National Republican., 1877-11-05
W0MAN'S CORNER.
Edited BY Fannie n. ward.

1tt " might be
That never for mo
Tho pain at the heart should ceasef
How many ~ forth In the morning
That never come home at night
And many hearts have been broken
ny harsh words spnken,
Thai sDrrUw can neer set right
We have careful thought for the stranger,
Al, smiles for the sometime guest
But on for our own"
The bitter tone,
Ihough we love Our own" the best
Al lIrs, with cutsr impatt,ntl
All brow. with that look Of srorni
Iwcfc cruel fate
Were the night too late
To undo the work vf the morn.
Three Originals"
The world has long been led 10 believe that
one Mrs. Black, nee Maori, Of Athcus. was the
inamorata to whom Lord Byron addressed
the well-known lines
Maid Of Athens. ere we part
Give, oh, give me back my heart"
The lady, however. was much ANNOYED in
her time by this association Of her name with
that of the gifted but dssolnte poet. and hri
friends have taken pains TO prove that the
story was untrue. What first gave rise 10 he
rhmor was this: While Mr.. Maori, who was
Greek, was British consul at Athens, Lord
Byron stopping In the city several months
made the consul's house his home. Mr. Macriis
family consisted Of his wife and three Lowell,
little daughters aged respectively ten. eight
and five years, When Byron left Athens the
oldest Of these childrcn-aftcrwartis Ma
Black-was but eleven wears old and she
never saw him again. In clearing up the
erratic poets room after he had vacated IL
and you may be sure Il was
IN A TERRIBLE MUsa
having been used as a sort of literary "dcn-
various papers were collected and thrown
into barrel, nobod y deeming them of the lcasS
Cn m ,I a ..al
accents had made Rome howl" In that locality
as they now infest the streets of Washington,
those scraps would have been speedily dis.
posed of, and In such manner that no tacs
would have arisen, to the ANNOYANCE OF another
generation. When the Greek revolution 90
CURED, In 1921, Mr.. Maori was driven from
Athens, and aed with his family to the island
OF Corfu. Their household goods were .
hastily packed that it chanced-as Is often the
case In confingrations and other sudden aud
exciting rcmovals-thst effects considered ot
most value are generally left behind, while
comparatively useless articles arc carefully
conveyed to place of safety; among the lattcs
was the barrel Of rubbish containing the port',
waste-paper. But meantime the lame Lord had
became famous, even in Corfu, and was con.
sidered as the greatest Of living authors. Mrs
Macri, remembering with pride that he had
once been her guest, one day with her daugh.
tiers examined the contents of the barrel and
among other efusions found
THE POEM IN OF I.STIuN
or course 1t was shown to friends of the
family. and Miss Macri, the eldest. being thcs
q beautiful young lady, was generally sup
posed to be its subject, those who read for
getting that she was but ten years old when 10
waswritten. She subsequently larried, as will
be remembered, Officer Black, Of the British
Marine Guard, at Corfu, and recently died u
an advanced age, leaving an only daughter,
who Is said to closely resemble her. But whs
was the real Maid of Athens" is still .
mystery.
The originals of Goethe's
ALBERT AND CHARLOTTE,
In the Sorrows of Werthcr," lived in the
little village Of Werther, in the Duchy a
Solms, the very flower of the charming valley
OF the lakes In 1772 Johann Wolfcsns
G6the came there, and found Its surrounding
woods. smiling fields, and romantic solitude
well suited to his dreamy moods poetic fixhts
and sentimental ehdfeauL en- Espdgne In ths
simple calm Of rural village life he had smpls
leisure to indulge In imaginary doubts, phi
losophies, sunerings, and sorrows. Charlotts
was not at all the sentimental picture de-
picted in "Werther," but was . serene, open
hearted, commonplace German girl, an er-
cellent housewife, and Q notable manager
withal. The poet deliberately foil in love
with her while fully aware Of her engagement
to Kestner; but Lottchen is said TO have always
treated him with most exemplary discretioa.
To rush beadlons into hopeless passioa
which he knew could only end In disaster wu
but in keeping with the romantic folly which
was the fashion of the day, and Kestnsr -
peared to view the situation with true Germs6
stolidity, amounting to indifference.
scoTr's "REBEccA"
was PhiladelphiA belle and beauty, Mi9
Gratz, who reigned among the old.tims blue
bloods Of the Quaker City over half . century
ago. An admirer Of the beautiful JswuS
showed her miniature to Washington Irvlne,
who was SO struck with It that he sbtaips2
permission from tho owner to have . COPY
made. When he visited Sir Walter Scott =
carried tho picture Of the Philadelphia beauty
and exhibited 1t to tho novelist, telling Nh
something Of her story, whereupon Scott d,
lineated the wonderful character Of the JswisA
maiden In "Ivanhos.n