The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-23


Story of SoutAey's Love and Mar
riege-Lord Lytton's Romantic AT
fair.
From the Montreal Gazette.
To count no man happy till he was deaf
was a maxim of the ancients. To count nj
man happy till you have examined into hi
married life NAV also have an element o
practical wisdom in world in which matrl
monial mistakes are so common, and 81
commonly disastrous. Every one can rec
of a list of famous men who have noto-
rfously 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 Beaconsfieh did not place his per-
sonal happiness in love and domestic joys.
He was poor, and his wife made him rich
he was ambitious of politics, and his wife
opened the door to success; he was am
bitious of success in his career, and his wife
sympathized keenly with him, and, at least,
did not hamper him. He was grateful, he
was faithful, he was kind, he was every
case to a woman who really loved him
but, perhaps, his condition of mind was
not, after all, happiness. Writing to his
sister In 1889 he said: las for love, all
my friends who married for love and beauty
are either beating their wives or living
apart from them. This is literally the
case. | may commit many follies in life,
but l never intend to marry for love, which
am sure is a guarantee OF lnfelicity."
He was not tavorably impressed by Mrs.
Lewis when he met her the first time. 81
was introduced, by particular desire, to
Mrs. Wyndhem Lewis, a pretty little
woman, a 1ir5 and a rattle; indeed, gifted
with avoIubility l should think uaequaled
and of which can convey 40 idea. She
told me she liked silent, melau choly mon.
] answered that 4 had no doubt Of it. '"
Yet he was to marry her, and to find in
her society life of success and of high
content, at least. On April IL, 1887, when
he defeated Mr. Gladstone's amendment to
the reform bill, the younger members OF
the party extempoTiZed supper at the
Carlton and begged Of him to join them.
But, as Lady Beaconsield was never tired
of repeating, '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 pre-
pared in anticipation of his triumph.
She was truly proud Of him, and he was
fond of telling her in joke that he had mar
ried her for her money, to which she would
reply: "Ah, but if you had to do it over
again you would do it for love'-a state
ment to which he always smilingly assented.
Indeed, he never lost an opportunity of
eulogizing his wife in public. and on one
occasion ut a harvest home in Hughenden
he spoke Of her as 1.-THE best wife In Eng
land"
IN dealing with the romance of marriage
IL was impossible. of course, to omit the
story OF Lady Sarah Lennox and George
Ill. No doubt at all, if George had had
his own way, he would have made Lady
Sarah his queen. He used to ride past the
house in which she lived every day. AID
during the harvest Lady Sarah was often
to be seen making hay on the lawn in q be-
witchlng custome. 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 court since the accession of
the house of Hanover. paid his respects to
the king. He was very old and almost
blind, but, struck by the beauty of Lady
Sarah, and mistaking her for the queen, he
pumped down on his honest old Jacobite
knees to kiss her handl Lady Sarah, very
much confused, babe him rise, saying II
mn rot the queen, sir" George Selwyn
saia Of the old uobleman: "He was always
partial to pretendersl"-a slap at Lady
Sarah which deserved revenge
Two Of the remarkable men of the last
cent7Ery 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
iowther, to whom he was engaged, and
who subsequently, married some one else.
Lord CORVALLIS made love match, but
his wife was SO much attached to him aud
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long periods that she fell into ianndice
and died few weeks after her husband had
flung Up his comma d and come home to
see her. She directed that a thorn-tree
should be planted over her grave, and that
her name should not be craven upon the
headstone. 1t was after her death that
Lord CORVALLIS returned to service in
America, the end of which was also. for
him, melancholy enough.
We read with good deal of amusement
OF the romantic and passionate attachment
CT young Grote, afterward the historian of
Greece, for Harriet Levin, who is
described N his letters as being. of course.
very lovely, but who, in af err days at least,
was eccentric, strong-featured and mascu-
line.
Among the runaway matches mentioned
isthat of Heary Fox, the first Lord Holland.
He fell in love with Lady Charlotte Lau-
nox, and, being refused by the family, ran
away with the lady. But his subsequent
career fully Justified the rashness of his
action, for he certainly showed that he
knew how to make money and TO help it,
till Charles Fox, his son, cultivated in him
the faculty of giving it away.
John Scott, afterward Lord Nidon, also
ran away with his wife at a very early age.
The window from which Bessie Surtees de
scended into her lovers arms is still pointed
out to every visitor to Newcastle as he
pauses before the old house-the home of
the wealthy banker, her father-in Sandhill
not 800 yards from the great suspension
bridge which spans the Tyne. In his old age
Lord EldoD used to tell how piteous was
their condition.
'On the third morning after our union
our funds were exhausted; we had not a
home to go TO, and we knew not whether
our friends would ever speak to us again.
One of his earliest legal experiences was in
reading, as substitute, the Vinerian law
lecture Il began" he says, without
Knowing single word that was in it, 1t
was upon the statute of young men running
away with madens' Fancy me reading
VITA about $40 boys and young men all
glggllng at the professor. Such tittering
audience no one ever had.n The scanty
means of the young people had one I'M
pleasant effect. They developed in the
pretty young bride habits of thrift which
hardened into extreme parsimony. She
was also very adverse to society: for the
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