The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1920-10-28
\ WHY MEN MARRY =
WHY MEN MARRY
BN Jane Dixon.

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Y for the most part. and marry for
purely elemental rcason>-Ioyc. a
y home, children.
H "FANNIE HURST"
Is there any writer OF today who
H gets closer to the human heart. who
pounces upon the funny little kinks
\ and cross-Currents that go to make
mp individual humanity and holds
them up to the public gaze like this
breezy young woman from the banks
\ of the Mississippi
/ Fannie Hurst has a way OF sitting
in with the family at the table with
| the red cloth and the Clipped china.
and gathering all there is OF smiles
or tears at the board
She can 20 from thence directly to
the high Ceilinged. crystal chambered
drawing room and come out with an
equal quantity of lfe's sweet and hit
ter tucked away in her notebook.
And when it comes TO transferring
these real life observations and ex-
periences to paper there is no con-
temporary writer who can outphoto-
graph Fannie Hurst
All this that you may know the
declaration of the St Louis girl with
the magic in her pen is worthy of the
most serious consideration
"Men think very simply and clear
ly on the subject of marriage" says
Miss Hurst. They either want or
they do not want.
Women More Complex.
Women are vastly more complex
in their reasons for committing mat
rimOny. They are aCtuated by
variety OF reasons of their
future being one of the most fire.
quent
who is going to take care of them
when the home neSt-egg is Matched?
Some male must take fathers place
as provider. Any number of
women, bordering this problem. grow
panicky and grab the first reasonable
offer of marriage that happens along
for fear it will be their last. THE
man is a minor consideration. Ii is
getting married that counts-insur-
ance bought and paid for.
That" sighed the speaker. lis the
way things stood during the Dark
Ages of MatrimOny. from which we
are only now beginning to find deliv-
erance
Thank heavens. women have dis !
covered they have a couple of feet to !
stand on and two hands to work with !
and a brain for their own thoughts |
and SPINE. They have found |
they can buy their own insurance |
policy on their future. 1t means a /
revolution of the entire marriage |
market. 1t means better husbands, |
better wives, better children.
For marriage is no longer going !!
to be blind surrender to the newt |
able 1t is going to be selective |
A woman will marry the man she !
wants. not the man she feels she
must take. A man will marry a |
comrade wife, not a propagation
plant"
Like OvergrOwn Boy.
Fannie Hurst sat very straight and
tense in the great Spanish chair
where she had flung herself Her
dark eyes danced with the earnest !
ness she put into her subject A
deeper crimson dyed her plump |
cheeks. already spanked to flame by |
the sharp winter wind. She is such |
a healthy. good-natured vital sort. |
this woman of unquestionable wit. |
She reminds one of nothing so much |
as an overgrown boy bent on getting |
all the fun out of life and succeeding |
admirably.
81 know we are all pretty well fed |
up on this subject of woman and her
economic independence. but it is like
the new toy Johnnie gets for Christ
mas. He can't do anything for
awhile but play with it.
Men do not like the subject so
much. Why should they? AS it is
today they feel they are being de-
prived of something they cherished
very dearly, the home woman. What
an absurdity. AS if woman could
not be a model homemaker and an
economic unit as well. | should
hate to think | was incapable of hold
ing down two jobs. neither of which
need interfere with the other.
"Fortunately,it is not going to take
real men long to discover the
economically independent woman is !
the safest. the worthiest and the most
selection for purposes of
THE woman who has proven self
sufficient in the matter of earning a {
living will not whine. She has no |
time to nag She understands the [