New-York tribune., 1921-06-01
| 'oetry Versus
Babies Secret
OF White Tiff {
Bride of Wife Beater Says
He Read Hor Byron and
Shelley, Declared Book
Would Be heir Child
Dishes a Year Unwasheei
Threats of Further Violence
Subside; Preacher Visits
Town, No Missiles Hurled
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MARLBORO, N. W May 3l.-Bouck
White preferred books in the home and
Mrs. Bouck White preferred children.
These marked preferences on the part
of both accounted for much of their
me ritsl unnloasantness, Mrs. White ad-
mi ted to-day.
Mrs. White discussed her husband,
herself and their domestic affairs dur
ing an automobile ride to the Marlboro
Mountain House, on towering peak
OF the Shawangung range, where she
| has lived since her break with the
former pastor of the Church Of the
Social Revolution.
While Mrs. White was explaining
her husbands thoughts Oh q spiritual
union White was lolling comfortably
in his Ulster County garden spot,
talking about his wife's charges, adj
| mitting some of them, and expressing
his plans for the founding Of liberal
center.
Bouck passed the most peaceful day
since Mrs. White packed her bslong.
ings and trudged, with tears in her
eyes, down the mountain road to the
Marlboro Mountain House, where Will
liam McElrath welcomed her. Threats
of further violence, which have been
hurled back and forth in the village
inn. at the pump opposite the fire
house and on street corners. are still
threats. White to-day drove his cough
ing, tumbledown fiivver down the hills
and through the very center of town.
! Not vegetable was hurled at him.
Treated Her Rs a Pupil
Mrs. White laughed heartily on the
porch of the Marlboro Mountain House
as she rcalled some of her experiences
at "Bouck Whites place"
HE would talk three hours at a time
about his political views without stop
gesticulating and nervous. My hus-
band was the professor, the pupil.
He treated me like child"
"Did White show his affection 7"
Mrs. White was asked.
"It was not possible to do so during
courtship because OF the French Gus
tom," she explained. "We were never
alone together till after we were
married. Mr.. White, however, was not
very affectionate. I would say he was
cold. On the wsy over on the Aqui-
tania he read poetry to me. Byrons
Chllde Harold and poems by Shelley
and Keats"
AS soon as they reached this country
White explained his conception Of
marriage to her. she said
"Mr White told me-" she continued,
Chat an ideal marriage was a spiritual
istic affair. 1t consisted of three meals
day, he said, with the husband work
ing in his field and the wife working
in hers. Regarding family life he
said that he did not want to have chill
write book together and that would
be our child.
Wanted Wife as Apostle
"Fhis was the main subject Of our
discussion. He said we could be happy
trying to change the world. He wanted
to fill me with his political ideas so
that I could spread them to followers
who would be attracted to the liberal
colony in the hills that he desired to
establish"
Mrs. White then spoke bitterly of the
neglected mountain retreat to which
she had come to pass honeymoon.
filth" she said, "and the broken fur
niture, the unsanitary cooking things
and the careless arrangement of the
store right in the middle of the living
room, he answered, sans cesse, by re-
peating his definition of education. He
told me that education consisted of
adapting ones self to ones environ
ment. why, the two men that we had
brought up from New York took one
look at the place while we went to
Marlboro to get our luggage and left.
! believe that if we had used the pots
found that appendicitis would have re-
suited.
az told Mr.. White that unless he fixed
things UP | should prefer to go back
to France. He said that that would
mean a terrible scandal and would be
embarrassing TO him in his future
political life. For our first dinner we
| had eggs, bread and some butter which
/ had remained from the year before
Then he ordered me to clean up things
knives, forks, plates, which had beer
neglected for year I worked sloWl,
and without zest. During the first da,
Mr.. White was little gentle TOWARD
me, evidently feeling little sorry
"But the next morning at 6 oclocl
he ordered me to get up, and l, think
iro hc was joking, refused to do SO
Es picked me up and shook me ant
asoptea he TO the floor. / struggled
with him and scratched him. Ther'
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