The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-01-05
ROMANCE Of MARRIAGE.
Lord Beaconsdield Welded for Means
to Crafty Ambition and
Was Happy.
The Story of Lady Sarah Lennox
and George the
Third.
Some of the Most Famous Runaway
Matches of History and Their
Various Outcomes.

To count no man happy till he WAS dead
was a maxim of the ancients. To count no
man happy till you have examined into his
married life may also have an element of
practical wisdom in a world in which mat
rimonial mistakes are SO common, and 80
commonly disastrous, says the Montreal
Gazette. Every ono can reel off a list of
famous men who have VIGOROUSLY been un-
happy in domestic life. Among the mar
ried who secured happiness we find at least
a few men Of tbs first rank. DIR. Arnold
leads the list, .ad the picture of him is
one we are all sore or less familiar with
from the writings of Dean Stanley.
Lord B~eaconsield 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 ambi-
tious 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
thing that a gentleman ought to be in such
a case to a woman who really loved him: but
perhaps his condition of mind WAS not .nf-
ter all, happiness. Writing to his sister
in 1888, he said: "As for love- all my
friends who married for love and beauty
are either beating their wives or living
apart from them. | may commit many
follles III life. but | never intend to marry
Tor love, which | am sure is a guarantee OF
infelicity.' He was not favorably inn
pressed by Mrs. Lewis, when he met her
the first time. =! was introduced. by par
tlcular desire, to Mrs. Wyndham Lewis, a
pretty little woman, a firt and a rattle; IN
deed, gifted with a ~volubility | should
think unequaled and of which | can convey
no idea, She told me she liked silent, mel
ancholy men. answered that ] had no
doubt of 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 ~,
1867, when he defeated Mr.. Gladstone's
amendment to the reform bill, the Younger
members of the party e~xtempoiizsd a sup
per at the Carlton and begged OF him TO
join them. But, as Lady Beaconsfeld was
never tired of repeating. .D:zz came ho,ne
to me" And she would add how hc ate
half the raised pie and drank the whole of
the bottle OF champagne which she had
prepared IN anticipation of his tri-
uInph. She was truly proud of him.
and he was fond of telling her in Joke
that he had married her for her money, to
which she would reply: 'Ah, but If Won
bad to do 1t over again you would dc it for
loye5-a sentiment to which he always
smiiingly assented. Indeed, he never lost
an opportunity of euIogizing his wife in
pubic, and on one occasion, at n harvest
home, he spoke of her as the best wife in
England
In dealing with the romance of marriage,
1t was impossible. of course, to omit the
story of Lady Sarah Lennox and George
III. No doubt at all, if George had had his
W way he woul 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 making hay on the lawn in a bewitch,
ing costume. When the king finally mar.
Yied the German princess, Lady Sarah was