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Show TRADITIONS SHATTERED Couple Comply With Mariage Convention for Children's Sake Los Angeles, Sept 14 Conventions are shattered and traditions of romance ro-mance ruthlessly ignored In a marriage mar-riage contract signed by Miss Heluise Chandler, aged 21, daughter or Julia Davis Chandler, author, of Philadelphia, Philadel-phia, and Carleton V. Washbume, aged 23. son of Marlon Foster Washbume, Wash-bume, author and lecturer, of Pasadena, Pasa-dena, The young couple met a week ago; their marriage license was issued is-sued yesterday; the pre-nuptlal agreement signed and sealed and they will bo joined tomorrow In legal marriage, which step they tako. the agreement declares, for the happiness of their children and for the free intercommunication of the parents with the rest of society. The marriage contract specifically sets forth that the marriage shall not be a bond giving either control over or possession of the other; that it shall not be a bar to other marriage should this prove unfruitful, that the tie shall terminate simultaneously with the death of love on either side aud lhat neither shall have the right to restrain the other, should he or she se,c fit to Incur other parental responsibility. re-sponsibility. It provides that since at present the state provides no Income for mothers and children. It shall be the duty of the man to share equally with his wife all earnings and properly prop-erly at such limes as she may bo Incapacitated In-capacitated for work, that the expenses ex-penses of tho household and the children chil-dren shall be equally divided In caso of separation they agree that the financial fi-nancial responsibility should be divided, di-vided, no matter whose fault the di-jvorco di-jvorco might be. Washbume and his fiancee are both college graduates, he of the Uni-versit Uni-versit of Chicago and Stanford, sho of two Philadelphia institutions. |