The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1867-09-05

II Milton married three times and
Shakespeare once, the former enjoyed
little coojugd felicity, and tho latter
lived alone during his productive years.
Bacon and Goethe married late in life.
Lafontaine married at twent-six, but
abandoned his wife early in the honey
moon, and never saw her again except
on business. Moliers suffered, says
Voltaire. in the marriage which he con-
tracted at forty-one, twelve years be-
fore his death, "les degouts, les amer
TUNES, ct Qaelquefois es ridicules, qu'iz
auoit 81 souu:nt jones sur 1e THEATRE"
Beaumarchais, early in life, and years
before be wrote the play upon which his
reputation rests, lost two wives, one of
whom nc vas calumniously reported to
have poisoned. Addison, At forty-four,
three years before his death, married a
countess, "vho was no better" says
Thackeray, ethan shrew and vixen"
Sterne complains that the presence Of
his wife stopped the flow Of his ideas,
and finds inspiration in the society Of
another mans wife. Leasing did his
best work before he fell in love, or after
his vlfe's death, and was in state Of
intellectual torpor during the six years
engagement and his one years mar
risge:. The insanity Of Thackeray's
.ife made him practically = :widover
during his last snd7 greatest days. -
Plato, warned BY Socrates experience,
Aristophanes, Anacreon, Lucretius,
Virgil, Horace, :Voltalre. Rousseau,
Swift, Pope, Goldsmith, Heine, Balzac,
Beranser, sainte;Reuve, and in our
own country, Irving and Thoreau, never
married In the Kindred arts, the great
names" Of Beethoven and Michael
Angelo, of whom their biograpbers as
sert:; not only that they never married,
bpt that they never loved in any but
Pl,tonic sense, are enough to cite. Of
female writer's, many Of the most emf
nent, from Miss Austen, the excellent
teller of domestic tales, to Miss Martin,
Miss Cobbe, Miss Hewitt, aud Miss
Bremen, never took husbands; while
others, like Miss Brorte, found that
matrimony put needle between their
fingers instead of. pen. Almost oil
the great vriten of the Middle Ages
we're ecclesiastics, and Of course, cell
bates. And q marriage amo1g the
Greeks Vas simply = housekeeping con.
venience, the husband spending his
day and evening abroad, while the wife
seved. cooked, and paid the bills, ali
the Athenian poets and philosophers
should be accounted bachelors. A large
portion Of the writer's whose works
belong to the same general class With
those of Lamb, the writer's whose privi-
lege it has been to enliven, cheer, and
sveeten life, we're either bachelors or
unfortunate husbands. Happy or not
themselves, they have been the cause
of happiness to Others, have reached
the secret springs of laughter and Of
tears, and by those touches Of nature
which make the; whole world kin, have
awakened the better selves of their
readers, and communicated TO them the
love for their-fellov- beings With which
their own hearts were filed. The
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women it is not, necessary to be hus-
band, that to love children it is not
necessary to be father, and that We
may dove our brethren Of mankind"
without being bribed thereto by Words
rorth's ."DoWer of. Clustering Chari-
ties."- ."-North Arne~:~." fepse'o.