St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-12
ROMANCE OF MARRIAGE.
Great Hen who Hated or Loved Their
Wives.
SoUTHEY BORROWS A RING.
The Thorn Tree Planted by Request
on Pretty Lady CORVALLIS
Grave.

count no man happy till you have exam
ined into his married life may also have
an element of practical wisdom in
world in which matrimonial mistakes
are so common, and so commonly dis
astrous. Every one can reel Off 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 IA
miliar with from the writings of Dean
Stanley.
Lord Beaconsield did not place his
personal happiness in love and domestic
Joys. He was poor aud his wife made
him rich; lie was ambitious of politics
and his wife opened the door to sue
cess; he was ambitious of success in his
career, and his wife sympathiZed keenly
with him. He was grateful, he was
faithful, he was kind, he was every
thing that a gentleman ought TO be in
such a case to woman who really
loved him; bnt perhaps his condition of
mind was not, after all, happiness.
Writing to his sister In 1889 he said:
"As 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 | never intend to
marry for love, which | am sure is
guarantee OF infelicity." He was not
favorably impressed by Mrs. Lewis
when he met her for the first time. ~
was introduced, by particular desire, to
Mrs. Wyndham Lewis, pretty little
woman, a flirt and rattle; indeed,
gifted with volubility i should think
no idea. She told me she liked silent,
melancholy men! | answered that i
had no doubtsof it," Yet he was to
marry her. and to find in her society a
life of success and OF high content, at
least. On April IL, 1867. when he de-
feated Mr.. Gladstone's amendment to
the reform bill, the younger members of
the party eXtemporiZed a supper at the
Carlton and begged of him to join them.
But as Lady Beacons6eld 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 prepared in anticipation of his tri-
umph. She was truly proud CT him;
and he was fond of telling her in joke
tudt uC Huu uldIIlcU NeI lOI HCE iuOucN,
to which she would reply: "Ah, but
if you had to do it over again YOU would
do it for love"-a statement to which
he always smiliDgly assented. Indeed
he never lost an opportunity of eulogiz-
ing his wife in public, and on one oc-
caSiOn at harvest home at Hughenden
he spoke of her as 1.-The best wife in
England"
In dealing with the romance of mar
rage it 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, and during the harvest
Lady Sarah was often to be seen max
ing hay on the lawn in bewitching
costume. When the king finally mar
ried the German princess, Lady Sarah
was one of the bridesmaids. On this
occasion an old nobleman, who had not
been to 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 hand!
Lady Sarah, very much confused babe
him rise, saying: Il am not the queen,
slr." George Selwyn said Of the old
nobleman: He was always partial to
pretenders." slap at Lady Sarah
which deserved 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 en-
gagged, ana who subsequently married
some one else.
Lord CORVALLIS made lOve-match,
but his wife was SO much attached to him
and so grief-Stricken at his absence dur
ing such long periods, that she fell intoa
jaundice and died few weeks after her
husband had flung up his command and
come home to see her. She directed
that thorn tree 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 amuse-
ment of the romantic and passionate
attachment of young Grote, afterwards
the historian of Greece. for Harriet
Levin, who is described in his letters as
being. of course, very lovely, but who,
In after days at least, was eccentric.
strong featured and masculine.
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Among the runaway matches men,
toned is that of Henry Fox, the first
Lord Holland. He fell in love with
Lady Charlotte LennoX, and, being re-
fused 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 keep it, till
charles Fox. his son, cultivated in him
the faculty of giving it away. John
Scott, afterwards Lord Eldon, also ran
away with his wife at very early age.
1.-The window from which Bessie Sur
tees descended into her lovers arms is
still pointed out to every visitor to New
castle as he pauses before the old house
the home of the wealthy banker, her
father. in Sandhill, not 500
yards from the great suspension
bridge which spans the Tyne"
In his old age Lord Eldon
used to tell how piteous was their
condition. son the third morning after
the union our funds were exhausted,
we had not home to go to, and we
kueW uOI WueIner our Irl60QS would
ever speak to u.s." One of his earliest
legal experiences was in reading, as
substitute, the Venitian law lecture.
II began" he says, without knowing a
single word that was i'll it. 1t was upon
the statute OF young men running
away with maidens.' Fancy me read
ing with about 40 boys and young men
all giggling at the professor. Such a
tltterlng audience no one ever had."
The scanty means of the young people
had one unpleasant effect. they devel-
oped i'll the pretty young bride habits of
thrift which hardened into extreme par
simony. She was also very averse to
society, for the runaway marriage made
her delicately sensitive about society in
the beginning, and at last it became
distasteful to her. Curiously enough,
their eldest daughter married without
the COILS ent Of herparents.
The list of the "unhappily married.
Is large and brilliant. Itincludes Will
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