Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-08-04
Men and Women.
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[Pittsburg Commercial Gazettel
As long as men continue to marry. and
women remain as they are there will be
trouble between them. Which is most TO
blame may never be known exactly, but
each will continue to blame the other, and
quote ancient history to sustain them
selves.
Xantippe, the wife of Socrates, is men
toned oftener than the wife of any other
famous man of ancient times, yet she was
far from being the only one that made life
a burden to her husband. The usual term,
lord and master, did not apply to many OF
the men great in history.
For some reason or other men of genius
almost invariably make mess of it when
they marry. Following are some notable
instances of this:
Sir Thomas More's wife scolded him on
the eve of his execution.
Hazlitt's wife cared nothing for his abil-
tiles, and kept him in hot water by her
temper.
Catherine II. of Russia had her husband
assassinated, and from his death to her
own ruled alone.
Milton had trouble with each of his wives
the fault being, perhaps, as much his own
as theirs.
Ben Joason's wife went TO the inn after
him if he staid too long and brought him
home, tongue lashing him all the way.
Boswell's Uxoriana" is a collection Of
his wifes sayings to him, which does no
little credit to her abilities as a scold.
The wife OF Roha1lt, the philosopher,
took her seat at the door of his lecture
room and would not allow poorly dressed
or i'll favored people to enter.
Walter Savage Landor married girl for
her beauty, and after the charm wore off
he found her a shrew. He endured her
tongue for time, then turned over his
property to her and left her.
Dante was married to Gemma Donati, a
woman of stern imperious temper. He
was hectored and bullied day and night
until his exile, which was, in this respect,
for him, fortunate occurrence He
does not mention Gemma in any of his
writings
Xantippe, the wife of Socrates, some
times emptied buckets of slop from win
dows on his head as he entered or left the
house.
Addison's wife, the countess dowager OF
W arwick, would not allow him to go TO
the inn at all unless he sat at the window,
where he was in plain view from her front
room. Every absence from his; post had
to be accounted for.
The illustrious Isabella De Gonzaga after
losing hel husband declined to marry
again. She said that ifher second should
prove good she would be in constant fear
of losing him; if otherwise, in constant fear
of not losing him.
Cicero had a shrew named Terentia, who
made him do as she pleased. He was un-
der great obligations to Clodius, but when
the divorce suit Of Caesar against Pompi-
liza came up for trial Terentia compelled
Cicero to appear against Clodius. Tired OF
Tenentia, Cicero got divorce and married
rich girl named Publica, left her too, and
lived alone until his death.
Count Rumford, the scientist married
Nine. Lavosier, the widow of a philoso-
pher and herself devotee of philosophy.
When she was vexed, which was nearly
all the time, she vented her spleen by
breaking the bottles that contained bis an
atomical specimens, by upsetting his ap-
parratus on the floor, throwing his books
out of the windows and pouring boiling
water on his botanical collections.
John Wesley married widow, MIS-.
Vizelle, who grew tired of his restlessly
laborious life and complained. He paid no
attention, and from complaint she went on
to jealousy, thence to fury. He rebuked
her sternly: 'Do not any longer contend
for mastery, for power, money or praise.
Be content to be private, Insignificant
person. OF what importance is your char
acter to mankind If you were buried
just know, or had never lived, what loss
would it be to the cause of God 2" She
left him, taking with her large number
of his private papers, and he dismissed the
subject by writing in his journal; 81 did
not forsake her; did not dismiss her; 1
shall not call her back"