Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-05-04
Trial Marriage
Proves Successful
After Five Years

New York, May 4.--Miss Fannie
Hurst the writer, today disclosed
that she was married secretly five
years ago TO Jacques s.. Danielson.
pianist and composer. Wednesday
will mark the NTH anniversary OF
their wedding.
None of Miss Hurst's gripping
name Is Miss Hurst and not Mrs.
name is Miss Hurst and not Mrs.
ielson"--surpasses in romantic
trend the tale OF her FIVE years Of
supreme happiness" The couple
never meet except by appointment:
they maintain separate studio apart
ments: they have averaged two
breakfasts a week together since the
ceremony, and when the pianist
wishes to take his author-wife to a
theater or for a motor trip when by
the terms of their pre-nuptial under
standing he must telephone or other
wise communicate his desire to Miss
Hurst.
Miss Hurst sat in her handsome
apa rtments In West Sixty ninth
street and discussed quite frankly
her scheme OF married life She said
that five years ago she was called on
to decide between a career and we'd
lock. She solved the problem by
choosing both.
AS proof that she has found sue
cess and happiness, she said that
the trial marriage" which was tim
ed to last one year. has reached the
end OF the fifth year and that since
her marriage she has written and
sold double her former amount of
stories.
Our marriage IL the result Of very
definite theories concerning we'd
lock-" said Miss Hurst. I'VE decided
tc sail into the sea of matrimony on
a bark Of our own designing. And it
has not sprung leak during the five
years OF high seass. We were mar
ried by a justice Of the peace, or a
magistrate. forgot which, at Lake.
wood. N. j., on May s. 1915.
"The ceremony was the same as
any marriage. Our reservations were
understood in sort of verbal gen.
tleman's agreement 1t was a pro-
sale little ceremony and we did
everything to keep It secret. to work
it out ourselves with three of my
friends and three Of Mr.. Danielson's s
friends In on the secret. Yes, Of
course. my parents knew and ap-
proved of the plan.
Five years ago when met
Jacques in musical circles !. I found
my youthful determination that mar
riase was not for me suddenly un-
dermined. But by determination
that marriage should never lessen
my capacity for creative work or pull
me down into q sedentary state of
nat -mindedness was not under
miEeA."s
;sllss Hups. lausi,;nsis ratd, she
was born in st. Louis in 1889 and
that her husband was born in Petro-
grad. then st. Petersburg. thirty
nine years ago. but came to America
more than twenty years back. She
said her husband was quite in ac-
cord with the idea of the trial" and
added:
Being firmly of tho opinion that
nine out OF ten of the alliances /
saw about me were merely sordld
endurance tests. overgrown with the
fungi of familiarity and contempt,
convinced that too often the most
sacred human relationship wears Off
like a piece of high steen damask,
and in few months becomes as a
breakfast cloth. stale with soft boil
ed egg stains. made certain resolu-
tions concerning what my marriage
should not be.
First OF all, 1 am anxious to en-
phasize that our marriage was neith-
er the result of a fad nor an ism,
but simply the working out Of a
problem according to the highly
specialized needs Of two profess
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