The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-28

| imDart her knowledge of household matters
| to other women through the medium of the
press. ard il is therefore to him that Amer
| ican women are indebted for those admir-
able articles on household matters. which
for some Years past Mrs. Terhune has been
contributing to newspapers and periodicals.
The husband of Mrs. Frances Hodgson
Burnett IS Just such man as one would
fancy the authoress Of Little Lord Faun-
tleroy" would marry. He IS large-hearted.
genial man, with an intense fondness for
children, fully equaling in that respect that
famous lecturer and traveller, Citizen
George Francis Train. He is a physician
by profession and Il specialist in diseases
OF the eye. His tender 9entleneSS of man
ncr and his great natural fondnesS for
them have made him peculiarly successful
in cases OF this kind among children. He
has contributed largely TO the literature of
MS profession. ana his opinion on all queS-
tons pertaining 10 his speciality has great
weight among his professional brethren.
He has performed many of the most difficult
and dangerous operations upon the eye
with very great success. and has been
especially fortunate IN obtaining brilliant
results in a great majority of the cases Of
cataract upon which ne has operated. the
operation for cataract being one of the most
important and eXacting upon the eye sur
geOn's skill. as readers OF WillSie Collins
novel Of
''POoR MISS FINCH
well know. His fame as an Oculist has
extended far beyond his Washington home
until he has become faVorably known in
that connection not only throughout our
own country, but even abroad. 1t will
thus be seen that far from being merely
Mrs. Burnett's husband, DR. Burnett has
3 very distinct individuality and a useful
and distinguished career Of his own.
The most vOluminOuS writer of fiction
IL
who for more than thirty years has written
over the signature of Miss NJ. E. Braddon
Not even the elder Dumas can compete with
her in point OF quantity. More than fifty
two novels have poured from her prolific
pen, besides short stories and sketches that
are simply nunberess. Even the seemingly
unparalleled literary activity of Mrs. Oil
phant must pale its Intellectual fire in COM
parisou with that of Miss NJ. E. Braddon.
In private life this wonderfully indus
triOuS writer is the wife of an Irish gentle
Iaan named Maxwell, 4 big. bluff, sandy
haired son Of the Emerald Isle. whose APP
pearance strongly suggests that of Col.
OFipp. the Irish adventurer i'll w. 5. Gil
bert's comedy of Tom Cobb. for which
part Col. MaXweil-fOr, as Mr.. TOots says
of Capt. Cutie. he is a colonel i'll | don't
know exactly what, but its of no cOnSe-
quence-would have u perfect makeup
without changing his dress or appearance
one iOta. l never knew 4 man i'll whom
what are generally regarded as the salient
points of the irish character We're more dis
tinctly noticeable Like Rory O'Aloore he
delights to tease, and his wife is usually the
good natmed victim Of this amiable weak
ness. Mrs. Maxwell has been often ac-
cused by adverse critics of being a constant
imitator of Ouida. As a consequence the
mention of the latter writer's name has AN
effect upon Miss Braddon somewhat similar
90, H.
Il red flag. Cot Maxwell therefore delights
TO praise Ouida in his wife'S hearing and to
loudly lament the fact that other people do
not write like her. tie takes Il special
pleasure in commencing Ouda's personal
charms =. constantly dilating in his rich
Irish brogue upon her ''foiue roWlin' eye
He is remarkable for his many brilliant
Scintillations of keen Irish wit, of which
many amusing anecdotes are related. [
once heard l lady remark TO him that she
thought the Irish had great lack of polish.
Lack Of polish. is it, ma am" he replied.
''shure, if that's thrue, faith, it's not for
the lack of hard knocks
The husband of
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
known to his friends aS Bob
Wilcox is Il bic. athletic looking man with
a brown muStache. Though wholly unable
TO soar with his wife to the lofty heights of
the blue empyreau and TO feel all the par
oNysmS, = thrills, kisses and ''blisseS"
which she has so graphically depicted
in her Poems Of Passion being plain.
everyday manufacturer. he has evidently
eNerted a soothing influence upon Ella and
has considerably restrained the eNuberance
Of her Young feelings. as her writings have
not contained nearly so much of the poe
try of passion" since her marriage as they
did before. Mr.. Wilcox is not at all lite |
rary, but like Mrs. d. Plember in .'Dombey |
! h., hot. u
quite as well.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, who is |
said TO receive larger peculiarly rewards for |
her literary toll than any other female |
writer III America, is married TO young |
clergyman some twenty Years her. junior |
In such cases the husband is not likely TO |
exert any very marked influence upon the !
and career of his wife, as they |
have been thoroughly formed and estab- |
.iShed Years before the marriage takes |
place However brilliant the Rev. Mr.. |
Wards natural abilities may be. he is as |
yet rather too young TO have produced by |
them anTmarked effect upon the age and
time in which he lives.
If we may Judge by the amount OF mari
tai misery among members of the dramatic
profession as ventilated in the newspapers
the conclusion is forced uDOn US that life |
upon the stage is not conducive TO domeS- |
TIC felicity. Actors and actresses seem to
drop into matrimony ana out Of it again |
with as much facility as Mr.. SilaS Wcgg |
dropped into poetry for the entertain
ncnt of his patron. Mr. Noddy Buffin Sev-
prdl of the prominent actresses of our day
nave had at least two or three husbands.
Prominent among these is Maggie Mitch
al, who. though now nearly sixty Years of |
ICE having been born in 1882, still continues
o perSOnate little girls with the same win
ling smile and merry childish voice that
won the hearts of our grandSircS yearly
lalf q century ago. Maggie has been twice
married. Her first venture was Henry l.
Paddock, a scion of wealthy and aristo-
ratio Southern family whose property was
swept away by the civil war
he was keeping Il hat store in Toledo. Ohio,
year or two after the termination of the |
sectional unpleasantncSS. when he won the |
leart of the actress and married her. For
time the course of their love seemed to
'un smooth. Paddock gave up selling hats
md acted as his wife'S business manager |
Then 4 change came DER the spirit of |
heir dream. and in 1889 Il divorce court re-
tOred Miss Mitchell to single bessedneSs |
yhereupon she married her present hUs-
Jand, Charles Abbott, man nearly twenty |
ears younger than herself. Abbott is a
fellow with the figure of an ath-
etc. and his sudden marriage to Miss
Mitchell after comparatively brief ac-
luaintance is n striking illustration of the
ruth of E'ielding's saying that handsome
'ouug men are to middle-aged women rs
LIGHTED GAS TO GUNPOwDER.
Though not evincing any great talent as
IN actor Abbott affords fair support TO his
wife in the not very exacting Juvenile parts
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