Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1885-10-14
PEOPLE OF LETTERS,
WHOSE MARRIED LIVES SAVIOR o.
LlcloUSLY OF ROMANCE
philadelphia Times.I


Nathaniel Ha wthorne, strange, shy, NOR
bid, having more than the eccentricities
enius, did not marry Iphia Peabody, also
ocular, until near ~, an age when it l.
co mmonly difficult for bachelors to adapt
the m selves to new conditions They were
quite poor, tlo-poyerty always adds to the
strain and burden OF wsilock AM had
ycxations and grievances without end. Any
ne might have prophesied that such
union would have All unfortunate termina.
ton, for all the sources Of disharmony AMI
estrangement were in it. But il proved ex.
ceptionally happy lie an she were brought
most closely tpgstIer by their narrow cir
cumstancs' and retiring disposition, and the
clio or they got the nearer they grsw-tle
fuller and deeper their sympathy became.
INSTRUMENTATION.
Ralph Wal 10 Emerson had two wives
The first, Ellen Louisa Tucker, livel but
five months; the second, Lillian Jackson
be was 39 when lie welded her-still sur
wives, aud is an exalted spg cimen Of woman.
hood. IL has been repeatedly asserted that
poet and philosopher make wrstchsi con-
jugal partners; that they carry neither po-
etry nor philosophy into the seclusion OF
their home. Emerson, Jwsver, was both
poet aud philosopher and yet al excellent
husband performing all the duties OF the
position completely and faithfully AMI lend
ing il every grace of his fine nature anl ID.
velopment His rare combinati n II tue
practical AMI ideal fittsi him 10 be the
head Of a household, and a delightful heal
be was No one who ever visited him
failed to te fifty to both his genuine no ,pi.
tally AMI his a lmirabls marltllism.
SDOngfellow was nowhere more OF poet
than in his own family. His wife, Miss Apple
ton, was burned 10 dea h by the lgniting OF
her gar ments when she was preparing for
party, AMI the terrible tragedy never
passed from his mind or heart She was
lovely creature, il was universally conceded,
and he mournsd her loss which came when
be was comparatively young, % hi' dying
hour. He did not murmur nor VII.
bly, grieys, but hs sat patiently, though PEN
sively under the shadow OF his great atil c.
ton, eyincing a beautiful resignation to his
widowerhood. Asa father he was an ex-
ample of geltlene s, tenderness and affsc-
ton, and his children adorel him. For
thirty years he lvel alone, never seskng
10 assuage hts bereavement by taking an
other companion.
L0WELL-WHTTE
Lowell has bsen shining example Of all
that man ought to be in the tendere It an !
sacredest OF relations TO women He also
has been twice married. His first wife,
Maria White, lived but nine years, dying al
81, and leaving behind her a reputation the
aroma Of which still fingers about Cam.
bridge and another eneration has AZ isen
since she passed into the realm Of eternal Il.
lence. sac was likewise poet, and her ex.
quisitely delicate and tender songs, printed
privately in volume, show that her mind
aud culture have not been oyerpraised The
second Mrs. Lowell was long an invalil, and
his devotion to her was everywhere shown
A man Of the world, fond Of society and
convival occasions Of a refined order, be
never neglected her for day.
The late Richarl Grant White was an
ardent lover Of hons, having been seen lit
tie in general society and not q member OF
any OF the large clubs The manifold show
and festivities OF the metropolis, except
fine play, seldom allurei him from the
Lares aud Penatss-the chief deites
worshiped his threshold
uuN ELlas-ol EDhAN-IUhllSs
William ID. Howells. who welded the
sister Of Larkin @. lead, the sculptor,
divides the time between literature and his
amily He is so much in love with his wife
that some Of his friends say that he sees in
her all the fine varieties Of her sex, ami
from her fashions his interesting heroinss,
looking at her from different angles
Edmund Clarence Stedman, who made
love match when mere boy, running away
with the pretty girl who had fascinated
him, has kept up the romance ever since;
and he il now, although comparati vely
young, a grandfather Whatever be writes
his wife hears tir,t and she is, he says, bis
gentlest and yet his most exacting critic.
George William Curtis is so snamored Of
his peaceful and attractive home at Staten
Island that ii Is hard 10 draw him away.
He married the daughter OF Francis Shaw,
who fell at Fort Wagner at the head Of the
first colored regiment raised in the north
A fine, strong, cultured woman, fond of
outdoor life, particularly Of horses. she AMI
aer children have always been the poles OF
his being, the sun 'hine Of his years
THE FAIR SEX.
Harriet Prescott CSpJffori) has written
from her early girlhood, change Of circum-
stances having thrown the support Of the
family mainly upon her. A poet and
enius, she might BE- thought u be one OF
those maynard, emotional, inconstant
creatures who could never possess psr.
manent feeling and who would be constitu.
tionally Incapable Of true wifehood But
as fact isthat she Is domestic 10 the core.
She and her husband, Richard S. Spoffcrd,
went 10 school together, were In love with
one another as girl and boy, and are as
much in love to-day as when they were in
their teens
Mrs Frances Hudson Burnett, the novel;
ist differs from most non-literary wives in
tho circumstance that she is conspicuously--
they migt say foolishly-in love with her
lord. They are as intimate in every
respect as they can be; they have no thought
or feeling that they do not share. They
might be termed a connubial pair Of spoons
The late H H., Mira Helen Hunt, who's
second husband was William s. jackson,
had many OF the traits ascribsd 10 genius,
but Indifference To her husband was not one
OF them. They were very fond Of one an
other, and he was always her last court OF
appeal The same might be said Of Julian
Hawthorne, J. W. DeForsst, Mark Twain,
Clemens, Charley Dudley Warner, or
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