The Hartford republican., 1913-05-16
PLAN TO we'd With
unique RITUAL
Matrimony Like AnyChosen
Work, Woman Says.
Declares Race Suicide Not
Wrong Under Certain
Conditions.


granddaughter of the poet Longfel-
low; and sister of Edmund Trow-
bridge Dana, who married Jessie Hal
Today, the English portrait painter
with a unique ceremony of their own
composition, without the maids or
minister, and with the trees for
canopy, plans an identical service
when she weds Robert p. Hutchin-
son, a fellow Socialist next June at
the family summer home, Manchester
by-the-Sea. And with her husband.
Miss Dana will Immediately leave for
New Zealand, there to study State
Socialism with the hope of applying
it's principles in Philadelphia, where
MIR. Hutchinson will finally engage
in teaching.
Miss Dana and Mr. Hutchinson have
been. acquainted for six years. He
is now in the postgraduate school at
Harvard, preparing for his work as
teacher.
Miss Dana is completing philo-
sophical course at Radcliffe, paying
especial attention to the works of
Tolstoi. She is a graduate Of the
Boston Children's Hospital and Of
the postgraduate department Of Johns
Hopkins, Baltimore.
Seated in the great front room Of
the Longfellow house with many me-
mentoes of the great poet on every
side, including the ever-famed grand
fathers clock" Miss Dana, petite
of form, with a wealth Of golden
hair that refused to remain in place
and with her frank blue eyes spark
ling with good humor, talked per-
tinently and Interestingly Of marriage
and it's importance.
"In the first place. said Miss
Dana, 1--WE don't intend to use the
formal VOWS. Instead, the one my
brother used with slight variations
Twill be availed.
| 81 will say: 4, Della Dana, take
you, Robert Hutchinson, as my law
full husband and promise faithfully
to fulfill towards you all the poli-
cations arising from the married
state, and / hope to be a true COM
rade and helpmate; as a symbol
thereof l give you this ring"
"As / say the last words l will slip
on Mr.. Hutchinson's third finger of
the left hand a heavy silver ring. Mr.
Hutchinsons vow will be the same
lines, save that he will give a gold
band, instead of a silver one.
"A justice of the peace will marry
us instead of a minister. We are not
Episcopalians nor are We believers
in any other set faith. We will not
use the usual marriage VOWS. We will
take vows for only what we believe
Zone must be sincere in such step
and regret to say that l believe few
really consider the solemnity Of such
q union"
| Miss Dana declares she is entering
matrimony as she would any chosen
work. She said
Marriage is a calling that should
be studied as one would any profes-
sion, such as NURSING, for example
1t is a definite work get few women
are really prepared 7 t bringing
up of children. l, LoN yer, have had
a fine training in t. : care cf and
training of childror. / hGS made {
close study of eugenics and am oI
the opinion that l am fittel for mar
riage with all its duties.
81 have made close study Of mar
riage and have come to the conclu-
sion that race suicide. as 1t is term
ed, is not altogether wrong. IL g
union is completed wherein there n
health, morally and physically, then
there should be children as often az
Nature will bless the marriage. But
where conditions surrounding the
child are not conductive to a healthy
being. then, in my opinion, there
should not be offspring"
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