Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1917 — UNIQUE MARRIAGE CONTRACT [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

UNIQUE MARRIAGE CONTRACT

Eleanor Taylor, pretty twenty-year-old Vassar college girl, has just entered into the latest matrimonial contract with Benjamin Marsh under the title of “An Individual Marriage.” When a girl enters an “individual marriage” it means that as the wife in the partnership of Husband & Co., she retains her ipdividual thoughts, works, beliefs and above all, her own name. They each go forth daily to their toil and they each contribute to the expenses of the household and share and share alike in the manner of a “Dutch treat” dinners, entertainments, theaters and the many “wotnots” enjoyed by the regularly married couple. The question of whose uame the children, of. an “individual married” couple will bear, has not yet been decided. Probably that will be left to the children, If children there be.