The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-28
MADE FAMOUS
BY Marrying Ladies who Enjoy
Reputation.
WHO ARE THEIR HUSBANDS2
Interesting Gossip About the Unknown
Better Halves of Some WeIl-knowu
Women--The Valuable Assistance
Rendered Men by Women.
Copyright 1891. Al rights rcScrveL1
is MARRIAGE FAILURE

j. MARRIAGE a FAILURE
For the Gazette.
However unanimously the whole world
may agree that marriage is 4 failure. no
thoughtful observer can doubt for a moment
that il eXrrts i profound influence upon the
life ana character of all who euIcr into the
matrimonial relation The prOverb says
that man Is what woman makes him, and
the converse of that proposition is equally
true: for woman Is certainly what man
makes her. 1t is has often been asserted
that women are always secondary 10 men;
that without the directing and controlling
influence of The male sex she is like a ship
al sea without rudder or compass when be-
set by heavy gales. and that even those
women who have made 4 brilliant mark in
the world and nave padded their own canoe
Gown the stream of time without once ask
Ing the tSrani man 10 lend Il hand at the
uar-Such women. for example. as loan of
Are Catherine of Russia. Queen Elizabeth
and OuiGa-haye always had some man as
the true source of their separation. While
We may not be prepared 20 fully iudOrse
his extreme view. there nevertheless Gr-
mains the interesting fact that the great
majority Of the women whom the world
calls great have N some period of
their lives been closely asso-
rialed with some man-eithcr father.
brother. lover or huSband-who
I.i~ tNt'lit'l Il powerful ll4lUkt upon llit'll
career How much that is of value in the
writings of George Elliott DO we owe 10 the
long association ol that gifted woman with
George LcwrS. How mayn Of the most sen
suous romantic passages in the novels of
George Sand DO we owe to the influence of
her rhcrami-thr dreamy, spirituelle
Chopin
l.. view Of these considerations ali that
pertains 10 the husbands and close male
friends of famous women becomes froUght
with an interest quite rs strong at that per-
tanning 10 any personal trait or popularity
Of thos" women themselves. On the same
principle that David Coppertied's aunt
Betsy IrotwoOG was constantly telling him
what his uoT-eXistent sister Betsy would
have thought and said and done if she had
ever been born. il may not be considering
TOO crriouSly 10 ask what any of the noted
married women Of our day would have been
If they had never married. and if they had
welded some man other than The present
husband.
The unknown husbands of famous women
are undoubtedly i class of men to whom the
world owes much, tol IN many cases ali
that has been best and modest in the career
and character OF the wife Is directly at
tributab,e 10 The husband, as we shall see
III considering the question of who and
what are the marital partners Of some Of
the best known women of our time.
Probably the best known and really the
best of American writer's of fiction IS Ma
riou Harland, who in private life is Mrs.
Trrhune. Her novels are not plotleSS,
prOSy records Of uuiutcreSting EVERYDAY
events" Is Mr.. ". ID. Howelis tells US all
novels should be. They are not didactic
essays meant to air the pet hobbies of the
writer. They are interesting stories, with
well-couceived plots ski!ifully wrought out
Their characters are real men and women
such rs we all know. Without any laborcd.
sef-evident effort 10
POINT A MORAL AND ADoRN \ TALE"
they lend TO make Us better for having read
Them. for they are always pure, healthful
and helpful.
Marion Harland is the wife of a clergy
man. man OF scholarly attainmentS and
singulariy beautiful Christian character
Though she made her debut rs a novelist
Icing before she knew him-her first story,
Alone, - was published at her fathers eX-
pcnSe and made instantaneous and immense
success after many prominent and pre-
sumably intelligent publishers had refused
i, when she was but eighteen years of age,
yet the high moral tone of her writings
became much more marked after her mar
rage. and is Internationally due in great
measure to the influence of her clerical hus-
band.
1t was on Christmas Eve away back in
the very early tftieS that she plighted her
trotnto Mr.. Ierhune. lie was then singular
~ tall and slender--irrevcrentp persons might
have called him ''lanky" Fortunately for
him, his good wife, unlike most women
of literary ability. had been trained TO be |
model houSekeeper, and was thorough
mistress of every thing that tends to make |
home brightest, best and most attractive |
She was 4 good sock-darner, pie-baker and |
pudding maker as well as good story |
writer. Under the benign influence of |
her faultless cooking Mr.. Terhne's lank |
form soon began to assume that plump and |