New-York tribune., 1921-05-30


neck and drew the handkerchief up
higher.
lis 1t true that your wife has made
charges against you and seeks an an
nulment of her marriage, charging
fraud?" White was asked.
IT'S all true. You boys can go the
limit" he answered. "It's simply that
these French American marriages don't
turn out we'll It's different tenn
permanent, n different strain and they
don't turn out we'll, Thirty-three per
cent OF thnso war marriges didn't, so
what does it matter If one more failed
IT'S simply u matter of the inability Of
the French and American tempera-
ments to get together"
White said that he had met his wife
during the Lenten season in Paris at
bazaar, He was introduced to her by
widow, a mutual friend, he said
"You know how these things are,"
White said, speaking OF his courtship
II really think there is whole lot of
good in this girl, that wife of mine. |
hcpe she won't do anything that will
darken herself in order to shield me-
Yes, told her was an agitator but
I don't believe that l made her fully
perceive my commitment to the cause
of social reconstruction. Yes, intro
duced her to radical friends of mine,
also endeavored to change her social
viewpoint. These friends of mine were
members of the Intercollegiate Social
list Society and among them was Louise
Adams Grout. They didn't seem to
make much impression on her"
Easing himself gently out of the
swing fashioned of birch saplings, the
advocate of social upheaval got up and
said:
"To speak quite frankly of this thing,
thought, and still think, that was
doing something for that girl when
married her. l dreamed a dream of
elevating her. But the French temper
ament, especially the French feminine
temperament, prevented this"
White blushed even more deeply than
he did before when he was asked point
blank: "You were tarred and feathered.
weren't you?"
"No, no; that isn't true" he said,
reddening.
White fnched at the suggestion. A
picture of the twelve masked men, de-
termined and aroused. may have flashed
through his mind. He thought of the
long, slow, painful climb, after he had
been set down after promise that he
would do the right thing by his wife,
climb up hill of thirteen miles to his
home.
Didn't some men visit you last Mon
day night?"
Eyes, about 10 o'clock, when / was
alone in the house, heard knock on
the door. | went out and saw the ead-
lights OF three automobiles. / was in
my night clothes. Five men came for
ward. One Of the men said to me-:
"'We've come up to see you about
the way you treated this little girl
Let's talk this over,' suggested.
but they laid hands upon me and han
died me roughly. They took ma in aa
automo oblle and drove me to a place
near Newburgh. The people were city
toughs," White said emphatcally; "they
weren't local people"
The question Of the tar and feathers
was pressed, and White admitted that
there was talk of tar and feathers, but
that he had not been treated With IA
coat of it.
81 was let out near Newburgh and
then walked uphill home. When they
let me out they asked if l would prom
ise to do the right thing by my wife.
did. don't intend to defend the
annulment action. I have offered to
pay her fare back to Paris"
Love for Wife Has Departed
White admitted that he no longer
loves his wife.
~ admire her good qualities" he
said.
To similar question Mrs. White
shrugged her shoulders vivaciously and
replied;
But why do you ask?"
White denies that he is Bolshevist.
a Socialist or an Anarchist. He con-
tenos that he is simply endeavoring to
reconstruct along Christian lines.
"The fact that l married this girl
proves that | am not an Anarchist" he
said
shrouded by the legal phraseology of
the complaint filed in the annulment
action and hidden away is another rea-
son for the. desire of the twenty-year-
Did bride for the dissolution of her
marriage. The former pastor, uncon-
ventional in most things. is alike m
conventional in his. thoughts on mar
rlage. and to these thoughts the French
girl found it impossible to resign her