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Show j! ILL MENCKEN:! i WOMAN HATER1 i ; MARRIED MAN 1 1 (Copyright 1930. by United Press ) BALTIMORE, Md Aug. 29 (!'.!!. -Henry L. Mencken, editor and formally for-mally years regarded as a "wo man hater" because of bis tirades on marriage, was embarked Thurj-aav Thurj-aav on a honeymoon. He had wedded Miss Sara Powell Haardt, Montgomery, Ala., write:", a week before the "scheduled .dafe after leaving to adorn the records of Mencken literature a credo which declared that "getting married, mar-ried, like getting hanged, is probably prob-ably a great less dreadful than k j has been made out." He had written to the United Press, in answer to a frank cat ; chism, equally frank answers which showed he believed ths .slogan "be polite" was the key-i key-i stone for a happy married life, ! just as it is "the best rule for ; all human relations" His revelations were given the , United Press only a short time before be-fore ho was married by Rev. Dr. Herbert Parrish, an old friend, of New Brunswick, N. J., yesterday in the Episcopal church of St. Stephen, the martyr, with the formal for-mal Episcopal marriage service. Mencken pictured himself as happy in his bachelorhood which extended 50 years but he envisaged an even more happy future as a married man. He saw no reason, however, to alter his book, "In defense de-fense of woman" which had gained him the reputation of a woman hater. He confessed that his venture into matrimony was based upon his penchant of 'following hunch'.' The paiticular hunch which caused him to abondon single blessedneso, |