The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-01-25
SHE WON I Have
GEAR FOR NATE,
SAYSELS|EH HILL
Blazing Feminist Gives Her
Views on Love, Marriage.
y and-Men.
BY WEBSTER X. NOLAN,
International News Service.

by WEBSTER N. NOLANy
international News Service.
Ten days honeymoon in a Chicago
hotel and then a transcontinental
separation for more than six months
is the love story Of Americas blazing
feminist" Elsie Hill, the Elsie Of mill.
tant fame, veteran of White House
picketing. and erstwhile prisoner nj
the District Jail.
Miss Hill, as the .,individualist'
wife of Prof. Albert Leavitt, Of the
University Of North Dakota. told her
love story and her ideas OF marriage
today to the International News Serv.
ice.
The blazing feminist" has not lost
any OF her vigorous ideas about femi.
nism. She has merely adapted her
Ideals to include love.
Though I'm married, my name is
still Elsie HILL" she asserted today.
Says They're Practical.
when Professor Leavitt and were
secretly married on Christmas Eve in
Chicago, we agreed to look on life
in it's most practical way. and yet not
sacrifice the least of the things that
others grant higher rating" Miss
Hill observed.
IT hold, as my husband holds, that
whether a wife should take the name
Of her husband as her own is purely
a matter Of option on the part of the
wife. Personally, I can see no reason
why an individual who is equally
equipped for life should wipe her per-
sonality out just because she has
married a man. 1t is the custom.
know, but 1t is more or less primitive"
Miss Hill left Chicago ten days
after her clandestine marriage to
Professor Levitt and journeyed through
the middle West and Southern States
addressing colleges and civic bodies on
her favorite topic - the Women's
Rights Bill-which bill has been sue
cessfully passed in only one State
Wisconsin.
The fiery woman leader returned to
Washington and will remain here
while her husband pursues his Gin.
divdual" way in Grand Forks, N. d.
Next June the couple will vacation"
together in the Connecticut cottage of
the bride. Until then the newlyweds
will live apart in fact and in name.
Love Not Amenable to Law.
Love has no connection with the
law" Miss Hill continued. "It enters
into our lives only as It may affect
our actions in performing life's duties
When women demand equal rights
with men they expect to share equally
with them all responsibilities. One
can look the facts of life square in the
face and yet allow love to run its
course uncoarsened."
In Miss Hills new life her husband
will not exercise any "czarism" over
her. Miss Hill, who Is VassaI
graduate u,a O poctfiya fhof man xuo,,ld
have to abdicate forthwith as the car
of the household. :, she ,ventured that
man is growing more and more
afraid Of the growing power Of the
women who are demanding q national
bill Of rights.
Men have regarded themselves az
dictatorS over women" the energetic
suffragist declared. They have de
veloped the dictatorial traits OF char
acter germane to czarism. This situa
ton has produced in women servile,
sheepish, and subject traits. They
have little confidence in the leader.
counsel of men first. The clothes OF
the world are washed by the unhappy
wives of incompetent husbands"
She's Quite Feminine, Too.
Miss Hill exhibits exceptional fefni.
nine traits-in fact she did not fail to
powder her nose and trump her auburn
tresses with artistic careless grace.
Having delivered herself of a scorch-
ing indictment of masculinity she
offered a remedy for all the ills that
beset young people, candidates for
wedlock.
Ignorance on the part of girls and
boys as to the duties and the legal
intricacies involved in marriage could
easily be avoided" she said, IF every
college in America instituted a special
compulsory course in domestic rela-
tons. Every youth and every maiden
should be instructed as fully in the
dangers of and the blessings Of mari.
tai relationship, just as they are In.
structed IN the fine points Of economics
IT biology. II this were done, young
girls would enter the marital state
with a different conception Of its re.
alities than those she conceived from
moving picture plays.
Male Superiority Held Bunk.
Miss Hi could not refrain from q
lengthy dissertation on the evils of
modern laws denying women equal
rights with men, and with a gesture
that, histrionically interpreted, meant
utter disgust, she cited a recent case
n Middle West city where an at.
torney read to the court in support
of his case a line from the law.maker
Grotius reading: "If the comma nds
Of the father and of the mother clash,
the father is to be obeyed upon &C.
count of the excellence of his SEX"
"Bosh" the blazing feminist" con.
cluded.
ASKS FREEDOM, ALLEGING
MARINE HAS OTHER WIFE