The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-04-08
Il Couldn't Marry Any One
but a Soldier" Explains
Bride of Captain knyvett.
He, Already Victim of 20
Wounds, Hopes to Get
Back to Fight Again.
MARGUERITE MooERs MARSHALL


at was love at first sight-practi-
lcally--but l coul,ii1t marry any one but
a soldier. And if he can go back to the
front ! shall never try to stop him-Ln TN
deed, l hope he gets well enough to
! go"
| The tall white-skinned. gray oysi
lgirl who is Mrs. II. Hugh knyvett thurs
summed up for me the fine simple creed
| of one soldiers wife when ! met her
and her gallant, haggard husband yes
lterday at No. 26 East Eighth street.
where they are stepping. He spoke the
other night at Carnegie hall for the
National Aeronautic committee OF tn"
Women's Naval service.
| It's another real war romance. After
three years of the hardest KIND 81
Fighting ut Gallipoli and on the west
Tern front, Captain Knyveu, in1ih-
gence officer and scout of the l3lh
Australian infantry, was given "a iuf~
Tough to recuperate from the ~
wounds he received at Bapaume. th
itell YOU about those laterD
He came to America. Before he
volunteered, at the beginning Of tn"
war. he was "A pearl fisher of Qne"ES-
land. In Los Angeles six months ago
Icountrywoman, "A niece Of Cyril Msiud"'
tho actor. who came from New South
| Wales with her aunt to try "A chahBe
of air after severe illness.
| or course there was no sidestspiihE
Tho fate that had brought these two
vouur Anzacs and semi-invalidR clear
laround the world To effect nntnhE
an American soil. The tall young WON
Ian with the frank smile and the won
Ia.rfulIy perfect chin fell in love WIN
lc.nt,in Knyyett of the 20 wounds. ana
lcantain Knyvett fell In love with h"r'
lite had to make a trip to Chicago. nut
lin three months he came back ana WAS
} married with the simplest OF war we'd
idings, Since then his wife mas he'h
travelling about the country with hitfi'
Irving to keep him well enough to tul-
fill his lecture engagements ana en-
lcouraging him bravely In his hop" tha'
1.-The doctors win allow him to 60 BACK
Ito the trenches.
1 Her sea colnred eyes watched hin
with some anxiety yesterday after moor
las he innped about the apartment or
West Eighth street, coughing VINE h'
moved or spoke too quickly. 40
| 1T IL that pleurisy" she siehed y
wish he would get well enough TO ~
back. He is 30 keen to go. can
hear to think of anything more hap
peniup to him-and yet there are othei
ltoys OF ours over there stili-boys wh'
haven't even been home once since th'
lbeeinning of the war. We are 80 pfou'
of them. No girl in Australia "oulo
marry anybody now, except soldier
| and when the boys do get furioheh'
there are lots of simple war weddings
Each man likes 10 feel that no matter
how battered up he may be In th'
trenches, there is a wife at nome wait
ing for him. And the girls do not
worry selfshly about the possihiiity Z"
disfigurement in the men they love.
.You American women Will be hE'
that" Mrs. knyvett added confidently
"Eyen now you must be so proud OF
iyour men"
! II planned 10 go back this month
lraptain Knyvett told me. shadow o'
: bitter grievance on his brown. hollo"
checked sens!tiveiy modelled face
r Now the doctors assure me that my
. lungs are permanently weakened
, never was so i'll in my life before.
/ went through two years Of trench life
. without a scratch--now I'm an old mar
at 30"
He wasn't complaining, except owe
the decree which liz keeping him To-
1.-THE present away from the BATH" line
But as ! listened and studied him,
could not help feeling he had earned
. the right to tell Carnegie hall audi
c ence-as he did tell it last winter: "
C have been looking for pactfist eve
G since l came to this country, an'
when ] meet him ! shall ask him
What the hell have you ever done 10
peace that you pirate about III
What / said to Captain Knysett wa
Il that I thought he must bear a charnc'
Ie life to be carrying about 20 wounds.
"a bomb burst near me when | wa