The Washington herald., 1920-05-05

foolish; of course agree with
my wife on the sort OF marriage
we entered into" was the declara-
ton today of Jacques S. Danielson.
musical composer and pianist, who
Jumped into new fame yesterday
when his secret marriage five years
ago with Fannie Hurst, the noted
novelist, was announced by Miss
Hurst. The bride still retains her
maiden name and declares she in
tends to continue so doing. Her
husband continued:
."1f l had- not. agreed with my
wife. how do you suppose we ever
would have been married? 1t takes
two to make a bargain and after
all what is marriage but the most
sacred of all bargains?
- We decided to announce the
wedding now because we were tired
OF keeping it a secret. You know
Miss Hurst is an expert on keep
ing a tension and then popping the
surprise at just the psychological
moment Well, we decided that the
moment had come.
Friends Kept silent.
They say that as soon as you
let anyone into a secret it ceases
TO be a secret, but ! think our ex-
perience refutes this. Six persons
knew Of our marriage besides Miss
Hurst's parents AND during fve long
years not one Of them has ever
mentioned it. How's that for a
record?
I'VE shall go on doing the same
as ever. l have my studio in Car
negie Hall and Miss Hurst will do
her work at home. And when we
want to make appointments with
one another, we will call each other
up and ask each others consent 1t
is the only sensible way. II more
persons did 1t. marriages would not
become SO boresome and there would
be fewer unhappy couples
Friends of both Mr.. Danielson
and Miss Hurst wondered today
why they were so blind as to have
failed to notice that despite the fact
that they maintain separate studios
for their work. Mr.. Danielson's tele-
phone number and home address and
those of Miss Hurst were identicai
for some time back. Miss Hurst
laughed today when this was called
to her attention.
Calls IL "Pure Luck
II know; wasn't it funny" she
said. "Al the time nobody guessed.
I suppose that was pure luck. All
you have to do to hide anything
Is to stick it right under persons
noses. They will never see IL then"
Miss Hurst laughed again when
asked where they were going on
their honeymoon.
We won't go on any honeymoon"
she said. a sive-year-eId honey
moon would be rather stale. don't
you Think"
The writer gave details of a re-
marliable marital agreement. She
meets her husband only by an
pointnent. they maintaia sepa rate
studio apartments. they have Aver
aged two breakfasts a week to-
gether since the ceremony. and by
the terms of a pre-nuptial under.
standing neither is to give an sc-
counting for the time spent apart
from the other. Miss Hurst said
today:
Put Theories into Practice,
Our marriage is the result of
definite theories concerning we'd
lock. Five years ago. when I met
Mr.. Danielson, I found that nv
youthful determination that marri-
age was not for me suddenly nm
dermined. But my discrimination
that marriage should never lessen
my capaeity for creative work or
pull me down to a sedentary state
of fat-mindedness was not under
mined" ~.
Miss Hurst was born in ST.
Louis, in 1889. Her husband was
born in Petrograd thirty-nine years
age. She added:
- Firmly of the opinion that nine
out Of ten of the alliances were
merely sordid endurance tests.
overgrown with the fungi of famil-
iarity and contempt, convinced me
that too often the most sacred
human relationship wears OF like
a piece of high sheen damask and
in a few months becomes as a
breakfast cloth, stale. with soft
boiled egg stains, I made certain
resolutions concerning what my
marriage should not be.
Csiis e choose ewn Na,ss.
I'VE decided that invariably be-
ing invited TO the same social
functions might eventually resolve
itself iBto the usual married
wfangle Of dragging one another
TO places we did not want 10 70.
wc decided that Il, the event Of
off-spfing, the cbiid shokid take