Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-09-27
BEAUTIFUL MEN.
The Opera Chaps With Wh0ns Young W0ns
en- Fall Desperately In LOUe.
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makeup, they refuse to analyze tn
charms of tenor, and his grease, paint
luxuriant locks and graceful mustach'
are admired as his very own.
Il Unlucilly these fascinated young WON
en- have no opportunity of seeing thu
, adored object as he sits at the family ta
kble,y devouring beefsteak and onions
with three small children at his knee, an(
a wife who perchance seasons the mea
| by reading aloud the tender effusion.
emanating from these deluded young
creatures.
1t is fact that, with one or two excep.
tons, all the best known singers are mar,
ried men with families, and do not know
one of them who, in private life, could
be called handsome, yet they all, even
going outside the ranks of singers, to
that gross fellow with three wives-Levy
Ito Campanini, red-faced, fat, and with
five children, are inundated with love
letters, bouquets and presents.
The men who have the most common
sense and the most principal laugh at
these epistles and destroy them-a good
thing for the writers-but there are 9TH
ers, less honorable, who do not hesitate
to take advantage in various ways of
these pretty little ninnies. Hers is an
instance that came to my knowledge last
winter:
The 17-pear- old daughter of DR.. w,
OF this city, fell, or imagined she did,
wildly in love with mellOw-voiced bari
tone in the Mapleson company. Under
an assumed name she wrote him gushing
and romantic little notes, and finally sent
her photograph. The face was so lovely
that it piqued the singers curiosity; but
it was in vain he plead for an opportunity
to see it. Miss w. could only enjoy
her escapade as long as she maintained
her incognito.
Finally the baritone, noting the name
Of the photographer, visited his parlors
and ascertained his correspondents name
Then he wrote to her under her real adj
dress, saying he had identified her, and
she could have the choice of having her
picture and notes back and giving her
| 5000 in cash, or he wovld tell a reporter
of the Police Gazette the story and have
the picture published.
There is little likelihood such threat
would have been carried out, but the girl
was so terribly frightened that she sent
him all the money she could >scrapc to-
gether, and the rest of the sum in
| jewelry
| Another case with better ending was
that Of young lady whose father is we'll
known ON the Stock Exchange. She was
violently smitten with Campanini, and
used to send him no end of beautifully
written missives, and every night bou-
quet of red roses. The letters especially
attracted the attention of the tenor, be-
| cause they were written in smoothly
Rowing Italian, and evidently by some
| one who was more romantic than fast or
wild
There was little trouble in finding out
the fair correspondent, and Nine. Cam
panini, who has good and lovely soul,
| sent note to the young lady and asked
her to call. 1t is needless to say the lat
ter's delightful decisions were quickly
dispelled before the domestic life of the
silver-toned tenor and the kindly advice
of his good wife.
The extent to which these serio-comic
love affairs are carried on are enormous,
| and sometimes the parties show an anus
ing ingenuity in their correspondence
Del Puente once nearly went wild with
ungratified curiosity through the pranks
of mischevious school girl, who was
perpetually sending HIM love letters, in
which she declared she never missed a
single night when he sung, and that
when he left New York on his tour
with Her Majesty's company she should
follow him and be present at every per-
| Torrance.
Sure enough, in every city where he
sung he received pretty note of con-
graduation, with the usual information
| that the writer, dressed as usual, in black,
| was present. Of course there were al
ways a number of young and pretty
women in this somber hue, but which
| was his correspondent Del Puente never
| could decide. The letters were always
| postmarked with the name of the city he
happened to bein, and finally he became
| really nervous with the idea of an un..
known woman following him in this
shadowy fashion
His curiosity was not destined to be sat-
isfied until long afterward, when he
found that the fair unknown cleverlv
| following the published route, would
send stamped but undirected letter to
the postmaster of the city he happened
to be in, with request that he would
ascertain the singers address and for
ward it. AS long as the letter was stamp
ed this was sure to be done, and the tenor
never failed to receive the missive.
| A case of bassO infatuation was that
| of daughter of an ex-senator, still
prominent in Washington circles, who
used to spend all her pin money in buy
ing presents and baskets of flowers which
she sent Conley. In some mysterious
way her father received hint of it, and
the young lady was sent to the George
town convent, where she was educated
for a couple of years by way of punish
ment.
Castle, though neither so young nor so
charming as he once was, still receives
loads of gushing epistles, which Mrs.
Castle demurely twists into cigar light
ers; and Brignoli says 81 hat teached
misself re 1nglis language with these
fiddle lettres.''
In Chicago, your correspondent is told,
there resides wealthy and charming
young married lady who entertains hand
somely, and is well known in society, but
who distracts her elderly husband by a
mania for making the acquaintanc of
every new male singer of note, and enter
tanning him with the greatest elegance
and expense.
Of course majority of these affairs
are entered into either in the spirit of
romance or mischief, but in either case it
is apt to result disastrously, and the
world has cruelty uncomfortable way of
stamping them with another and harsher
name.
| Deaf Hates Married.
A marriage of novel and interesting
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