Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-24

good natured victim of this amiable weak
ness. Mrs. Maxwell has been often ac-
cused by adverse critics of being constant
imitator of Ouida. AS consequence the
mention of the latter writer's name has an
effect upon Miss Braddon somewhat similar
to that produced on a bull by the display of
a red flag. Col. 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. He takes q special
pleasure in commencing Ouida's personal
charms (O, constantly dilating in his rich
Irish brogue upon her '.foine rowlin' eye"
He is remarkable for his many brilliant
scintillations of keen Irish wit, of which
many amusing anecdotes are related. |
once heard 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,
commonly known to his friends as Bob
Wilcox is big, athletic looking man with
a brown mustache. Though wholly unable
to soar with his wife to the lofty heights of
the blue empyrean and to feel all the par.
oXysms, +" thrills, kisses" and ''blisseso
which she has so graphically depicted
in her Poems of Passion" being plain,
everyday manufacturer, he has evidently
exerted soothing influence upon Ella and
has considerably restrained the eXuberance
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
and Son." he pretends TO be, and that does
quite as well.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, who is
said to receive larger peculiarly rewards for
her literary toll than any other female
writer in America, is married to a young
clergyman some twenty years her junior.
In such cases the husband is not likely to
exert any very marked influence upon the
character and career of his wife, as they
have been thoroughly formed ard estab-
lished 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 any marked 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 and out of it again
with as much facility as Mr.. Silas Wegg
dropped into poetry" for the entertain
ment of his patron, Mr.. Noddy Buffin. Sew
eral of the prominent actresses of our day
have had at least two or three husbands.
Prominent among these is Maggie Mitch
ell, who, though now nearly sixty years of
age, having been born in 1892, still continues
to personate little girls with the same win
ming smile and merry childish voice that
won the hearts of our grandSireS nearly
half a century ago. Maggie has been twice
married. Her first venture was Henry I.
Paddock, scion of a wealthy and aristo-
cratic Southern family whose property was
completely swept away by the civil war.
He was keeping 4 hat store in Toledo, Ohio,
Il year or two after the termination of the
sectional unpleaSantneSS, when he won the
heart of the actress and married her. For
a time the course of their love seemed to
run smooth. Paddock gave up selling hats
and acted as his wife's business manager.
Then a change came DER the spirit of
their dream, and in 1889 divorce court re-
stored Miss Mitchell to single blessedness,
whereupon she married her present hus-
band, Charles Abbott, man nearly twenty
years younger than herself. Abbott is a
handsome fellow with the figure of an ath-
lete, and his sudden marriage to Miss
Mitchell after comparatively brief ac-
quaintance is striking illustration of the
truth of Eielding's saying that handsome
young men are to middle-aged women as
LIGHTED GAS TO GUNPowDER.
Though not eVincing any great talent as
an actor Abbott affords fair support to his
wife in the not very exacting juvenile parts
of the plays which make up her repertoire.
That Juno like woman, Fanny Daven-
port, like Maggie Mitchell, is now rejoicing
in her second husband. Her first husband
was Ed Price, handsome young stock ac-
tor, whom she engaged as her leading juve-
nile man of her company in the season of
1S17-1S, and who obtained Il divorce from
his first wife, pretty little soubrette
named Katie Baker, in order that he might
marry Miss Davenport With the latter
lady he lived in seeming content for several
years, but in the season of 1SSS-S9 she OBJ
tanned a divorce from him in order to marry
her leading man Melbourne Mcdowell
very pleasant, handsome man, younger than
herself, and an actor of much greater abil-
ity than her first husband.
+. c. Herriott, the husband of Clara
Morris, was merchant in New York at
the time of his marriage, and gave up his
ayocation to become his wife's business
manager He is somewhat cold and
reserved in manner. but has kind and
generous heart that endears him greatly to
all who know him.
Margaret Mather's husband is 4 Byronic
looking German violinist with long black
hair worn in u high pompadour. His name
is Emil Haberlsorn and he leads the orches-
ira at the Duquesne theater in Pittsburg.
Miss Matner has oeen separated from him
for some time past and is now seeking
divorce.
GEoFFREY WILLIsToN CHRISTINE.