The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-01-03
RUSKIN's ROMANCE,

hISAIN'S hOM3NCE.
From the New York Graphic
The Atlantic cable and the breezy Europeau
correspondents of the great newspapers are bringing
John Kuskns name before the public once more
Lately the report has been that he is insane I'm tn
short time ago they we've satisfied to call him &C.
centric, Perhaps he was But then he was rich
and fortune such as he had was like to charity
and 1t covered multitude of eccenricltes
"hen ne began to dabbe in literature he had no
need to write for the money his work would bring
him. He is not as rich today for he has layshei his
wealth on art, on charities thousands of deserv-
ing men and women whom the world never heard
about.
John Ruskln did strangely hayward thing when
he consen'e to get married He did a most errat,c
ana 10 the public most ineXpliCable thing when he
arranged for his divorce
He had accepted some of the lOftiest traiitions
about womanhood that men sometimes read of and
talk about, and he looked for his ideal companion
One night he met her in the drawing room of a
London friend, who, without knowing it. had
brought the young lady to meet the eyes of the
reat writer.
1t was June night, he was thirty-fve, and she
looked like Greek goddess
He was dazzled. She TALL graceful girl of
nineteen, with face and figure us tauless as one
of the statutes of old. No one ever expected Rus
kin to fall in love, and ne did not. She was poor
needed home and comforts, and so they were mar
ried.
lhelr "eoded lie was peaceful, friendly, kindly
to the highest degree, but there Was not spark Of
ahecuon TO tighten ther existence. She admired
the great man she had married, and was grateful
Ior the wealth. ana comfort he shoWered on her.
He worshipped her as he would the marble made
Hfe-like by the ulptors chistl
There nothing human about the life they led
as husband and wife, she was a woman who in her
heart, like all true women, laughed at traditions
that made her sexlove distant worship,
One day Ruskin brought an artist to paint his
Wltes picture Ana the man was Miiiais, and he
was bright cherry, handsome fellow, human
every inch OF him, with great absorbing love for
the beautiful, and willingness to tel Of his love.
He began to paint ihe portrait of the magnificent
With his friends wife,
Womaulike she saw it, and perhaps she was not
full of sorrow and rcpoach 1t was the first tribute
of real manful love than had been laid her feet.
And Ruskin? His wide eyes saw the romance
that was weaving around those two lives and his
heart realized how Ii tie affection he had to lavish
on the woman whom he rad made his wife
How he DID her tn. story Of his pride in her and
the sacrifc. he was to make f her while She Law
prone at his feet Is one of the things which ouly
he or she could tell
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wife he had married, and through all the years or
Mlaiss later u cess and great honor John Ruskin
has been the welcomes est and almost daily visitor
to the man and woman whose lives he so unselfshly
crowned with happiness.
1t is strange story, and the world knows little
about it, and so some men have condemned him as
some women have censured her But the two men
and that one woman, who know best have been
haupv and contented with the change that John
Ruskin's pure uns,fshness brought into heir lives
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