The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-03-22
MONEY VS.. MATRIMONY
[Continued from Ninth Page.

"This new departure of women may de-
crease the number of bad marriages, but it will
make wiser and better ones. Men are even
yet little inclined to resent this new indepen-
dence. They cling to the idea that love must
fade or be spoiled by it; that marriage will
be a less beautiful relation when woman is
something more than pet and dependent,
cnng1ng child. They mistake also our de-
mand for political equality as desire to fol-
low mans methods and steal his perquisites.
We care very little for the brass bands and
torch-lights of politics; we care less for Of
fees What we women hope most from poll
tics is equalization of pay and the opportuni-
ties for individual life that men enjoy"
RACHEL FOSTER AVERY S EXPERIENCE.
"My marriage may be quoted as result of
suffrage training on both sides,n said Rachael
Foster Avery, Secretary of the National
Woman's Suffrage Association. "Both my
husband and myself were born and
reared in anti-slavery and woman's rights
families. His mother is devoted suffrage
worker, while my father was the first man in
the country to pay women printers salaries
equal to men. At the age of twelve l wrote
my first woman's rights essay, and the same
year, Mr.. Avery, then boy of sixteen, wrote
asimilar one in college. We were introduced
years later through suffrage convention; that
is, by a letter from mutual friend in at
tendance. I had long before this become
used to the idea of old-madenhood Very
liberal home training had made me fastidious.
Being fond of children, l had legally adopted
little orphan girl and planned my life with
out reference to marriage. That Introduction
however, brought man whose life and pur-
e;,,
ing domestic platform of love, liberty. and
equality we served notice upon our friends
that the third party had declared its principles.
The Rev. Anna Shaw, Methodist, postponed
couple of suffrage meetings and came on to
Philadelphia to perform the ceremony. She
was assisted by the Rev. Charles Ames, of
Boston, famous Unitarian. We have a
daughter now aged nine months, and who al
ready is member of four suffrage societies of
Chicago, of Cook County, of Illinois, and of
the National. My own happy marriage on the
liberal plan is my answer to this question And
my last conclusion said this young and
charmingly gay-spirited woman, ''assures me
that an equal rights marriage can never be a
failure"
Mrs. Avery wears watch on the face of
which is her husbands picture, and among
the official papers in her handbag was another
| of the same handsome man. The mutual
| alteration of this couple furnishes many stories
| among their friends.
OTHER NOTED WOMEN.
| Said Julia Ward Howe: "With this larger
| liberty comes larger moral outlook. To the
| proper solution of the marriage question all
| other problems are really secondary. This pro-
| gress of woman is going to solve it. The ideal
! marriage is one based upon mutual liberty and
| equality. Only independent human beings
can form union such as marriage should be.
| Such are the opinions of some of the noted
women have talked to. The sayings of others
are equally interesting. Ella Dietz Clymer,
thepresident the Club of Sorosis, says Ameri-
can girls will make better wives as they get
more liberty. Lucy Stone Blackwell thinks
marriage cannot be "a success without there is a
perfect equality of husband and wife, Mrs
Representative Picker, who campaigned with
her husband last fall, says womans progress
elevates marriage and men; and other equally
noted women ever that money-making and
liberty-loving females will marry in the future
even as the coy doves of nineteenth-century
modesty do now, but that their unions will be
nobler and will tend more to the elevation of
the whole human race. Miss GRUNDY, JR.