The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1921-01-25
WARNS AGAINST
FOREIGN HUBBY
Nine. Tartoue Hopes American
Girls Will Profit by Her Un-
fortunate Experience.
Wife OF PORTRAIT PAINTER
Says European Men Are Not Brought
Up With the Ideals Of Marriage
and Womanhood That Amer
lean Men Are.

New YOrk.-"If American girls who
are contemplating marriage with for
eigners will only listen to me and
take warning from my unfortunate ex-
perience with a distinguished for
eigner, to whom 1 gave my love and
devotion, 1 will feel repaid in a meas
ure for the ordeal through which l
have passed and the humiliation l
must now endure.
Most men from the continental
European countries are not brought
up with ideals of marriage and wom-
anhood which American girls are
They make bad husbands for an
American girl, and my advice to girls
is to pick out an American for a hus-
band"
That is what Nine Pierre Tartoue,
wife of the noted portrait painter,
said in discussing her marriage and
her suit for separation just started.
Mr.. TartOue Is said to be in the
Adirondacks. His studio is said to
have been sublet to Rene Van Len
nap, a friend.
Since Nine. Tartoue departed from
her home over a month ago in the
middle OF the night, following a Sc
ries Of alleged sensational incidents
in and near the studio, she has been
living i'm seclusion with her mother,
Mrs. +. Bengue Barnett.
Tells of Persecution.
Light on the nature of her dis
agreement, with her husband was shed
by Nine. TartOue during her inter
view. She said:
1.-THE persecution to which I was
subjected by two elderly women will
be made public during the trial.
81 lent myself to Pierre for pub
licity purposes much against my Owr
inclination. He told me it would helI
him.
81 lent him money as we'll, as most
American girls who marry foreign
ers find they are obliged to do fol
the sake of preserving their homes
and saving their husbands from finan
cial difficulties. My family ant
friends have reason to know intimate
details concerning these financial
transactions.
II sacrificed myself on the altal
Of Pierre's art and / soon discovered
he did not appreciate it. This l!
my attitude toward my husband.
have no animOsity in my heart, Onl!
pity.
after | was Pierre's wife he con
stantly told me 1 was no longer al
American woman. He said / was un
! der the French law, because l hat
| married French citizen. He tOlt
| me l would have to bear half thu
! expense of our establishment ant
! that French women had no rights.
Helped in His Work.
Pierre told me he was madly il
love with me. l was madly in low
with him. He told me and told m,
| friends / was the most beautiful
American girl He told me l was al
l. inspiration to him in his art. BE
Iieving implicitly in him and in hi
! genius, l helped him every way
could. l even posed for him for POI
traits of myself, and I posed for tn
hands and gowns of some of his bes
portraits. Among those were tn
portraits he painted last year of Mrs
Frederick Brooks of New York, Mrs
Harold Brooks and Miss Ruth Shoel
hOpf of Buffalo.
| After he had painted a pOrtrai
Of me with my wedding veil over m
! head, some critics told him it wa
one of the best pieces of work h
had ever done. When he painted tn
! God of Happiness which now hang
in the Alfred l. du POnt home o
Long Island, l helped him with m
suggestions
81 found, however, that Pierre di
not appreciate me. With my ow
hands l used to cook him little stu
i diO dinners so that at the end @
the day, when he was tired out frOr
painting, he would not have to g
out for dinner. Those were halcyO
days when Pierre and / were by Oul
selves night after night in our str
diO. l could hardly believe the thin
was real, it was so ideal.
''We were married October ii, 191!
and will never forget the promise
he made that day, for he did nc
| keen q single one of them"