The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-05-03

enlist and writer DR. Havelock
Ellis. whose work in six volumes on sex
psychology and other studies Of sex Ques-
tions are accepted as text books both
In England and this country. In an
interview with reporter Of THE SUNDAY
Sun Mrs Ellis speaks OF these particular
publications as representing the best
OF large output according to her ideas.
A Dr.. Ellis has never been In this ooun-
try she describes him for her questioner
as having much OF the seer in his aspect. a
suggestion Of an inspired poet
Some people," she says reminiscently.
find that he looks like the portraits Of
Thomas Carlyle; some contend that he
Is the living image Of Edward Carpen-
ter, while others again remark on his
likeness to Bernard Shaw. /? Oh. l
think he looks ike-Havelock Ellis
There il a group Of distin gIished peo-
pie who foregather constantly in the
Ellis home in London. where DR.. Ellis
does his work and where Mrs. Ellis makes
fitting visits when her lectures and her
writing. great deal OF which she 40
complishes in country solitudes. permit
the couple, who do not consider side
by eide life at all necessary to their work
or play. to come together. One OF these
visitors is Olive Schreiner. who has re-
gently returned to London from Flor-
enoe, where she was recuperating for
long time. Mrs Ellis describes her as
being sadly broken by the many disap-
pointments of her South African life and
experiences but as still preserving her
charm and beautiful fervor. In differ
ent form. that OF fiction. Mrs. Havelock
Ella has promulgated many Of the theo-
ries and truths that Olive Schreiner has
put into her books. notably woman and
Labor"
At IS Mrs. Ellis already felt the spirit
OF revolt which has led 10 many women
In modern times to break away from the
conventional ideas She became secre-
tary Of the New Life Fellowship Society.
which was then allied with the Fabians.
DR.. Havelock Ellis. then young man
Of great promise and some attainment.
used TO go TO the New Life Fellowship
meetings. They became friends and In
due course OF time were married. Mrs.
Ella was 80 at the time and thinks this
the ideal age for marriages.
Il don't see how woman dare marry
until she has seen something OF life.
known human nature and is capable OF
judging men. No girl in the teens or early
twenties is mature enough in her judSI
ment for such step" she says
some advanced thinkers were already
discussing the advantages OF what later
came TO be called the trial marriage. Mrs
Ellis received the proof sheets OF bro
chure she had written on this question on
has N In
sat down and calmly corrected them. 1t IL
an attitude toward life and art they have
preserved intact during their twenty
two years of matrimony. Mrs. Ellis says
that the greater part OF what she wrote
then she stands sponsor for to-day. In
this pamphlet, entitled a Novitiate fol
Marriage she says
An apprenticeship to marriage which
would be a noyitiate for fatherhood anc
motherhood. as we'll as a training in house
hold management. il surely no more tt
be feared by right minded men and wolner
than an apprenticeship to the army OF
navy. Custom declares that an engage
rnent shall be announced before ev Ell
mountaineering in its full sense Is begun
legal marriage IL clamored for AZ a pre-.
cautionary measure before mutual knowl.
~6&e.
'.alt 40 many marriages are tolerably
happy, and thai -cs.,- few are unreRretted
is surely due to the fact that In spite OF
oM haphazard wooing. some unknown
spiritual law of affinity takes the side OF
10 in the game Of life. A norItlate III
marriage. as open as an engagement.
would surely minimize the gambling els-
ment in modern unions and pave the way
to true monogamy. which to-day with
prostitution and secret temporary unions
accepted as inevitable evils in simply a
name responsibility and idealis'n accept
but life too frequently denies.
If by mologany Wa mean one man
having onr woman, and one woman
cleaving to one man for sexual love. WI
all know II We are out of our teens that the
inonogamic marriage IN Great Britain /,
either extinct or has never really evolved
Tn" latter il surely the real state Of afYalr,
Ind II Is ,Ao tendency ol modern progress,