Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-08-22

From the New York World
A curious phase Of the late Dixie scandal IA
the sympathy shown the recreant lover BY his
hance on learning the unpleasant revelations,
There are so few exceptions to the ordinary i'm
pulses governing human nature In such cases
that the public was struck dumb with surprise
when 1t read the intelligence that the lady who
was engaged to Sir Charles telegraphed her con-
dolence to him In his difficulty, and babe him
to Immediately announce their engagement
and coming marriage. It ia quite probable
that no one was more surprised than Sir
Charles himself.
This lady who has leaped into notoriety In
this unique manner IL the widow Of the late
Mark Pattisou, the distinguished author and
scholar and rector Of Lincoln Collage, Oxford.
lady of culture and even brilliancy, and is the
author Of meritorious work on 1.-THE Renais-
sance OF Art in France" illustrated by herself
mans rights agitation In England, having acted
as cha1rwOman at their meetings on several oc-
casions. She is daughter Of Col. Strong, Of the
Madras army, who, after having allowed q
large fortune to slip from him through ill-ad-
vised investments, accepted the presidency Of q
literary tastes and fond Of art especially paint
ing. His family consisted of his wife and two
daughters, the elder of whom married the Rev.
MIR. Tuckneli, Of New College. and the second Of
whom is the present fiance OfSir Charles Dixie.
She was then entering her teens. She is described
as being at that time bright, vivacious girl,
Dr. James Thomson, man Of brusque manners
and noted bon-vivant was rector of Lincoln
change, "been brought up from his country liv-
ing and elected to the headship by q clique of
Fellows who were resolved TO prevent Mark Pat
tison's election, because he was nervous and
unc1ubable, and cared neither for wine, beer,
cards or tobacco. On one occasion, addressing
the rosy Emily Frances Strong, who in due
time became Mrs. Pattison, and is TO be Lady
Dixie, he pinched her cheeks and praised their
freshness, and as he gulped down another large
~ nld Ho fc6o tv
sufficiently capacious wine-glass-bade her be-
ware her elder sisters pailor; which, said this
ree1o6iai d. b d. III wager is caused by reading
At this time Mark Pattison was q country
rector, having found it impossible to submit TO
son. After the latters death Pattison was
elected rector Of Lincoln In his place. Miss
Emily Strong was now grown to be beautiful
says the writer quoted, ''gained her the reputa-'
ton of q fiirt, and many an undergraduate was
grinding at the classics his mind languished for
Emily Strong. Many a careworn youth who,
for her sake, had been plucked for ittlego,
church, a famous Norman church she was fond
Of attending, in the hope of repeating his TIE
Deum within sight of her and winning from
nef one OF hef beaming recognitions and intOx-
icating smiles. But Emily, though she loved
youth, loved age and station more, and when
proposed for her she caGt overheard. perhaps
with some natural tears soon dried, the youth
iuI admirers and candidates who had basked
In the deiusive sunshine OF her smiles" The
marriage was not a happy one. The latter
years of Mark Pattison's life were embittered
by domestic inielicities: In his Memoirs"
which the fair Emily edited after his
death, he tells US that his whole life was
made wretched "by the combined sense
Of selfconsciOusness and standardization"
During the last years of their married life Mrs.
Pattison lived almost entirely abroad. and the
rectors pretty house ut Lincoln would have
been desolate but for the welcome presence Of q
tavorite niece, in whom he took much pride.
While his wife found pleasure in travel and
society be sought sOlace IN his books and philO-
soph1cai studies. The spring of 1858 found
him, ptckaxe in hand, en- route to POitiers in
pursuit OF knowledge. He visited Nantes New
Rochelle and many Of the little towns OF "Old
France, which he styled "the real France full
of things curious from one end TO the other"
This journey was a great strain on his already
worn and enfeebled frame, and he died shortly
after his return to Oxford, July 30, 1854. His
fair relict, after the proper time had elapsed,
devoted herself with renewed zeal 10 that pur-
suit OF pleasure she had sought outside the
domestic circle. Few persons knew her pres
ent whereabouts till she startled the public the
other day by telegraphiDg her sympathy from
India to Sir Charles Dixie, and bidding him
announce their engagement as 4 sort of vindi-
cation, as it were, Of bis mis:'ap In falling be
tween the two stools of his pretty French mis-
treSs and the gay Mrs. Cav ord.