Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1920-01-26

LEAP YEAR OUT OF A JOB.

most enthusiastic Advocates of
adopting children. Mrs. Pank-
hurst herself has a home full Of
adopted orphans, and her own
daughter, Christabel, has legally
adopted one.
1T has been one Of the handi-
caps to Tomen's careers that they
we're compelled to sacrifice home
life. All women need normal
home life," says Mrs. Pankhurst,
and with the adoption Of child
or several children the business
woman of today may have q real
home. At the same time she does a
great deal Of good to society by
helping to right some of its injus-
tees"
Still others who have been pa
tiently waiting for the new and
salubrious marriage which was to
come out Of the war, believe that
they have found Il in the economic
independence Of the sexes. They
argue that matrii1ony is not neces-
sarily handicap to the career Of
either sex, and that women earning
a hundred dollars a week are just
as capable OF domestic happiness,
possibly more SO. than those earn
ing nothing. Matrimony of this
sort is now very prevalent in New
York. One meets it coming home
in the subway rushes, at the gro
Gerry stores, and in cheaper restau-
rants, partaking Of hurried
breakfast before going its separate
way for the day.
Many of the professional women
who embark on such matrimonial
adventure insist upon retaining
their own names, and arc known
by everybody as Miss So-and-So"
instead of Mrs" This is occasion
ally embarrassing when registra-
ton is required at hotels, but for
the most part it seems to do very
nicely. 1t is usually the woman
whose name is we'll known and of
a certain franchise value who is
arbitrary on this point, but the
practice has become popular.
/
woman attorney of some note, or
perhaps it was a campaign man
ager, asserted in the press that she
not only believed a woman should
keep her own name after marriage,
hut that her children should take
Der name. A father, she pointed
out. would be only an incident in
the process of Irocreat'on. 1t was
the mother who had all>t the bother
CT bringing the child into tie
world, and raising it. Il this rrac-
tice were in vogue, she said, then
there would be no illegitimate chill
dren.
One of the most picturesque es-
pousers Of the economically indie
pendent and maiden name marriage
is Nina Wilcox Putnam, of popular
fiction fame. who has planned her
marriage on the latest model. This
young authoTess was formerly the
wife of a publishing house Putnam
and has young son by that name
Having acquired hc1 fame as an
aulhCress under the name of Put.
nam, however, she decldod to keeI
it when she recently married Rob-
Ell: ]. Sanderson. who is the man.
ager of New England telephone
company. She also decided to &C
fright on living in her ancestral
home, "The Christmas Trees" il
Madison, Conn. while her new hus.
band went right on living in his
bachelor apartment in Bridgeport
Corn. which IS his business head.
quarters. They spend their weei
ends together, and occasionally
they take trip to New York, where
they both share the upkeep of al
apartment. When recently asked
Why she didn't move to Bridgeport
to live with her husband, she re.
piled in surprise, why really. you
know, 1 never thought of that"
| The greatest Ginning example O.
a successful marriage of this type
was that of the celebrated scientist
Havelock Ellis, and his wife, who
maintained separate establishment!
next door to each other at Corn
wall, England. Mrs. Ellis, who be
Iieved in the economically indie
pendent wife, supported herself b.
writing and farming and lecturing
They both believed that boredom
was the greatest handicap in mar
riage, and they did not permit it tt
handicap theirs. When DR.. Eli.
got tired of Cornwall he went VI
to his apartment in London ant
lived for months, and when Mrs
Ellis got tired of Cornwall sh.
came to America for a prolonged
visit. But, according to DIR. Ellis
own confession, they wrote to eaci
other every day.
DR.. Ellis thinks that the war ha!
changed marriage for good; tina
women, having tasted the fun o
economic Independence, will Ieyel
| 20 back to the old way. Tie prob
lem now" ne says. "is for the maj
to catch up with the woman. H,
must either help to lessen her 90
nestle burdens o. share them witt
her"
So, you see, it looks as if the va,
lad made leap year and all cthei
forms of feminine aggression a ger
'r.arent thing.