The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-06-21

Boston, Mass. June 20.-There was
perfect wedding out at Cambridge
the other day-the most unique wed
ding Boston has ever known.
1t was that of Edmund T. Dana,
grandson of the poet Longfellow, and
Miss Jessie Halliday, the pretty little
English portrait painter and suf-
fragist.
There was no minister. no brides
maids, ushers or best man. The cere-
mony was performed by Edmund NJ.
Parker, a well known Boston lawyer
and friend of the family, out In the
open air, under the historical trees of
the Dana estate.
Dana, the son of Richard H. Dana,
like his wife, is a Socialist. He is
Harvard '09 man and assistant in the
department of philosophy at Harvard
University and this month will re-
ceive q Phi. d.
They first met at the Fabian Sum-
mer School in North Wales. The en-
gagement was announced last fall
and the plucky little English girl. who
surely has the courage of her con-
victions, left her home in England and
came to America.
Il consider health one of the most
important things in the ideal hus-
band" the pretty bride recently de-
clared. by health I don't mean alb
sence of disease-people have the most
miserable standards of health. They
call themselves in perfect health If
they are able to get up most days of
the year and walk around with the
aid of stimulants in the way of food,
drink, tobacco, ETC., and if they are
more or less free from headaches.
colds, bad temper, fits of depression
and uncontented desires.
4 imply by health" she continued,
"the abstinence from tobacco, alco-
hol and meat, for these all interfere
with nature.
Then / think a man should have
some great aim in life besides earn
Ing a Livingstone mighty purpose,
to which all his thoughts point re-
ligion or socialism for instance.
Without this a man can have no
heroism.
The ideal husband would believe
of view should be asked and taken
into consideration on politics as in
the home.
IF he is a suffragist he will regard
his wife as an equal with himself;
mind, l do not say the same" she
warned. He will leave entirely in
his wife's control her supreme function
of motherhood-there she is not equal
but superior, to him, as he is superior
to her in his particular life work. if
he has one. All questions to do with
sex should be left to the woman's bet
ter judgment.
Then the ideal husband should
have good life behind him. The
conventional double standard morali-
ty for men and women is vicious.
Women must demand more of
men. They must assert their fas-
tidiousness.
Hitherto women have been stolen,
bought or given away, but civili-
cation is beginning to realize that
woman must be given absolute free
dom to exercise her faculty of choice.
She can then set her value. Men
will become just as strong, honorable
and beautiful in their lives as she de-
mands.
Il think the ideal husband should
love his wife-this sounds like an
absurd platitude, but by love / don't
mean the usual romantic idealiza-
wears out in time. l mean absolute
sympathy with a person. Complete
understanding of his character, it's
faults and qualities, coupled with
an intense interest i'm helping it's de-
velopment and watching its growth
There should be grand co-opera-
ton between man and wife. each
helping the other to evolve their high
est powers OF beauty and utility. In
order for this complete union there
must be absolute confidence and
frankness with each other. All their
fears, hopes. joys, sorrows, aspira-
lions. ambitions, failures and faults
should be shown and shared con-
tinually without pride or reserve that
they may keep In constant under
standing and sympathy.
'.ThAn a man to be an ideal hns-