“THE IDEAL LIFE.”

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3522, 8 July 1920, Page 7

“THE IDEAL LIFE.”

GO«AS-YOU-PLE.-\Sl<] MARRIAGE. FREEDOM AND 1-1.-\PPINESS. Miss Fallllit-‘ Hurst, tlw novelist who‘ has lust announced -that five years ago|._she was 111z1r1'ie(i :secretl_v to M: Jacques Danielson, the pianist‘ and composer, and that. they have since lived a “go-as-3i'ou—please'A’ life. 111,5 provided the American Press with a new topic_ . ' Thousands of. pens to-day are 131,133’ sarirising or comniending, co:xde111.11Eng Cl‘ holding up to ridicule me (~'Xperinient of :1 limited mzu'riag'e as {he only means of: S£Lf6gU?ll'dillg I'ndi'\‘i(.'.Ll- - after the exchallgé‘ of vmv; at the altal‘.

Ixlterviewers who flocked TO‘ Miss I-111:-si-’5 Gain:-y st’ll§li() discovered 'the}fo Mr Jacques Danic»l.son. 1191" Russian husband. looking :I.<.liillCll at home as I"h9 Poliine-.<e dog" which I'e(:]ill(sd an the Ol"lenta‘l rug. 1.--10. immediafeiy bursr inn» :1 I'll{ip.<O(liC'al pllclol‘s:=llu.~.m'of the novelisf's theories. “If zmyeue would know how I feel

v.-bout it," he exclaiinc-rl, ‘jusf. let him a.»-_k some inarried man of five yeal‘s’ standing how he would like to have a night out without I'(?SOl‘iing to the hackneyed ‘sick ’r'x-iend.‘ or wwn-n.ou+ ‘lodge meeting’ e);cll.<<-. . NO Pl+l'l."i.“.' Il{lH'.l‘-\’["EO.\’. “Tliink oi‘ 1»;-“r{(1iI‘.g one’s cwu life with the real joy of :1 happy pariner and mom: of‘ i‘ll(>._ pc-My in'itziai<:~n of’ COI11“[)d11iO1'l.<hi}I, ullnalllmll_\' close and intiinute. Think oi‘ i'ollowi‘ng onois own inclination and devoting an evzzn-A ing to composition alone in one‘s studio or to any one of half a dozen legitimate Dill'Sllii'S Without going heme to a nagging wife who is either in i:_'ini'l'ilills Oi‘ i(‘:il's_ “ho (‘iil])Gl' 11;’)braids one for brutish seifisliness or sbbs that one has ceasfifi to love her. It is freedom! A

“.-Xnyone xyho Chooses fw appl‘kl_iSf.j' this union of 0111-3, any ‘man whoALa.< hesitated to take a inure because he does not want to find himself put in gaol for life with any woman who is not willing to sink her whole identity must reali.-e that. our five years of happiness have been founded 01:1 a mutual explicit tl‘ust.’'’ , N 0 CTEIANGIS FOR C7l'llLl)l{El\’. “With a suspicion of‘;jeal(>Lls-_y fliis tliing is not possible. Only the (leopest confiaglmme in each other has Inude possible an urrzulgenlent which I may truly (lcsccl'_§be‘ as idval. We have succeeded through this long period in going each his or her own way -and <_lri\'ing a tandem" wlmn that best S1lll‘O('.l our moods. ' ‘ “A mutual .'lrl'{ln:lgelnmJl' such as. mils mL=.:\n_< nu.‘ only mnfu:ll h‘2l(?]‘lfioCOS but also iz:«liv‘.diu::l 5:1:-!‘l{i«"r‘:=. No one

‘mid dc’ny that the ol'[l-illzl'r_y huxlldl'tlx‘ll

luzwriugc <,l(=m:ulded udjLl.s'tmelxt. 'i‘hc-rc have beun those :1<}jL1s;x11o111s with. us, tuo, but I‘hcl'e is this to be said for

our eXpeljn)ent—§—ill rctul-n for those szu-.1-ifices we have found lmppilless. At: any rate we have been lmppy for live years, our ‘})_arquo’ has weathered the storms of those first five years whiazh see the wreck of so many 1111111’, vimonial cl'uiscs.’”' ‘

“Will your (exp?-1'i1110nt.” one interviewer :Iske<l, “pass into conVent.ion-' 13.1‘ Inarrienl life if you bccol‘n(-3 parmiis?“ : A ' ' “’l.‘lJ:lf’s hurcl to my," un.<w(>l'e<l Ur Danielson. “Ask Miss'l’HAllx'sf.’’ ; Without hesi_t:li'ion Miss 1-{in-;-t do ‘cluwd that cliiidron would not‘ alter the basis of her iuarriuge. “I can see no rc-:1s(.n1 why a woman with :1 profession cannot misc hvr aliildren 'n‘.m‘r} efficiently by onh~ll.~'ting sllloll‘ lllpl)2'ingil)g_;‘ to :1 woman who is :1 pro ll’v.<::ionzll in Hl2ll way-—-:l.‘ all events I while" the <'lli,l<ll'on :11‘;-9 in the _\'olixl}_>,‘el' l.~:l:x’g‘0, Lml’olLli.n;;‘ like little bud.-= and igl'(n\‘iiig into ‘flowers. ' 3 “I don ’t menu. of colu'.<.o. for an lSll()1ll!l be (lonieti them. Far from it. 11-Rut cllil(ii'e‘n will be llzlppl{‘,l', be’rfer,l I wiser chihlrou if they are l’("2‘H'é(l under‘ 3 the \\'af("ll'l:l1lJlOSH of :1 moflierr who has l bum l;>i_s: enough to see b(‘_\'01I(l their: l little noses, who has kepf on with her‘ iowu (‘.dl‘L'Cl‘, and made her lift! 513 biile and as l)l'O:ld as possible." I j‘. '_\f‘[,q,r_q m:_n_s'l‘=s 'l'GXz\Mfil‘l’.Til DE- ; vm«:oATm:). , I Wonmn g_-‘mam-:1ll_\' 80 not <'.(nlmn' in l;\fj_.-\~ I~_{m‘St’,< views, <lecla.riug tliat‘ it" lull Slime l,>z'i(los adopt’ tlu‘-in a sorry l.<t:l!‘u of thlnfzs will‘ result‘. “Such! ~,,m-,-1;1_._,-9,3" says ':\'lis:~l ljuoille Pugh, 1 :1 y,-noniizwnt woman ln\v'_y(‘l‘. ":11? llloSi-g cmplu:lti(-,:’\il_\' not for lltllf-lf)1Ll{0ll young :H‘(‘ fl line llli“§-7'” {‘nh"-I‘viv\\'m'H nskv(l Miss Il'-'{ur.<l' if‘ he intended to c-.el(-lmtte the fifth 'ln—niver.<ar_v of her wodfiling by «lining with IJI.‘I‘ husbzmnl. “If is pos;-:il3l<*.” slw said. “flint 1 shall I'ocei\*o an in-\_.»;[-gt-ion to (linner from my llusb:lnd.”} Mr D:lnio,l.<on. in respose to the Raine question. said in his own sluclio: “l’m 3 very busy man with s.tu<'l(\nl‘.< in l)(' l‘(‘C€}l.'v'o(l from various cities and other music lulall’ox's requiring aftvntaiou. My nrf. must"como firsl, you uiulersfzmil. Buf it is quite possible I shall invite my wi‘r'c to dine.” -