The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-01-28

ordered all her mail addressed in this way.
 Though I'm married" says Miss H1ll, my name is still Elsie Hill. When Professor Leavitt and I 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 a higher rating. I hold as my husband holds, that whether wife should take the name of her husband as her own is purely a mat ter of opinion on the part of the wife. Personally I can see no reason why an individual who Is equally equipped for life should wipe out her personality just because she has mar ried a man. It is the custom, I know but 1t is more or less promitive.''
 With two such prominent young women announcing their decisions to keep their own nahnes within a week many more prospective brides will port will undoubtedly have it's own young individualist before many weeks have passed.
 Whoever accused staid old Con- necticut of being unkind in it's 1egis- lation for women didn't know what they were talking about. A woman in Connecticut may have had as many husbands as she pleased, provided she acquired them legally, and still have always been known by her maid en one.
 diligent study of the statutes, the marriage service and the methods of the marriage license bureau reveals the fact that in no way is she required by law to take the name of the man to whom she is married.
 Lawyers said that one may assume any name one desires providing tthere is no intention to defraud. But the moment one uses these names to de- fraud, a crime is committed.
 Section H 2S7 of tho CaneroI Statutes, which provides that in di- vorce proceedings the judge may give the woman the right to take her maiden name was brought into dis cusSion.-
 'iShe doesn't really need the court order to retake her maiden name" one lawyer explained. Legally she could do it of her own volition. The reason it is done at all is that she has come to be known under her hus- bands name and when she presents herself under another name someone may say Why I though you were Mrs. So-and-So.' This might be so in passport application or on the voting lists. And to show the ques- doning individual why the change and to save explanations, she may present the court order and facilitate matters. But really it isn't neces- sary."
 No where can one find any written words saying that woman must as sume her husbands name upon mar riage- In the license the woman's maiden name is used, it is so in the wedding service used in all churches and in the civil service.
 There are times when the use of the individual names of a husband and wife might cause embarrassment on Q hotel register, for instance. Most young men, also consider that 1t would be quite embarrassing to have to introduce their wives as Misses and certainly the mother of five young sters might at times find it highly em- barrassiny to be addressed as Miss"
 Where there are children, the add ed complication of names for them arises where the mother is using her maiden name.
 While a few of the more radical may take up the fad, 1t will never really prove popular for after all, the great majorityq of girls will still con- of the man they Ioye-ves - evan though it be Samuel Spinach.