Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1920-06-10
TRIAL MARRIAGE
PROVES SUCCESS
Fannie Hurst, Novelist, Tells Of
Five-Year Experiment.
SIZE AND HUSBAND LIVE APART
Writer Tells Of Wedding Five Years
Ago to jacques S. Oanieison, Pianist
and composer-MutuaI'y Agreed to
Maintain Separate Households
Earriag. Knot Will Hold, Wife An.
nuunces.

Fannie Hurst, magazine serial writer
ana author Of number of popular
and successful novels, has found hap
nlness in fiye-year trial marriage"
She made the announcement herself
in New York and disclosed that her
husband is jacques :. Danielson.
pianist and composer. The trial" was
success and the marriage knot will
hold, the wife announces
Miss Hurst and Danieison were mar
ried on May 5, 1919, in Lakewood. n.
D.. by justice or magistrate, sha
doesn't remember which. They mll.Y.
ally agreed to maintain separate house.
hulhS.
And the Bark Hasn't Sprung a Leak.
with definite theories concerning
marriage, we decided to sail into the
sea of matrimony on bark of cur OWE
designing" to put the matter in Miss
llurst's own words to reporter.
And the bark hasn't sprung leak
during the five years of high seas" sh~
added. Rive years ago. when | met
jacques DaniclSon, l found my youth
iti 'V''' lliil "uA
not for me was suddenly undermined.
But my determination that marriage
should never lessen my capacity for
creative work nor pull me down into q
sedcntary state of "Reminiscences, waa
not undermined. AS a matter of fact.
my writing output has doubled since
May, 1918.
No Fad or "Isnn" in It
1--WE We're firmly of the opinion that
nine out of ten alliances were merely
sordid endurance tests, overgrown with
the fungi of familiarity and contempt
"Our marriage was neither the re.
suit of fad nor an 'ism, but simply
the working out of a problem accord.
ing to the highly specialized needs OF
two professional people. We decided
to live separately, maintaining our in
dividual studio apartments and meet
ing as per inclination, not duty.
1--WE decided that seven breakfasts
week opposite one another might
prove irksome. Our average Is two.
I'VE decided that invariably being
invited to the same social functions
might eventually resolve itself into the
usual married wrangle of dragging one
another to places we did not want to
90. We have maintained our separate
groups of friends.
I'VE decided that the antediluvian
custom of a woman casting aside the
name that had become as much part
of her personality as the color of her
eyes had neither rhyme nor reason. J.
was born Fannie Hurst and i expect
to die Fannie Hurst.
Asks for Dinner Engagement.
My husband telephones me for q
dinner engagement, exactly the same
as scores of my other friends. l have
the same regard for his plans. We
have different sets and circles OF
friends Since nature so often mercy
springs trap as means of la
weighing two people into matrimony,
we decided that we would try out mar
riage for year and at the end "
that period go quietly apart, sh1.h
the venture prove itself liability ~,
stead of an asset"
How does 1t work out?" she WAS
asked.
We'll, of course the proof Of tie
pudding lies in the eating. Now We
can speak from the vantage point "
experience. 1t is not an experiment
at this stage. The one year hgs
stretched into five and-well, we are
announcing instead of annulling."
The announcing" Of the marriage
does not mean that they are to live
together. Instead they are to continue
as they have lived for five years.