The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-01-30

Shelley's letters can forget her pathetic
walling over her dead husba d-soul of
her very soul She yearned for him and
his cOmpanionship every hour OF her life;
and the only comfort that came TO her IN
her de,olation was that she had made HIM
happy.
Wordsworth had most congenial and
loving wife, who was "phanLom OF de-
light" to him. Thomas Haynes Bayly had
a wife who bestowed complete happiness
upon the poet, and to whom he wrote SON
net on her birthday every year. Barry
Cornwall had a most congenial wife. 1t
was said of him that he was willing to shut
out the whole world if he could have her
beside him. Lamar Blanchard's wife was
so necessary to his happiness that he would
not live without her, and killed him
self. Both Lamartine and John Stuart Mill
had wives who were perfectly congenial.
All of these men were fortunate III their
choice.
What picture Klopstock's wife draws of
the sympathy she gave her husband in his
pursuits II letter to Richardson SIZE
| says: ut will be delightful occupation
for me to make YOU more acquainted with
my husbands poem. Nobody can do it
better than /, who am always present at the
birth of the young verses. We are always
IN the same room. with my little work,
still, only regarding my husbands sweet
face, which Is so venerable at that time with
tears of devotion and all the solemnlty of
the subject, my husband reading me his
young verses and suffering my criticisms"
LORD Beaconsfeld's wife made him very
happy. He dedicated his novel, "Sibyl,n to
her in the most appreciative words. He
says: Il would describe these volumes TO
0 o whose noble spirit and gentle nature
ever prompt her to sympathize with the
suffering; to one whose sweet voice has
often encouraged and whose taste and
judgment have guided over these pages,
| the most severe OF critics, but a perfect
wife" Though she was so much older than
her husband, his happiness justified his
choice.
Dr. Johnson's wife rendered him very
happy, and he never ceased TO miss her and
to mourn her In some Of her books he
wrote: This is dear LeUty'5 book"
Lover ha two wives, each of whom in
been said, helped him up the steep, aud
cheered am on the way; the second COM
forted and consoled him in his decline.
S. c. Hall wrote a letter to his wife on
her every birthday. In the last letter he
wrote before she died. he says: you have
been to me guide, q counselor, a COM
TO ter, friend a wife-ever true, faithful,
fond, devoted; my helper in many ways,
my encourager and stimulator in all that
WAS right, the same CONSIDER in sunshine
and in storm; lessening every trouble, aug
menti g every pleasure What crown Of
| rejoicing such letter must have proved to
| her
Goodwin testides 20 his happiness when
married to Mary WollstOnecraft GliZot
and his wife were very happily married; SO
were William a d Mary hewitt and Mr..
and Mrs. Browning
There are more beads than we can tell in
this rosary of happiness; more gentle spirits
ministering to the welfare of genius than
there are unkind, unsympathetIc souls tor
menting. All depends on the choice. If
we pluck a nettle we must expect to be
stung. There are some women who are more
kenny alive to thu merits Of a cook book
than they arr to the most splendid flighti of
poetry, and these are not the women for
poets to marry.