The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1922-01-26
''BlAzINC FEMINIST"
EXPLAINS MODERN"
WAYS OF MARRIAGE


honeymoon in a Chicago hotel, and
then trans-continental separation
for more than six months is the love
story Of Americas blazing femin-
ist." Elsie Hill. the Elsie of militant
fame. veteran OF white house picket
ing. and 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 Ser
vice.
tThe blazing feminist" has not lost
any of her vigorous ideas about fem
inism. She has merely adapted her
ideals to include love.
Though I'm married, my name is
still Elsie HILL" she asserted today
When Prof Leavitt and | were Sc
cretly married On Christmas Eve, in
Chicago. we agreed to look on life
in its most practical way, and yet not
sacrifice the leas. of the things that
others grant higher rating Miss
/ Hill observed.
| 81 mold, as my husband holds. that
; whether 4 wife should take the name
OF her husband as her own is purely
a matter CT option On the part of the
wife Personally, l can see no rea-
son Why an individual who is equally
equipped for life should wipe her per-
sonality out just because she has mar
rid q man 1t is the custom. | know
hut it is more or less primitive.
Miss Hill left Chicago ten days af-
ter her ciandestined marriage 10 Prof.
l.eavitt and jou1neyed through, middle
west and southern states addressing
colleges and civic bodies on her fav-
aritc topic the wOmen's rights bill
which bill has been successfully pass
: ed III only enc state Wisconsin. Tho
fiery leader Of her sex returned t.
Washington. and will remain iers
+ while her husband pursues his ''indi
vidual way in Grand Fork. \. d. Mex
June. the couple will vacation" 10
! .etlnr in the Connecticut cottage q
the bride. Until then the newly wei.
viii live apart n fact and in name
Love has no connection with the
+, law" Miss Hill continued. 1T enter:
: INTO our lives only as ii may aflec
Str actions in peI forming life's duties
When women demand equal right
: with men. they expect u share equal
7, IL with them all possibilities. On'
! can look the facts of life square il
: the face and We, allow love to run it,
, course uncoarsened
: IN Miss HIS new life her HUSBAND
:. viii not exercise any "czarisn" owe
a her Miss Hill, who is vassar grad
uata was positive that man woult
o have to abdicate forthwith as the GA
J. OF tho household. She ventured tina
:, man is growing more and more ,,fr.i'
If the growing power OF the wom'
who are demanding Il naticii;l bill q
rights.
l. Men Az Dctators
i Men have REGARDED themselves ii
z aictators over women. the erergcti
n sufsfaeisi declaled They have DE-
veiuneI the dctitorial traits OF chal
y. ac>>.r gernane tc czarism. This sitna
! zion has produced in women sereile
l. sheenish and subject traits. The
have little confidence in the leader
u ship of ~omen ana take. instead. III
II counsel 81 mcn first The clothes Q
tie world are Washed By thc unhapp
:. wives Of Incompetent husbands
Miss iii c,.h bits exceptional *
!. minnie traits ii tact. she did no
, fail IL powder her nose and frum
leer auburn t.eSses with artistic care
o iess grace Having delivered hersei
/ OF Il seorc,lira Indictment OF niascu
. initF. She offered a remedy for q
/ me rs ihst besrt youns people. car
aidates for weaiGck.
r Course IN Domestic Re atoms
S ignorance on the part Of girls an
II boys as u the duties and the lega
inlricaeies involved in marriage coul
! easily be avoided, She said. Il ever
d college IN America instituted a spec
II. compulsory course IN domestic r.
lations Every yos;th and every maid
eu should he instructed as fully i
Inc darge~s - and the blessings &
= marital relationship just az they or
q instructed in the fine points Of ecor
SA.ies or Biology Il this were don.
! chen young girls would enter til
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