New-York tribune., 1921-02-13

Comas, the Lulu of "Miss Lulu
Bett."
II don't see why you come TO ma"
said Miss McComas. "T'm not mar.
ried, you know"
"But you are a member OF The
Woman Pays Club?"
"oh, yes. I suppose that does
make it different. But, really,
haven't any deep feeling in the mat
ter. don't think there Is any great
principle involved. To me the fate
Of nations does not appear to hang
on the issue.
Would Use Husbands Name
"If woman has established a.
reputation for herself under her
maiden name, I think she makes q
mistake to change it professionally
when she gets married. But socially
we'll, think that l should use my
husbands name if I had husband.
Among my friends there doesn't
seem to be any difficulty in names.
OF course, I can never think of
Blanche Bates as anything but
Blanche Bates. But I suppose there
are persons who know her only as
Mrs. George Creel. Probably you
don't know Nora Bayes's husbands
name. People don't. It really
doesn't matter. In the long run the
public, not the individual. decides.
So why bother?
perhaps you would like to know
what Lulu Bett would think about
it. You see, she would rather be ths
mistress of the man she loved
thar
"But, Miss McComas,p we inter
rupted, "you shouldn't talk to Us
about things like that. We are toe
young-far too young"
eyes," said Miss McComas, asshe
watched US slip out the door, II sup
pose you are"
Noting this apparent dissension
in the ranks Of The Woman Pays
Club, it seemed perfectly natural to
continue the investigation on O.
broader plane.
She's Still Miss Putnam
Miss Nina Wilcox Putnam, Of
Believe You Me" fame, has firm
convictions on the maiden name idea.
When Miss Putnam married Robert
j. Sandersoh she said:
GAS for my name, am going to
keep it, although it did belong to my
first husband. Naturally Mr.. San
derson doesn't like the idea, but wa
have talked it over and decided I
shall be Miss Nina Wilcox Putnam.
I don't see why married women any
more than married men should be
singled out and branded with q spe-
cial title. Ones sex status is one,s
own affair"
Mr.. Sanderson, however, continued
to refer to his wife as Mrs. Sander
son.
II shall call her that even If
nobody else does," ne said.
Mrs. George Middleton daughter
Of the Senator from Wisconsin. re-
tains her maiden name of Miss Foia
La Toilette.
Difference to Hotel Registers
IF my husband introduces me as
Miss Fola La Toilette" she ex-
planned, "and there is any necessity
for explaining that am his wife, he
does so, just as married woman
bearing her husbands name intro.
duces her mother with an explana.
tion that she is her mother, their
last names being different.
Whenever it as important that
the marriage state be revealed, as on
hotel registers, why, that is done.
There is no difficulty about it. The
question of how to name children
does not arise in connection with the
maiden name idea at all. for worn-
an keeps her maiden name, what
ever it may be, and its bestowai at
birth is entirely independent of the
principle and in no way conflicts
with it. The idea is to carry the
same personality into matrinonv
through the same symbol, whstever
it may be-"
No resume Of the subject would
De complete without including Mrs.