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PA6E
Overcome by Pity at Seeing Her
Childhood Sweetheart Lying with
Severed Right Arm in a British
Military Hospital, the Prima
Donna Falls on Her Knees
Beside the Little Cot and Sobs
Out Her Proposal
LOVE EPIGRAMS BY MAGGIE TEYTE.
yHAT wemin wants is stoedy lovo.
Whan woman U lovad by two man It la Uta ana who make the
noil aliow who wins bar.
Person who bare great gtfte must choose between lore aad
caraar. I should choose my caraar.
My husband preferred Ioto to a caraar. Because ho neglected hla
caraar for mo ho lost my respect
Every woman liko attantion.
I proposod to Liautanant Rohartson. I eaidi "You're got to."
That man who losaa a woman's r as pact loaaa har love.
My first marrlaga was tba old-fashioned kind tko marriaga of
dependence.
My next marriaga shall bo ono of Indapandanca.
1 I bellave In marriagai but I do aot believe In baing too much marriad.
It la battar for ovary woman to marry. It gives har anchorage,
and human nature needa anchorage.
By Maggie Teyte.
YES. ! attall marry again. It
will probably be in Mar.
when I return 'to England.
My fiance Is Lieutenant Seymour
Robertson, of tba EngUih One
Hundred and Seventeenth Regl
ment
I will tell the story of zny.ro'"
manee becanae It may help tome
other woman to find her way to
the new marriage without under
going the friction of the old mar
riage aa I did. .
I believe that I would bar eome
tlme married Lieutenant Robert
eon, bat I would not have married
. him ao aoon had It not been for
the war.
ne lost ma ten arm. n was snot
away at Tprea. He waa Invalided
home. I met him at a private boa-
Pital.
I secured a divorce from my first
buiband, Monsieur Flummon, be
cause I cherished my Independence.
When I nw my first sweetheart
lying In the hospital cot maimed
and, oh, ao feeble, I felt within me
all the old childish lova Increase
Immeasurably. We had been
child lovera at Wolverhampton, in
Staffordshire.
I Promise to Marry
a Wreck of War.
A great flood of love and pity
overwhelmed me. I fell on my
knees beside his cot sobbing.
"I will marry you," I said.
"What me. a wreck of war,
maimed and useless!" be said, bit
terly. "I will not allow it."
"You've got to." I cried; "Tou've
got to marry me."
And we are going to be married.
But let me go back to that child
hood in the Midlands, what is
called "The Black Country," and
tell you my romance from Its be
ginning. Only I cannot commence
at the actual beginning, for it
seems that I have always known
Seymour Robertson. He is seven
years older than I and has a clearer
memory of "The Teyte Baby" than
I have of "The big Bobertson
Boy," for his memories began
earlier than mine.
But we did talk of what we were
going to be when we grew up. I
cannot remember when be had not
determined to be a lawyer. And
It was my intention to become a
singer ever since my brother broke
down in the middle of a solo. He
had a heavy cold and we were all
anxious about him. I sat close to
the platform, eagerly listening.
When bis voice wobbled, then
stopped, 1 took up the strain and
sang it to the end. No one no
ticed whence the voice came. They
stared at the boy standing there,
red and mute, listened to the child
ish soprano and wondered. That
day 1 resolved to become a public
singer.
I went to a Convent school, then
father took ma to the Royal Col
lege of Musio in London. Sir Hu
bert Parry, director of the college,
refused to teach me. He eald I
waa too young. That waa the rea
son i went to ran. Jean am
Resske forgave my youth. He
taught me. I continued my studies
In Paris. I sang at the Opera
Comlque. I created a part in the
pew opera, Circe. Had I been ac
cepted aa a atudent in tanden my
life would have flown in a differ-
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A Striking Photograph of Miss Teyte at the Time She Disobeyed Her Hus
band and Came to America.
ent channel. I wonld have .met
Seymour pegging away at bla law.
There would JhaverTbeen 'a better
understanding between us. But I
carved my success In Paris. . And
I tuet Eugene Plummon.
There I stop to ask myself the
question: "WftyT" And I answer:
"Because wben a woman Is loved
by two men it Is the man who
makes the most show who wins
her."
I believed that Seymour Robert
son loved me, but he wss self-contained,
deep In hie studies and in
establishing his practice of the law,
I waa In Paris. Mons. Plummon
waa In Paris. I saw bim every day.
Every woman likes attention. I
married him.
My marriage waa only tolerably
happy from tba first, and it became
leas successful until It degenerated
Into a failure. There were two res
eons for the unhappy outcome.
First, let me remind you, that in
some essential respects women are
alike. They admire the man who
achieves a high place in the world.
That is one of the common points
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between the Colonel's Lady and the
O'Orady peraon between whom Kip
ling discovered ao much likeness.
If a man cannot attain a high place
in the world, at least ho should con
vince the woman nearest to his life
that ha Is doing hla best to develop
his talents.
All persona of great glfta may
have to decide between love and a
career. X would not hesitate a
moment. X ebonld choose a career.
But my huaband chose love.
Instead of attending to the big
business of a man's life making a
place for himself ho devoted his
time and thoughts to me. For this
I soon ceased to respect my hus
band. When a woman's respect for
a man goea her love follows.
That la one reason for the failure
of my marriage to Mons. Plummon.
Another was bis disposition to
meddle in my career. I wanted to
be let alone. I do not mean liter
ally alone, for every normal human
being enjoye companionship. But
I did not want dictation.
No woman wants some one el- '
wars it her elbow saying: "Do
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this" or "Don't do that" It Is
ridiculous In this stage ot the de
velopment of women to promise to
obey. It is a form of perjury, for
every Intelligent woman well knows
that she haa no Intention of render
ing obedience to her husband. She
will discuss family matters with
bim. She wilt follow bis sugges
tions, provided she thinks them as
good aa or better than bers. That
is all.
Mr. Plummon let hla own career
take care, In great measure, of
Itself, and meddled with mine. In
vain I warned him that be must not
interfere with my plane. He ob
jected to my going to America. I
insisted. I came. He divorced me
with my entire consent. I did not
defend the suit. Wnat he said waa
true. I wished to lead an inde
pendent life
And ao I shall, despite my be
trothal to Lieutenant Robertson.
He respects another's individuality.
He la willing that 1 shall be fmm
home on my concert tours. He
knows that he will take the same
place in my life that my adopted
daughter does. One mutt feel hen
bv th Star Compaii). Great tiiltaln
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Lieutenant Seymour Robert
eon, to Whom the Prima '
Donna Proposed.
she is far away that there la some
place that la bers. that there Is
eome one who belonge to her. An
anchorage! That Is right An
anchorage!
' After my marriage to Mr. Flum
mon I lived for the most part In
Parts. I did not meet my former
playmate of "The Black Country"
until a year ago last Summer, he
met my husband and ma. It was
very formal. He was most digni
fied. And yet I knew that he still
cared. A woman always knows.
It was on the eve of the war. He
volunteered. He wae wounded at
Ypres while I was in this country.
A friend cabled me about bis Injury
and eald he waa being Invalided
home.
Wben I sailed from America last
Spring I intended to join the work
ers in the field in France. I volun
teered as a vlsltress, one of those
women who goes from one supply
store to another and who sees that
the necessarlea are furnished.
That post not being open to me,
I sang all Bummer at the hospitals
I made up a party of four and we
visited the hospitals to cheer the
lucky ones bravo fellows who,
though they had lost one leg or two
legs, one arm or both, counted them
selves "lucky" merely to bo alive.
Often I aang ten or twelve numbera.
The boya liked the ballade. Their
weak volcea joined the choruses.
I. with other friends, called on
Lieutenant Itobertaon In his hos
pital. From that first meeting there
waa a reuuderatandlng. I took my
singers to the hospital and sang
there. Often I called without them
My divorce waa assured, and the
love affair of years before. Inter
rupted by my going to Paris, waa
renewed.
I had to propose to htm, as I
have told. I knew ho loved me and
I saw that he did not Intend to aak
me to share what be thought wae
a poor remnant of a life. So I did.
I aald to bim. "You've got to."
Ours will be what I call an Inde
pendent marriage. He will not in
terfere with my career nor I with
hla. But when the tour la over and
Rights Itaarrved
; , l 1 place that is bers. that there Is S
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fllss Teyte as Cherublno In
Marriage of Figaro."
his cases are finished, there will be
common ground for meeting.
We will have a home and we will
have each other My wish to be
alone will be fulfilled. Alonenesa 1
the artist's right. It Is more it is
the woman'a right My stand is
the revolt of womanhood. We ask
that the form of our life shall be
How Wall Paper Affects
the Air We Breathe
SURPRISING aa It may aeem,
the condition of the walls,
whether covered with paper
or whitewashed, has an Important
effect on a room's ventilation.
This waa proved by some recent
Interesting experiments with two
rooms. Tba walls of one room
were covered with a light paper
which had become somewhat aolled
by the lapse of time. Those of the
other were whitewashed.
The results of the experiments
showed that the proportion of car
bonlo acid remaining in the air was
appreciably lees in the room with
the whitewashed walla. Taking
Into consideration not only this,
but the amount ot humidity and all
the other factors, the ventilation
of the whitewashed room was
found to be 17 per cent better than
that of the one with paper on the
walls.
Other parallel experiments were
made to ascertain the effect of
different methods of ventilation.
One pair of experiments shows the
effect of opening wide and closing
the door once every half hour dur
ing a seven-hour period. The ven
tilation waa m proved about 10
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let alone. Tba form of our life la
the work wo have elected to do.
I expect to marry when I return
to England In May. My fiance la
still tn the private hospital, but
thank Heaven, be la gaining fast
We will show the world that the
new marriage, the Independent mar
rlage, will be a auccess.
per cent by thla periodical opening
of the door.
Other sets of tests compared the
effect of taking the air eupply to
the gaa stove from the corridor
with taking It from the room Itself.
The supply of air to the gaa stove
from the room Itself Improved the
ventilation by about 20 per cool
In other testa the effect of open,
ing the window flap while the vaa
stove took its air supply from the
room Itself was tried, with the re
sult that It waa found that the ven
tilation was thus Increased by T4
per cent
Finally, a series of tests waa
made in which the vent pipe In the
celling wss opened. This waa
most effective, the ventilation be
ing Increased two and one-half to
two and three-quarter times, and
in one case even five times. Ob
viously, this increased ventilation
must affect the humidity of, and
proportion of carbonlo acid In. the
room.
Scientists believe, however, thai
these testa with the opea Went
pipe have not much practical ala
nlQcance, aa there la usually Bf
provision for celling ventilation lrf
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