The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-05-05
FANNY BURSTS MATE LIVING
 A FREE LIFE
Discussing Secret Trial Mar riage, Says He Never Has
 to Lie to His Wife.

to Al0 JO HIS WAS.
 New York, May 6-The 'fbark of their own designing upon which Fannie Hurst, the author, announced Monday that she and her husband, Jacques E. Danieison, had been se- cretIy sailing th matrimonial sea for five years is a craft just as pleasing to the skipper of the craft as to the first mate. By the skipper is meant Mir Dauielsons Russian pianist and coHaborator with the late Rafael IJoseffy and by first 4nate'' is meant Mrs DanseEson, who means for all her days to.be known as plain Fannie Hurst
 Miss Hurst has expressed exactly 100 per cent-zof my views in the mat ter" the pianist said in his studio in Carnegie hall yesterday. Why if any onee Would know how feel about it just let him ask some married man of five years standing how he would like to- have Q night out without re- sorting to the 3lackneyed sick friend or the sage-pgorn lodge meeting ex- cuse-
 Think of1eadiug ones own life with the reaI joy of a happy partner and none of the petty irrItzdOn of a com panionsIIdp uunatIIrally close and inti- anaaes Think of following ones own 'inc1ination and devosIng an-eveuing to composition alone in ones studio or devoEing oneself to any of a half dozem Ieg1dmzte pursuits without coming. home to a nagging wife who eitherSis in a ta-DEIVFIu or in tears, who either >upa9raiGis one for brEtEsh sel-s 1ishn ess Nor sobs that one has ceasgd to love her C It is -free0omI
 'sAnyone who chooses to. appraise this union ofzours, any man who has ihsitated to take a. mate because he doesn't want to find himself jailed for f1ife, any woman who is nOtzsFilIng to sink her whole identity, must realize that OUT five years of happiness have been founded mutual and explicit trust With suspicion and Jealousy this thIg is not possible. Only the deepest confidence in each other has made possible an arrangement which I may truly describe as ideal We have succeeded through this long Iperiod in going each his or her own way and driving tandem when that best suited our moods
 "A mutual arrangement such as ours means not only mutual sacri- fices, but individual sacrifices No one will deny that the ordinary, lhumdrum marriage demands adjust Tnent There have been those ad- justments with LIS, too, but there is this to be said for our experiment. in return for those sacrifices we have found happiness
 -At any rate, we have been happy for five years, our bark has wealth cred the storms of those first five years which see the wreck of so many matrimonial cruises
 ''WilI your experiment terminate and pass into a quite conventional married life if you become parents?'' asked the next interviewer.
 That is; hard to say" said MT Danjelson. Tt really is thard to tell Heret is Miss Hurst now, may be you had better ask her.
 '+No,' answered Miss Hurst, '-that does not mean that our basis of marriage would be altered It might be adjusted, of course, but I can find no reason why, in essen disls, it should not work just the same. can see no reason at all why a woman with a profession of her own cannot raise her children more efficiently by entrustdng their 1pbringing to a woman who is a professional in that way. That cer- tainly seems to me to be the wiser way, at least, while children are in the younger stage, unfolding like little buds growing into flowers.
 ''I do not, of course, mean that for an instant a mothers love and care should be denied-far from it But much of the work of caring for them should be done by an expert and certainly, I think they will be hap pier, better, wiser children if they are reared under the watchfufness o1 a mother who has been big enough to see beyond their little noses, who has kept on with her own career and made her life as big and broa6 as possible
 "I know dozens of professiona women who have kept up their ca reers yet who have been supremel3 good mothers, women who have made them better little men art women for thetr own wide contac with the world. If that is true and I think it will not be denied by those who know, why cannot m! husband and I continue our happ! domestic arrangement yet do oul full duty and desire by them?''