Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-11-23
THE ROMANCE OF MARRIAGE.
Some Conspicuous Examples and the Var
rious Outcomes of Them.
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To count no man happy till he was
dead was maxim of the ancientS. To
count no man happy till you examine
/ into his married life may also have an
element of practical wisdom in Il world
| i'm which matrimonial mistakes are so
common. and so commonly disastrous.
Every one can reel off a list of famous
men who have VIGOROUSLY been unhappy
in domestic life. Among the married
who secured happiness we find at least
few men of the first rank. DR.. Arnold
leads the list and the picture of him is
one We are all more or less familiar
with from the writings of Dean Stanley.
Lord BeaconShcld did not place his
personal happiness in love and domestic
Joys. lie was poor, and his wife made
him rich; he was ambitious of politics.
and his wife opened the door to success;
he was ambitious of his success in his
career. and his wife Sympathized keenly
with him. and al least did not hamper
him. He was grateful, he was faithful,
he was kind. he was everything that a
gentleman ought TO be i'm such Il case 10
a woman who really loved him; but per-
I hapS his condition of mind was not, az
ter all, happiness. Writing to his sis
ter i'm 1899, he said: As for love all
my friends who married for love and
beauty are either beating their wives or
| living apart from them. | may commit
many follicS in life, but never intend to
marry for love, which | am sure is Il
guarantee of infelicity.'
| IL, ,,-ae NOT faVprp hlN- sod nv
Mrs. Lewis when he met her the first
time. Il was introduced, by particular
desire. TO Mrs. Wyndham Lewis, a
pretty little woman, Il flirt and Il rattle;
indeed. gifted with volubility should
think unequalled and of which | can
convey no idea. She told me she liked
silent. melancholy men. | answered
that had no doubt of it," Yet he was
to marry her. and to find in her society
life OF success and of high content. N
least. On April -, 1867, when he de-
| fcated Mr.. GladStOnc'S amendment To
the Reform bill, the younger members
of the party eXtemporized supper at the
Carlton and begged of him To join them.
I But. as Lady BeaconSiield was never
tired of repeatinging. "Dizz came home
To me-" And she would add how he ate
half the raised pie and drank the whole
of the bottle of champagne which she
had prepared in anticipation of his tri-
Iumph. She was truly proud of him,
and he was fond of telling her in joke
that he had married her for her money,
to which She would reply: "Ah, but if
YOU had to do it over again, YOU would
I zen. NJ n W Al Al
ALWAYS smilingly aSScnted. Indeed. he
never lost an opportunity of eulogizing
/ his wife in public, and on one occasion,
at a harvest home, he spoke of her As
1.-THE best wife in England"
In dealing with the romance of mar
riace. il was impossible, of course, To
omit the story of Lady Sarah Lennon
and George III. No doubt at all, if
George had had his his own way, he
wonld have made Lady Sarah his Queen.
lie used to ride past the house in which
she lived every day, aud during the har'
vest Lady Sarah was often to be seen
making hay on the lawn in bewitch-
ing costume. When the King finally
married the German Princess, Lady
Sarah was one of the bridesmaids. On
this occasion an old nObleman. who had
not been in the court since the acceS-
sion of the HanoverS, paid his respects to
the King. He was very old, almost
blind: but. struck by the beauty of Lady
Sarah. and installing her for the Queen,
he pumped down on his honest old
Jacobite knees to kiss her hand. Lady
Sarah, very much confused, babe him
rise. saying, Il am not the Queen, sir.
George Selwyn said of the old noble
man:
He was always partial TO pretend
erS''-a slap at Lady Sarah which de-
served revenge.
Two of the remarkable men of the
last century were unfortunate in their
love affairs. Gen. Wolfe was rejected in
his first love affair, and, as every one
knows, he was killed before he married
Miss Lowther, to whom he was engaged,
who subsequently married some one
else.
Lord CORVALLIS made love match,