Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1869-08-05
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Whom do Great Men Marry3

Charles Is. Stevens, IN the March
number of the chronological Journal,
answers this question as follows:
Women, OF course. But they show
the same diversity of taste tha: j. sees
in the lower ranks, and on the whole
make worse mistakes. They, howey-
cr, generally show the same sense in
choosing wives that they show in man
aging other peoples affairs, whether it
be good or bad.
John Howard, the great philanthro-
pist, married his nurse. She was alto
geiher beneath him in social lite and
intellectual capacity. and besides this,
was titty-two years old while he was
but twenty five. lie would not take
mo" for an answer, and they were
married, and lived happily together
years aiterward.
Peter the Great, of Russia, married
a peasant girl. She made an excellent
wife and sagacious Empress.
Humboldt married poor girl be-
cause he loved her. OF course they
We're happy.
Shakespeare loved and we'd a farm
er's daughter. She was faithful to her
vows, but we could hardly say the
same OF the great bard himself. Like
most OF the great poets he showed too
little discrimination in bestowing his
atfections OH the other sex.
Byron married Miss Milbank to get
money to pay his debts. 1t turned
out a bad SHIFT.
| Robert Burns married farm girl
with whom he fell in love while they
worked together in the plow- field
He, too, was irregular in life, and COM
mitted the most serious mistakes in
conducting his domestic affairs.
Milton married the daughter of a
country squire, but he lived with her
but short time. He was an austere,
exacting, literary recluse; while she
was rosy, romping country lass that
could not endure the restraints he inn
posed upon her, and SO they separated.
Subsequently, however, she returned,
and they lived tolerably happy.
Queen Victoria and Price Albert
were cousins, and about the only ex.
ample in the long line of English mon
archs wherein the martial vows were
sacredly observed and sincere affection
existed.
| Washington married a widow with
two children. It is enough to say o1
her that she was worthy of HIM, and
that they lived as married folks should
| in perfect harmony.
| John Adams married the daughter
of a Presbyterian clergyman. Hel
father objected on account Of Johns
being a lawyer; he had bad opinion
Of the morals Of the profession.
Thomas Jefferson married Mrs
Martha SHELTON, childless widow
but she brought him fortune in rea
estate. After the ceremony shemount
} ed the horse behind him and they rod.
home together. It was late in thu
evening. and they found tho fire out
But the great statesman hustled arount
and rebuilt it, while she seized tn,
broom and soon put things in order
1t is needless to say that they were
happy, Jefferson died a poor man OF
account of his extreme liberality an,
hospitality.
II benjamin Franklin married the cir
who stood at her fathers door ant
laughed at him rs he wandered through
+ the streets of Philadelphia with roll
OF bread under his arms and his pock
cts filed with dirty clothes. She ha,
occasion to be happy when she toun,
herself the vile OF such great an,
good man.
1t is not generally known that An
drew jackson married a lady who's
husband was still living. She was al
uneducated but amiable woman, an,