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Old-Fashioned Ideas orMarried Couple Ought to Behave

by Guido Ciccolmi, theGrand Opera Tenor, Who Has

Just Wedded an Athletic,

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IIJ'N f;vi 1do Ciccolini. tho grand\Y/ opera tenor, who ranks only sec-* * oud to Caruso in fame, marrieiljust tho other day Miss I3etty Sutphin,the accomplished, charming and athleticdaughter of the wealthy and fashionableNew York family of that name, a veryinteresting romance began another chap¬ter.

But the romance. Interesting as it is,conceals a still more interesting question.how long can tho chapter last?This perplexity has nothing whatever to

do with any of the circumstances of thewooing, winning and wedding of Miss Sut¬phin by tho sinser. It has its roots inMr. Ciccolitii's ideals of what marriageought to be. These are oxtromely concreteand old-fashioned.

Put in briefest possible form, they arethat when a girl marries she oughtn't de¬vote any time or thought to any man ex¬cept her husband.

Mr. Ciccolini puts it in even fewer words:"My wife must lie a bird In a cage!"But so, he adds, must tlie husband!This proposition, terse and simple as it

seems, at once presents complicationswhen set beside the steadily increasingfreedom of women, the modern attitudeof independence of daughter, mother andgrand ma so far as their males are con¬cerned and tlieir assumption that the wed¬ding rinsr is a token of trust and not abrand of privare ownership that shackleseven their friendships. To manv it willFPom like Hip Van Winkle, just awakened,strolling down Peacock Alloy. Others willno doubt sympathize with Mr. CiccoHnt'spoint ot view.What uresents the peculiar complica¬

tions are the lives, past and present, ofMr. Ciccolini and his bride themselves.Mrs. Ciccolini has been reared like any

other American girl, whether wealthy orin moderate circumstances. She has beenused to a far broader freedom than thesienorinas of her husband's land or thedemoiselles of France. She has hr.d hostsof voune men friends who have dancedand nlaved tennis, swam and driven withher. She has liked them, still likes them.She ha-= been brought up, like most Amer¬ican firl'-. "with the boys."Can :she suddenly sten awav from all

these into the cage of her husband's idealsand remain happy?On the other hand. Mr. Ciccolini is a

grand opera tenor. Students of the emo-lions havf'.'vt down as a tried and testedfa< t that there is nothlnir like a grandopera tenor to move a woman's heart. Thegreatest violinist or piunlst cannot so rdavupon its strings as can he. This powerhas become recognized as part of hiscapital, one of his assets.

"A grand opera tenor, like any othergreat artist, belongs to his art and theworld His wife should he happy to havewhat is left of him.'

So r un the formula of tho tempcra-mental. Hut be.-ide this admiration hemust appear in many parts. Usually thotf things he chaperoned orwith her husband every

second, and it is most surprising howmany rn«;n or r.eerningly respectable ap¬pearance so torture beautiful women as to

» make their beauty a eurr'O insteadof ; blessing. Of course there is not":/;j,iatloi: In thl. for any real woman,i>.:t the boldness and cunning of thesemen'lH "astounding, and they cause no endof trouble.'

"If I could riot hear to think of nil thi*v.l'fi ret pert to my v. ifo, how could I ex-I ' t her to bear it with respect to myself,'¦ en though it is said that as a grand"pera tenor I belong to the public?

Ari artlat bclongB to the public onlyv hile he or she. is appearing before that.iblle. And surely the public will admire

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And purely il in pof-.tlble to admiro the artof an artist without finding It necessaryto admiro him personally!"\Vhrn n man lovoi. a woman as deeply

and as unreservedly us I lovo my Hettyand marries ljor. oven though he is a pub¬lic character lnusmurh as he is an artist,hc» Ihr-p-hy < lects to r ign :»11 other womenin the world and jo confine the giving andreceiving of all attentions to that enowoman his w!ro.

"i irtupialifie iiy expect that of my '-vlfe,and 1 know slio expects it of mo, And weshall both conform to that rule. Is it notso, Hetty?"

Mrs. Ciccolini seemed to have no reser¬vations in her acceptance of the points o?this league - hut (hero was something ofwist fulness in her answer.

"I Know that this demands that at timesI will fairly he like a bird in a cage," shesaid. "A girl usually has more boy friondathan girl friends, and It Is awfully hardpractically to have to give up life-longfriendships and associations with manycharming men. Hut then every girl whois lucky enough to find the mm she reallyloves and marries him should do that."And this won't be so hard for me, par¬

ticularly when I think how much more myGreat Uritulii lllghts ICtsorvcil.

husband fr. giving up, because you knowa world-famous tenor really does huvoninny feminine admirers unci a life ofgayoty, both so dear to the hearts of mostmen."

Very touching, very romantic, very ideal¬istic.and this such n hard, hard worldfor the tender feet of ideals to tread! Itwill take courage.

If it will ta!;o courage, as undoubtedlyIt will, for Mrs. Oiccollni to carry out thetreaty, has given proof that sho hasno lack of it. I lor heroic, rescue of thesecretary of the late President Rooseveltfurnishes 0110 example. She ssvod himfrom drowning, at risk of her own life, inthe Sound at Oyster Bay, where the Sut-phins luivo their Summer home. The loi¬ter and photograph that Mr. Rooseveltsent her In acknowledgement of thatachievement is one of her most treasuredpossessions.

Mr, Ciccolini makes a reservation forsuch attentions as the saving of a loneman.And yet.ought he? For it was by a

similar attention that he himself met MissStitphin, and their love was born. Ciccolini had been injured in an automobile ac-cii'cnt on Long Island. He lay uncon-

Bcioua. Miss Sutphin happened to comealong. put him in her car, rushed him to ahospital and as soon as it was allowedhelped nurse him hack to life and strength.

Before he had left the hospital the twohad plighted themselves to each other.And their marriage was quite unex¬

pected.that is, the date of it. Ciccoliniwas on tour. The set day was considera¬bly in the future. His plans were takinghim to California. Some one impressedupon his bride-to-be the dangerous charmsof the California ladies.And a telegram came that made the

singer break his tour and turn right backto Lone; Island and the wedding ring. Mrs.Ciccolin? frankly admits that she .wasnervous. But now. her star safely marriedto her and with the ideals described, ofcourse she need no longer be nervous,and is not.Ought a wife live In a cage?Ought a husband?Can she?

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Can he?Only time can answer.