The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-06-19
FRA ELBERTUs. 55 TODAY.
 EXPLAINS HoWsTo BE
 HAPPY, THOUGH MARRIED

Over in England aburning. ques-
 ton of the day is, .Is George Ber nard Shaw serious ?'' On this side of
 the Atlantic EIbert Hubbard, the sage 1 of East Aurora presents a similar problem. Leaving to his countrymen the, task of deciding whether G.sB. s. is i or is not in earnest, one may hazard the guess that Fra EIbertus Is not only serious,z but that he spells the word with a s. But the Fra is also senti- mental, and one of the m ost beautiful
 tributes ever paid to a wife came from his spen-a.nd has enjoyed a large sale.
 sE7bert Hubbard, the G. B. S.@ of America is a product ofEthe West. for he was born in Bloomington, TIL, fifty five years ago today. June ,19, 1859s the son of Dr. Silas Hubbard. He had
 only a common school educatfon, and followed several occupations with more or less success before the. eosnic urge drove him to East Aurora, N. r :, to establish the unique business which has made him both wealthy and .fa- nous.
 On the subject of matrinony. Fra. EIbertus, like G. B. S.. has decided views. He describes polyganny as s.an attempt to. get more out of life than there is in it.,s With the socialists although he is far from being a dis ciple of Marx-he holds that the econ omict independence of the fair sex is necessary to complete happiness in the, state of matrimony-
 1T believe in votes for women.s said the Fra. in one of his lectures. The time is coming when all of them will earn their own living. The clause by. which woman promises to obey a man was put in the marriage service. by the Turks and no one has yet taken it out.''
 The Hubbard philosophy of matri- mony was expressed, some years ago by the F'ra's better half Mrs. Hub bard wrote:
 Were it possible for men and -wo- men when they marry to realize that they own nothing more in rights after marriage than they did before, and would make no more demands upon each other, marriage even with it's present accepted meaning would not
 Of her own experiences Mrs. Hub bard wrote:s
 "I am a, woman. of varied occupa- ton; I supervise the work in large shop. also in a,>Iarge home write a little; farm a little, and am busy from early morning until g o'clock at night with work which must make good
 Marriage has more than fully come up to my expectations. I anticipated the closest friendship ana companion ship of the best friend whom I could Imagine. also knew Emerson's es- say on Friendship and that in order to have a friend must be one. In order to be worthy of living with a friend must be able to live without that friend, expected to give what soever had, in thought, word and deed.
 < If. had it to do over again would [ marry 2 Why. yes, absolutely. Pro videdsI were the same person and my husband the same man. or else mar riage with me would be a failure.
 Tn order for marriage to be a suc- cess it must be new every morning. fresh every evening--the spontaneous joy of living together,
 ''I am economically free. earn ny own living. have never been a l beggar in my life. Before could | earn money I. did not ask for ii. and | ever since have been able to work I [ have always earned what I have | used.''