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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Mrs. E. T. Dana Describes Wedding 
and Expresses Ideals on Marriage 
Mrs. Jessie Holliday Dana, wife of 
Edmund Trowbridge Dana, of Cain- 
bridge, sailed recently to spend the 
winter with her parents, at Harrow, 
near London, England. Mr. Dana is 
the son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. 
Dana of the Manchester summer col- 
ony, who are abroad for a year. Just 
before sailing for England the younger 
Mrs. Dana wrote the following strik- 
ing article to the Boston Sunday 
Herald, describing her wedding and 
expressing her ideals on marriage: 
By Mrs. Jesstz Hoitipay DANA 
The bride and bridegroom were both 
dressed in white, symbolic of chastity 
and also of purity of purpose. The 
woman should demand precisely the 
sanie standard of morality in her mate 
that is expected of her. The costumes 
were of great simplicity, this wedding 
not being a kind of moving picture 
show, pantomime and circus rolled into 
one, but a very serious and ethical oc- 
casion. The bride wore a white, hand- 
worked Japanese crepe and _ white 
cluster roses in her hair and belt. The 
bridegroom wore white flannels with a 
white tussor shirt and flowing tie. 
Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Dana, the 
parents of the bridegroom, held a re- 
ception from 5 to 7 in the grounds of 
the Craigie House, where some 200 
guests assembled to congratulate the 
couple. They received with Mr. and 
Mrs. Dana and Mr. Henry Holliday, 
the father of the bride in the Italian 
pergola of the rose garden. The bride 
had changed her wedding dress for a 
reception dress of pale blue satin un- 
der silk net. 
As the guests departed each was 
presented with a small, neatly wrapped 
white packet, which contained a Fabian 
tract on Socialism, instead of the usual 
indigestible lumps of cake. 
The proceedings of the newly mar- 
ried pair after the wedding day were 
marked by equal originality and un- 
conventionality. For a week after the 
ceremony the young bride continued 
to live with Mrs. Richard H. Dana, 
where she had been all the winter, 
while the bridegroom went on staying 
with his aunt, Miss Alice Longfellow. 
Theyt ook part in Class day and <all 
the other celebrations of Harvard com- 
mencement week, and after another 
week spent sailing at Marblehead went 
to Chicago. 
Here they visited the Healthato- 
rium of Bernarr Macfadden, the well 
knuwn exponent of sex morality, real 
health and physical culture. Mr. Dana 
fasted 17 days on water with occa- 
sional and limited portions of fruit 
juice, aud Mrs, Dana went 40 days on 
same diet. Both declare that they 
have benefitted very much by this 
new treatment, which is becoming 
quite fashionable in England as a 
yearly occurrence, both by the sick 
and the “less sick.” (Few or none 
are well according to her standard.) 
The theory is that ,during the fast 
the system throws off all the impuri- 
ties and waste matter accumulated in 
it, firstly, and, most usually, by too 
much food of an impure or too con- 
centrated nature; secondly, by lack of 
fresh air and _ sufficient exercise; 
third, by overwork, worry and other 
methods of abuse. 
One or all of these conditions gen- 
erally occur under the present modes 
of living. Mrs. Dana accounts for the 
necessity of such a prolonged fast in 
her own case by the indulgence in 
candy, salted and sugared nuts, ice 
cream sodas, etc., and has foresworn 
these temptations forever. 
Mr. Dana, who obtained his Ph. D. 
in philosophy last June, is running 
for state senator on the Socialist tick- 
et. Mrs. Dana is going to spend the 
winter months in England with her 
parents at Harrow, near London. 
The long fast has naturally left her 
rather weakened temporarily, and not 
quite equal to the rigorous winter of 
our climate, which she found trying 
last year. While at home she intends 
taking a course at the London school 
of economics “to get a more accurate 
basis for her belief in Socialism,’ a 
correspondence course in ethics and 
philosophy with her husband, a train- 
ing in obstetrics at some medical school 
and singing lessons with her sister. 
The time should fly for her, as she is 
going to improve her knowledge of 
dietetics. and intelligent cookery, of 
which subjects, by the way, America 
is even more ignorant than England; 
perfect her housekeeping capacity, re- 
organize her wardrobe to the most 
hygenic, simple and beautiful Imiit al- 
lowed in this absurd age, and write 
articles for several magazines on food 
reform, decent dress, physical culture, 
morality in marriage and similar sub- 
jects. 
She also wants to paint two large 
pictures for the Royal Academy, take 
lots of exercise, visit all her friends 
and relations, and attend lectures and 
conferences on Socialism, suffrage, 
prevention of destitution, race regen- 
eration, vegitarianism and Christian 
Social Science. So, you see, she is not 
going to spend the hours pining for 
America. Mr. Dana still needs men-— 
tal rest after his Ph. D. work, which — 
he crowded into two years instead of 
the customary three, as well as put- 
ting in work in articles, speeches, 
teaching, etc. So he is not planning 
quite so strenuous a winter session — 
for himself, and she hopes to find him ~ 
thoroughly rested and built up in the 
spring. 
Hoiuis STREET THEATRE. 
The announcement that David Be- 
lasco will present his famous pro- 
duction of “The Concert” at the Hollis 
Street theatre, Boston, for two weeks 
beginning Nov. 4, is welcome news to 
theatre goers. Philip Hale, dramatic 
critic of the Boston Herald says of ~ 
this play: | 
“The Concert” is a dramatization of 
the Old Adam in man and the Old 
Eve in woman, which this day and 
generation chooses to call “artistic tem- 
perament.” Gabor Arany, the hero of 
the comedy is a world-famous piano ~ 
virtuoso. He is handsome, debonnaire, 
beloved of many beautiful women. He 
is imbued with the artistic spirit to 
the very roots of his hair. He is tem- 
peramental to the very tips of his ex- 
quisite fingers. Careful and prudent, 
and cautious as he is on occasion cap- 
able of being, that terrible tempera- 
ment will play all sorts of queer tricks 
on him, carrying him into the depths 
and heights of folly, as temperaments 
have a way of doing, when not con- 
trolled by a strong will. 
This genius has a wife who is not 
gifted with the artistic vagaries that 
bother her husband. Nobody realizes 
that fortunate fact better than she 
does. She watches over her husband 
as a mother does over her foolish 
child. She is a patient wife, and for- 
bearance is one of her greatest virtues. 
In spite of her husband’s many flirta- 
tions, and his affairs with other charm- 
ers, she continues to love him. She 
has a keen sense of humor and a sym- 
pathetic understanding of her hus- 
band’s short-comings. When harm in 
the form of a foolish escapade with 
another woman, hovers near, this wise 
wife goes to her husband’s aid and 
protects him. 
Just how she does it is charmingly 
told in the production that Mr. Be- 
fasco will make. 
