil dence Then the determined wife went to Reno, where she was more successful in her quest for freedom
 In her petition for a separation. Mrs. Hut alleged that bad compan- ions had been the ruination of the Among those who had exercised a balefuI influence on her Henry, she alleged, were Harrison Fisher and Penrhyn Stanlaws, both artists of pany with his boon companions de- cIared Mrs. Hut. her husband indulg- holic nature. Mir Hut denied the charges as a base libel and said:
 ''Those men-Fisher and Stanlaws-- are among the best friends I have, am in the artistic world. As to my drinking with them or any one else, have been working eighteen hours a day. and you can imagine how much dissipation I could have indulg- ed in during my off hours"
 The artist was quoted as bitterly denouncing his former wife as "un- sympathetic" and asserted that she had extravagantly spent over $95,0o0 thus plunging him deeply into debt.
 Of course, all of these details about the domestic difficulties Of a man and woman are purely personal na- ture, concerning nobody but the prin- cipaIs and are none of your busi- ness You ought to be ashamed of yourself for reading such things, and T hope you are. Haven't you any sense of propriety at all. at all. that you should go peering into private matters that don't concern you? 'Tis not another word I'll tell you, except that, in the old days of love and happiness, Mrs. Hut called Henry called her Princess"