The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-02-13

ing TO right sone Of it's iniustices ;.
sun others who have been patiently
waiting for the new and salubrious
marriage which was to, come out of the
war believe that'they have found 1t in
the economic independence, of the sexes,
| Ihey arrue that matrimony is not
necessarily handicap to the career or
either sex. and that women earning
300 a week are Just as capable of
aomestic happiness, posstbIvs more so,
| than those earning nothing. Matfi-
mony of this sort is now very prevalent
in New York, One meets it coming
home in the subway ru6hes, at the
grocery stores, and in cheaper restau-
rants, partakirg of a 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,
ana are known by everybody as Miss
So-and-So,' instead of Mrs" This is
occasionally embarrassing when regis
tration is required at hotels. but for the
most part it seems to do very nicely.
1t is usually the woman whose name is
well known and Of certain franchise
value who is arbitrary on this point, but
the practice has become popular
Only the other day a young woman
| attorney of some note. or perhaps it
was campaign manager. asserted in
the press that she not only believed a
| woman should keep her own name after
marriage but that her children should
take her name, A father, she pointed
! out, would be only an incident in the
| process Of procreation 1t was the
mother who had all the bother of bring
| ing the child into the world and rails
| ing It, If this practice were in vogue,
| she said, then there would be no illegi-
| innate children
One. of the most picturesque espous-
| ers, Of the economically Independent
| and maiden name marriage is Nina
| Wilcox Putnam, of popular fiction
| fame, who has planned her marriage on
the latest model. This young authoress
vas formerly the wife of a publishing
mouse putnam and has Young son by
that name, Having acquired her fam"
| as an authoress under the name of
! Putnam, however she decided to keep
| it when she recently married Mr., Rob
| ert Sanderson, who is the manager
| of a New England telephone company.
! She also decided to 20 right on living
| in her ancestral home, THE Christmas
| Trees in Madison, Conn. while her
| new husband went right on living in
| hie bachelor apartment in Bridgeport,
| Conn. which is his business headquar-
| tiers, They spend their week ends to-
| gcther, and occasionally they both take
a trip to New York. where they both
| share the upkeep of an apartment.
| When recently asked why she didn't
| move to bridgeport to live with her
! husband, she replied in surprise: Why.
really, you know. | never thought of
| that"
The greatest shining example of a
successful marriage of this type was
| that Of the celebrated scientist, Have
| lock Ellis, and his wife. who maintained
| separate establishments next door ia
each other at Cornwall England Mrs.
| ellis who believed in the economically
! independent wife. supported herself by
writing and farming and lecturing. They
both believed that boredom was the
greatest handicap III marriage, and they
did not permit it to handicap theirs.
| When DE- Ellis got tired Of Cornwall
| he went UP to his apartment in London
and lived for months, ard when Mrs.
| Ellis got tired Of Cornwall she came to
! America for a prolonged visit But, &C
| cordng to DR.. Ellis own confession
they wrote to each other every day.
| pr, Ellis thinks that the war has
changed marriage for good; that women
having tasted the fun of economic in
dependence, will never go back to the
old way, The problem now" he says
is for the man to catch up with the
| woman. He must either help to lessen
her domestic burdens or share them
with her"
So. you see. 1t looks as If the war
had made leap year and all other forms
Of feminine aggression a permanent
thing.