The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-03-03
THE WIVES OF CELEBRITIES.
What Some Famous Men Have Said About
Their Better Halves.

Their Better Halves.
The wife of Thomas Carlyle lived a
life Of abnegation. Welded to man
who, by reason of an exceedingly nerv-
Gus temperament and shattered health,
was perhaps irresponsible for his erratic
moods, she bore with every whim pa
tiently and uncomplainingly, nor was
he insensible to her worth, and at her
death no woman was ever more sincere
ly mourned. In one of his letters to
Emerson after his wife's death he says:
by the calamity of last April lost
my 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; l am
forever poor without her."
A familiar visitor at the home of
William Cullen Bryant describes the
home life as rarely beautiful After
forty-five years of sunshine together
the wife, a gentle minister, living
wholly for her husband, the husband
at seventy lover still, the darkness
fell, and he was left alone OF this he
wrote: Bitter as the separation is, l
give thanks that she has been spared
to me so long, and that for nearly
half century l have had the benefit of
her counsel and her example"
An amusing story is related Of Edi-
son, the inventor. A friend passing by
his laboratory late at night was sur
prised to see it brilliantly illuminated,
and, entering, found the inventor SO
deeply absorbed in experiments as to
be unconscious of intrusion.
'Well, Tom" he remarked, cit is
after twelve o'clock; are you going
home to-night?"
Twelve o'clock? By Georgel 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 a most devoted
couple.
Among the men known 20 fame who
married discord in a noble wife" was
Dryden, whose wife welded him solely
for the honor the position would confer
upon her. Their fate was not happy
one. His thoughts were in 'the clouds,
while hers were of the earth, earthly,
making it impossible for them1to meet
on the same plane. On one occasion
she told him that she wished to be a
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 life, and in
lines addressed to his wife says:
Dear, near. and true-no trusr Time himself
Can prove you, though he makes you evermore
Dearer and nearer.
Is there anything this side Heaven
that can be compared to such compan-
ionship.
Benjamin Franklin, after forty years
in matrimonial bonds, was able to tes-
tifv: eve are grown old together, and
if my wife has any faults am SO used
to them that I do not perceive them"
In the midst of toll and poverty his
home was refuge, where all the petty
cares and perplexities Of the day wero
laid aside.
James A. Garfield said of his wife:
Sometimes it looks little blue before
me, but l 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
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that she might be near his heart"
Would that ell women were worthy Of
the creedl-Chicago Times.