The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1890-06-18
.sELr-DENY,No WIVES.
The Devoted Helpmates Of Four Justly
Famous individuals.

The Devoted Helpmates Of Four Justly
Famous Individuals.
Disraeli dedicated one of his novels
''to the most severe Of critics-but q
perfect wife" Once. at a harvest-home
Of his tenants, he spoke of her as ''the
best wife in England" In q speech de-
livered at Edinburgh. he alluded to her
as 'that gracious lady to whom l owe
so much of the happiness and success of
my life" Edmund Burke, on the ami
versary Of his marriage. presented to
Mrs. Burke a beautifully descriptive pa
per. The Idea of Wife," heading tho
manuscript thus: 1.-The Character
leaving her to fill up the blank. He re-
peatedly declared that every care van
ished the moment he entered under his
roof"
Mrs. Disraeli was pretty little wom-
an, a voluble talSer, and much older
than her husband. Mrs. Burke was
spoken of. even by her own sex, as all
that was beautiful and amiable among
women. But it was not beautiful face.
nor refined taste, nor mental culture that
gave these two women their wonderful
influence over the two statesmen. The
secret of their power lay in their
thoughtful and intelligent sympathy.
Once Mrs. Drisraeli rode to the House
OF Commons with her husband. when he
was expected to make a great speech.
On leaving the carriage he crushed her
fingers in closing the door. Without an
exclamation of pain, she babe MIN
''Good-evening." lest he might be so
unnerved as to fail in his speech, and
went to her place in the lady's gall
lery.
Mrs. Burke kept her husbands ac-
counts, regulated his pecuniary transac-
tions, soothed his natural irritation, and
made his home happy. that he might
remain free and plastic from his public
duties.
The wife of Sir William Hamilton.
professor of logic and metaphysics. also
illustrated the devotion of self-deryin%
love. She identified herself with his
work, and by her energy kept him from
yielding to naturally indolent DISPOSE
ton.
During the session of the University,
he wrote his lectures on the night be-
fore the morning he delivered them.
She sat up with him, and copied what
he had illegibly written on rough sheets.
The gray dawn of the morning often
found the devoted amanuensis hard at
work. She was his wise counsellor. and
his playful, amusing friend. lie leaned
upon her, loving and approaching her,
and that was the only reward she cared
to receive.
The late William E. Forster. one OF
the most conscientious and industriou.
of modern English statesmen, married
Jane Arnold. the daughter OF Doctor
Arnold, of Rugby. For doing so ne was
expelled from the Society of Friends,
which did not tolerate mixed marriages.
Many years afterward, when he was
one of her Majesty's Ministers, he said
to a deputatiOn of Quakers, who had
waited upon him, Your people turned
me out of the Society for doing the best
thing l ever did in my life"
His wife was his constant adviser, to
whom he submitted the most difficult
questions, that she might guide him to
the right solution. In his library. he
wrote at one table, and she at another,
for he loved to have her near him. even
when at work on social and political
problems.-Youth's Companion.