The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1920-05-08

New York May 3.-Fannie Hurst,
the writer, to-day announced that to-
morrow will be the fifth anniversary
of her wedding.
In acknowledging that she is legal
ly Mrs. Jacques s. Danielson, wife OF
the pianist and composer, b en-
phasized that in everything except
the purely domestic circumstances
that are but an incident of her life,
and that Of her husband, she wishes
to be simply Miss Hurst.
The writer gave details of a re-
markable marital agreement. She
meets her husband only by appoint
ment. They maintain separate studio
apartments. They have averaged two
breakfasts a week together since the
ceremony and by the terms of a pre-
nuptial understanding, neither Is to
give an accounting for the time spent
apart from the other. Miss Hurst
said to-day:
THEORIES WORK
"Our marriage is the result of very
definite theries concerning wedlock.
We decided to sail into the sea of
matrimony in a bark Of our own de-
signing. 1t has not sprung a leak
during five years on the high seas.
We were married by a justice of the
peace. or a magistrate, forget which,
at Lake wood, N. j., on May s, 1915.
Five years g when l met Mr..
Danielson in musical circles l found
that my youthful determination that
marriage was not for me was sud-
z~I. .~-N.-s-4I Dat - 0<A.-r
nation that marriage should never
lessen my capacity for creative work
or pull me down to a sedentary state
of fat-mindedness was not under
mined"
Miss Hurst said she was born in st.
Louis in 1889 and that her husband
vas born in Petrograd 80 years ago.
She added:
Being firmly of the opinion that
nine out of ten of the alliances l saw
about me were merely sordid endur-
ance tests overgrown with the fungi
of familiarity and contempt, con-
WINGED that too often most sacred
human relationship wears off like a
piece of high sheen damask and in a
few months becomes as a breakfast
NAOth ot0AC anu 0Olt OOiACu C665Ldlh5,
I made certain resolutions concerning
what my marriage should not be.
First of all, l am anxious to en-
phasize that our marriage was not
the result of a fad. but simply the
working out of a problem according
to the highly specialized needs of two
professional people.
PROVIDED FOR CHILD
w decided that invariably being
invited to the same social functions
might eventually resolve itself into
the usual married wrangle of drag
ging one another to places we did not
want to go.
1--WE decided that in the event of
offspring. the child should take the
paternal name until reaching the age
of discretion, when the choice should
lie with him. We decided that ac-
counting for our time to one another
would prove irksome and for five
years we have enjoyed our personal
liberty precisely as we did before our
marriage, using, rather than abusing,
the usual privileges we grant one
another. My husband telephones me
for a dinner engagement exactly the
same as scores of my other friends. l
have the same regard for his plans.
We have different sets and circles Of
friends as well as friends in common.
Since nature SO often merely
springs a trap as her means of in
weighing two people into matrimony
we decided that we would try our
marriage for a year and at the end Of
that period go quietly apart II the