Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-02-04
THE>MARRIAGE OF GREAT MEN.

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Byron married Miss Milbank to get mo-
ney to pay his debts. It turned out bad
habit.
Robert Burns married farm girl with
whom he fell in love while they worked to-
gether in a plowed field. He was irregular
in his life, and committed the most serious
mistakes in conducting his domestic af-
fairs
Milton married the daughter OF coun-
try sqire, but lived with her but shoIt
time. He was an austere literary recluse,
while she was rosy, romping country lass
that could not endure the restraint i'm
posed upon her, so they separated Suisse
quently, however, she returned, and they
lived tolerably happy.
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were
cousins, and about the only example in the
long line of English monarchs wherein the
marital vows were sacredly observed, and
sincere affe elton existed.
Shakespeare loved and welded farmer IS
daughter. She was faithful to her VOWS,
but we could scarcely say the same Of the
bard himself -Like most of the great po-
cts, he showed too little discrimination in
bestowing his affections on the other sex.
Washington married woman with two
children. 1t is enough to say she was wor-
thy of him, and they lived as married folks
should Eve-in perfect harmony.
John Adams married the daughter of a
Presbyterian clergyman. Her father OBJ
jected on account Of John being lawyer.
He had bad opinion of the morals of the
profession. aai
John Howard, the great philanthropist
married his nurse. She was altogether be-
meath him in social life and intellectual ca
pacity, and besides this was fifty-two years
old, while he was but twenty-five. He
would not take "no" for an answer, and
they were married and lived happily togeth-
er until she died, which occurred two years
afterwards.
Peter the Great, of Russia married d
sagacious Empress.
Humboldt married a poor girl because he
loved her. Of course they were happy.
1t is not generally known that Andrew
Jackson married a lady whose husband
was still living. She was an uneducated
but amiable woman, and was most devo-
tedly attached to the old warrior and states
man.
John G. CALHOUN married his cousin, and
their children, fortunately, were neither
diseased nor idiotic, but they do not evince
the talent of the great State Rights advo-
cate.
MARRIAGE QUARRELs.-People talk of
lovers quarrels, probably because they
are not quarrels atall. She pouts, he kiss
es he frowns. she coaxes. It's half play
and they know it. Matrimonial quarrels
are another thing, doubt seriously if
married people ever truly forgive each 9th
er after the first falling:out. They gloss it
over; they kiss, and make up; the wound
apparently heals but only, as some of those
horrible wounds given in battle do, to break
out again at some unexpected moment.
The man who has sneered and said cruel
things to a sensitive woman never has her
whole heart again. The woman who has
uttered reproaches to man can never be
taken to his bosom with the same tender
ness as before those words were spoken.
The two people who must never quarrel
are husband and wife. One may fall out
with kinsmen, and make up, and be friends
again. The tie of blood is a strong one,
and affection may return after it has flown
away; but love, once banlshed, is dead
and buried thing. The heart may ache,
but it is with hopelessness. 1t may be i'm
possible to love any one else but it is more
impossible to restore the old idol to it's
empty niche. For a word or two, for a
sharpening Of the wits, for moments self
assertion, two people have often been made
miserable for life; for, whatever there may
be before, there are: mo lovers quarrels af-
ter marriage.
At a recent marriage of young lady,
the following good advice was given to the
bride and her husband:
'Never talk at but to each other. New
er both maintain anger at the same time.
Never speak loud or boistarously to each
other. Never reproach each other in pres
ence of others. Never find fault OF fret
about what cannot be helped, Never re-
peat an order or request when understood
Never make remark at the others ex.
pense. Neglect everybody else rather than
each other. "-Margaret Fuller.
DEBT.-The Cuthbert, (Ga.) "Appeal':
gives it's readers brief and pointed ser.
mon on the contraction of debts:
''Half the perplexity, annoyance and
trouble that men have in this world is in
consequence of getting into debt. 1t seems
to be natural for some people to buy, AND
incur OhlipatiOnS without measure ca lono