St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-02-05
Not All Fortunate in the Selection
of Husbands.


The wife of Thomas Carlyle lived
life of abnegation. Welded to man
who, bv reason of an exceedingly nerv-
Gus temperament and shattered health,
was perhaps irresponsible for his cratic
moods, she bore with every whim pa
tienty ana uncOmplainingly, nor was
he inSensible to her worth, and at her
death no woman was ever more sincerely
mourned. In one of his letters to En-
erson after his wife's death he says:
"By the calamity of last April l lost
nv little all in this world, and have no
soul left who can make any corner OF
this world into home for me more.
Bright. heroic, tender, true and noble
was that lost treasure of my heart, who
faithfully accompanied me IN all the
rocky ways and climbingS; am forever
poor without her"
A familiar visitor at the home of Will
lam Cullen Bryant describes the home
life as rarely beautiful. After forty
five wears of sunshine together, the wife
gentle minister living wholly for her
husband, the husband at seventy a
lover still, the darkness fell, and he
was left alone. OF this he wrote: Bit
ter as the separation is, give thanks
that she has been spared to me SO long
and that for nearly half a century [
have had the benefit of her coun-
sci and her example,"
An amusing story is related of Edison,
the inventor. A friend passing by his
laboratory late at night was surprised TO
see it Illuminated. and, entering. found
the inventor so deeply absorbed in eX-
l,n Of
sion.
''Well, Tom" he remarked, sit is
aftet ~ O'Clock; are you going home to-
night"
Twelve O'Clock? BY George! must
go home, sure enough; L was married
this morning"
Notwithstanding this little episode,
Mr.. Edison is said to have been model
husband, and they were most devoted
couple.
Among the men known to fame who
married diScord in noble wife, was
DRYDEN. whose wife welded him solely
for the honor the position would confer
upon her. His thoughts were in the
clouds, while hers were of the earth,
earthly, making it impossible for them
to meet on the same plane. On one &C.
casion she told him that she wished to
be book, that she might be favored
with more of his company. His reply
was: BE an almanac, then, my dear,
that may change you once year."
Tennyson experienced naught but
happiness in his married lite, and in
lines addressed to his wife he says:
Dear. near ana true-no truer Time himself
Can prove you, though he makes you ever
more
Dearer and nearer.
Is there anything this side of heaven
that can be compared to such COM
partnership?
Benjamin Franklin, after forty years
in matrimonial bonds, was able to
testify: I'VE are grown old together,
and, if my wife has any faults am so
used to them that | do not perceive
them" In the midst of toll and pow
erty, his home was refuge, where all
the petty cares and perpleXities of the
DAY were laid aside.
James A. Garfield said of his wife:
"Sometimes it looks little blue before
me, but take courage from her bray
cry"
Would that all mems creed was that
of the Talmud: woman was not made
from mans head, that she should rule
over him. nor from his feet, that she
should be his slave, but from his side,
that she might be near his heart"
Would that all women were worthy of
the creed!