The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-05-11
BRIDE To give
and TAKE ring
Unique Ceremony to Mark
Wedding Of Poet Longfel-
lows Granddaughter.
MAKES UP OWN VOWS
Miss Della Dana Gives Her Views on
Marriage and Voices Some
Advanced Ideas.
MAKES UP OWN vows

Boston, May 10-Delia F. Dana, grand
daughter of the poet Longfellow, and sis
ter Of Edmund Trowbridge Dana, who
married Jessie Holiday, the English por-
trait painter, with a unique ceremony Of
their own composition without maids or
minister and with the trees for a canopy,
plans an Identical service when she weds
Robert III. Hutchinson, a fellow-Socialfst,
next June at the family summer home,
Manchester-hy- the-Sea.
With her husband, Miss Dana will leave
Immediately for New Zealand, there to
study State socialism with the hope OF
applying its principles in Philadelphia,
where Mr.. Hutchinson finally will en-
gage in teaching.
Miss Dana and Mr.. Hutchinson have
been acquainted for six years. He is now
in the graduate school at Harvard,
preparing for his work as a teacher.
Miss Dana is a student at Radcliffe
College. She is a graduate of the Bos-
ton Childrens Hospital and of the post
graduate department Of Johns Hopkins
in Baltimore.
Seated in the great front room OF the
Longfellow house, with many mementoes
of the great poet on every side. including
the ever famed grandfather 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 pertinently
and Interestingly of marriage and its i'm
portance.
In the first place. said Miss Dana,
I'VE don't intend to use the formal vows.
Instead the one my brother used with
slight variations will be availed OF.
[ will say.
Each 10 Receive Ring.
81. Della F. Dana take you, Robert
II. Hutchinson, as my lawful husband and
promise faithfully to fulfill toward you
ill the obligations arising from the mar
ried state and / hope to be a true COM
rade and hepmate; as symbol thereof,
I give you this ring
LAS ] say the last words I will slip on
MIR. Hutchinson's third finger of the left
nand a heavy silver ring. Mr.. Hutchin-
sons vows will be on the same lines save
that he will give me gold band in
stead OF silver one.
"A Justice of the peace will marry us
instead of minister. We are not be-
levers in any other set faith
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 profession, such
as nursing. for example 1t is a definite
work yet few women are really prepared
for the bringing up of children. l, how
ever. have had a fine training in the care
of and raising of children, have made
close study of eugenics and am of the
opinion that I am fitted for the marriage
state with all its duties
81 have made close study of marriage
and I have come TO the conclusion that
race suicide, as II is termed. is not al
together wrong. If a union is completed
wherein there is health, morally and
physically, then there should be children
as often as nature will bless the mar
rage. But where conditions are not con-
iuctive to a healthy being, then, in my
opinion, there should not be offspring"