The Washington times., 1919-06-02
GAVE Up WIFE
TO KEEPR|v
FROMSUICIDE
AUTHOR SAYS

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supreme court a divorce action,
"Kanno versus Kanno," is pending.
The record tells only the fact that
the husband is suing his wife. But
back of it lies q romance of the East
and the West. 1t dates back to 1904,
when Baron Takeshi Kanno, Of the
ruling family of the Samurai, came
! to America to-tell Of Japanese art
and literature. Baron Kanno is one
Of Iapan's leading philosophers and
poets. he married the American
! sculptures, Gertrude Boyle. Now he
is suing her for divorce, and tells his
! story as follows:
81 arrive in America from my
sweet home in japan on July %,
1904. do not know San Francisco,
but ] know Joaquin Miller, the Poet
81. the Sierra, lives there. read
an his poetry.
I Il find Mr.. Miller and say I want
I TO know him. He say You stay here
and i've with me- So live with
Mr.. Miller nine years.
They Were Married.
"11r. Miller want bust made of
his mother, 80 he call Gertrude to
make bust She stay there two years.
I am. lonesome for my Japan Ger
trpde verY pretty girl. I love her and
: ask her to marry me.
I'VE marry and live very happy IN
cottage In Mr.. MIilsr's home on the
| Heights in Oakland, in California.
!! Then q jiu-Jitsu man come along
( and fail In love with Gertrude When
he cannot have her he start to Japan,
and choke himself on boat. On, It
was very horrible. and get much
| worried.
, 81 have proteEe,- Yeitaru Ishigaki.
! Who is twenty-one years old. One
: day he come to me- He look hair in
| sane His face black. He tell me
: that he love my wife, Gertrude. and
must have her. ! ask him what he
; DO IL L not give her up. He say he
T. commit suicide. remember jiu-jitsu
! man and am worried again. 1 say TO
myself. Tt Is your duty to prevent
him from killing himself
Then ] say to him You may love
her but II you take her you break
great moral Law. sYoU must let the
public know that YOU love her Then
ask Gertrude II she love him. but
she say No Soon the newspapers
hear about it. and they print stories
saying mean things about IshiEaki.
They call him home wrecker.' Nv
wife read stories and is sympathetic
Tor 1shigaki and leave me.
He Goes to New York.
I say to myself You must leave
; them alone II they love each other.
You must not 1et-y your love interfere
or he may kill himself. It is your
moral duty TO go away
so come to New York to write
about Japanese art and literature. I
stay here three years Then I learn
that they come here also and have
studio on Fourteenth street. Then
I ten myself that must let public
know that Gertrude no longer loves
me; that she loves IshiEaki. Nv
lawyer asks court for divorce. Jus-
tee Greenbaum asks me simple cues
, lions, when marry her. where I
marry her, and did love her. Ger
trUde she say Dove is life. Love
is everything. I want 10 be free. n
an going to stick to the man love
She Ii 80 Years Old.
I do not know when get my di-
Torce. Maybe three days. Maybe
more II Gertrude loves IshiEaki. she
stay with him. But people must know
that they have broken great moral
law. 1t IL right they should know.
II Is too bad because Gertrude Is
forty-six and IShigaki Is twenty-six.
Maybe when she Is fifty. he not love
her any more"
And thus ends the International ro-
nance which back in 1895 filled the
columns OF the papers OF the East
land the West.
Mrs. Kanno is still working at the
art which produced 'Womanhood"
and Truth" two pieces of sculpture
which made the world gasp when |
they were exhibited She was the
leading young scuIptress Of the |
West when she picked for her hus-
band young Baron Kanno, the poet /
and philosopher. who traces his an
cestry back through Nippon royalty /
for 1000 years