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Then out of the red haze of war returned a friend of her childhood an English captain terribly wounded while leading his men in a charge on a German trench. The big, pathetic hero met the sparkling little artiste and their strange romance began. "A woman with a career," said aMiss Teyte after news of the engage-' nent, which she had intended tq keep a secret, leaked out, "seldom makes a good wife in the accepted sense of the word. "It is different in this case, for the captain to whom I am engaged suffer ed for his country, and I shall be more Jike a mother to him. Every woman should have a child. I have none, and so my future husband will be my child. To achieve happiness in mar ried life one of the two parties must always be dependent upon the other. I am too rebellious by nature to be the dependent one, so I expect to find my happiness by having someone de pendent upon me. "No," she said emphatically when asked what her new name would be, "I cannot tell you the name of my fiance. That at least is to remain a secret until we are married. We shall be married in England very quietly, and shortly before the marriage takes place Americans will know the time, the place and the man. "I knew him as a child, but we went? different ways and did not meet for years. Not until after he had been injured, in the service of our king and. country, did I think of marrying the captain!" Miss Teyte divorced her French husband, Dr. Eugene Plumon, several a months ago. ' There are plenty of precedents for her actiop in chosing a maimed sol dier for a husband. Similar mar riages of patriotism have reached such numbers that the Church of England, has taken hand in the mat ter. The result is that the Bev. E. Hiughton, of Bristol, England, who started a matrimonial bureau for the purpose of marrying off the disabled British soldiers to healthy women who would take t:are of them, has been ordered by the church to give up his connection with the League of the Marrying of Broken Heroes. The dignitaries did not approve of so radical an iljea " But the women of France have an nounced that they will marry the men-who,have given up arms and legs fox la Patrie. The midinettes of Paris, ;'the peasant women of the Pyrenees, .the ladies of the chateaux, have proven equal to the sacrifice of the womensof Lombardy who, after the province, had been freed of the German yoke,' decided to wed no one but men wounded in defending their country! , o b SHE URGES, STATEjCONTROLLED MARRIAGE BUREAU jT&H.rjquWKEis:ce. This Chicago woman, superinten dent of the social service department of Cdok c6uriy", suggests" a ""state mating bureau to solve the question: "Why doesn't the American bache lor marry$" MMMAMiftiMiftitiiiiiMiiflliflitt