The sun., 1916-12-15
Eva WARD SAILS TO
RAISE CHILDREN
British Feminist. q Stuff No
Longer, Secretly Weds
Gilbert Rowe.
WANTS A LARGE FAMILY
After Honeymoon on Wool
worth Tower They Decide
to Return to England,

Eva Ward. English feminist. sailed
for her native country yesterday on the
steamship Baltic after . stay Of some
years In this country. but she returns to
England neither English. nor = feminist.
nor even Eva Ward.
She is not Eva Ward any longer. be-
cause recently she acquired husband.
She kept him very dark. after the fash
ion Of the New Woman. but his exist
ence leaked out in the process Of getting
passports. and his name is Gilbert Rowe.
She Is no longer English. because she
married an American. and when she
goes to the sleepy little suburb Of Lon.
don where her people have lived for
generations she will have to report
periodically, like any other alien. to the
fat old bobby" that she used to tease
a. a child.
This indlsnity. this reminder that q
woman il not an individual. but Is
merged, as II were. in her husband. ought
10 make any feminist q double dyed
feminist but Mrs. Rowe simply doesn't
care. She ID going. she declared yester-
day, to devote herself to the care Of chill.
dren, nrst, the two children of her sister.
who wants TO b free to 90 to the
trenches IN France A. = doctor. she hav-
ing the necessary training. Mrs. Rowe
also said that she hoped for nothing so
much ~ that she and Gilly' would have
q large family Of their own.
Fifty.Afy On Fee.
Mrs. Rowe didn't drop her feminist
ideals right away when she married. She
insisted OH the ceremony being Dutch
treat. and when Alderman Curran. who
spliced the teo In City Hall. said: 81,
please" she planked down so cents and
Friend Husband dug down in his trousers
for nifty. and they marched contentedly
away. When Mr.. Rowe difiidently in
vited his bride to take a ferry ride to
Staten Island at his expense. by way Of
honeymoon. she put her foot down hard
"A trip 10 the top OF the Woolworth
Tower will make q very nice wedding
Journey" she said. Accordingly they
boarded an express elevator. held hands
on the roof for while. and then de-
scended to the ground and took street
cars to their separate and individual
Jobs.
But as time went on--the wedding
occurred something more than q year
aGo-as time wore on the suffragists
who claimed Eva Ward as one OF their
most ardent leaders. saw signs OF de-
| terioration in her. She was no longer
the vigorous. keen eyed propag " ands,
who landed In this country hvc years
ago. chock full OF the mission Of the
| Constitutional SufYragists OF England.
LOnEed for ChiIdr~n.
She was no longer the astute politi-
clan. She betrayed a disposition TO go
home. She would break away from the
most animated discussion OF the iniqui-
ties OF AsQuith and Elihu Root and other
antis to seek her hreside. She was
seen everywhere with her husband. She
openly avOwed that she thought the most
beautiful thing on earth was to have
many children and devote herself TO
them. and she said she was tired OF
politics.
Thus. while her friends on thl. side
are sorry to have Eva Ward 20 and
will miss her as an individual. they feel
that In the suffrage sense she was gone
even II she stayed.
The happy pair had hard time "a
get out OF the country. Passports are
not easy things TO get these days. ant
the Rowes had 10 live in Washington
for week before they could softer
the hearts OF the ofic!sls. Mrs. Row,
says history repeats itself. for she hat
trouble breaking into America. She was
under contract to suffrage organiza
ton in New York. having engaged "a
work for this organization. hut the ai!er
contract labor law forbids Just such ar.
rangements go she had to sail for tn
Bermudas instead. and after she hat
stayed In those islands for n time she
proceeded to the United States ION a va
cation"
Gilbert Rowe is New York lawyer
but has homo in his wife's countr,
and intends to live there now.