San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-08-01
The Daily Eight.
TUESDAY, AUGUST l, 1898.
MIsERIEs OF MATRIMoNY.

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Sir Thomas MOOre's wife scOlded
him on the eve of his execution.
Moliere, at the age of 40, married
an actress aged II, who soon ran
away from him.
Hazlitt's wife cared nothing for
his abilities, and kept him in hot
water by her temper.
Milton had trouble with each of
his wives, the fault being perhaps
as much his own as theirs.
Coleridge left his wife and child
rem without apology or farewell,
and never would see them again.
Catherine II. of Russia had her
husband assassinated, and from
his death to her own ruled alone.
Napoleon often swOre at Jose
phine, and when she cried told her
to hush, at makes your nose red"
Shelley married an innkeeper's
daughter who proved uncOngenial.
He left her, and she committed
suicide.
Ben JohnsOn's wife went to the
inn after him if he stayed too
long, and brought him home,
tongue-lashing him all the way.
Boswell's "Uxoriana" is a col
lection of his wife's sayings to him,
which does no little credit to her
abilities as scOld.
Alexander the Great was accus-
toned to beat his wives with the |
fiat of his sword whenever they
talked back at him.
Cervantes drew picture of his
own wife in the "Mistress House
keeper for the Devil" whom San
cho Panza abused so bitterly.
Zantippe, the wife of Socrates, |
sometimes emptied buckets of |
slop from the windows on his head !
as he entered or left the house.
The wife of Rohault, the philoso-
pher, took her seat at the door of
his lecture room and would not al
low poorly dressed or ill favored
people to enter.
DR.. Johnson said mo man in his
senses, if he could get a young girl,
would marry a widow" He him
self married a widow many years
his senior.
Dryden and his wife, Lady Eliza
beth Howard, lived in a constant |
broil. She was clever and he was
sarcastic, so that their quarrels
were very animated.
Hadrian, one of the best Roman
emperors, was married to Julia
Sabina, Trajan's niece, but neglect
ed her to such an extent that she
went mad and killed herself.
Charles 1. of England was ruined
by his marriage, for his French
queen persuaded him to attempt
the French system of government
that ended in his downfall.
The Duke of Marlborough and
the famous Sarah Jennings fought
like Kilkenny cats. He often
threatened to hOrse-whip her, and
she as often vowed she would leave
him.
When asked for his married ex-
perience, La Bruyere replied "Few
wives are so perfect that they do
not give their husbands cause. at
least once day, to repent of mat
rimony."
Albert Durer's wife was stingy,
and kept him at work day and
night, for fear they would starve.
His biography says: "She torment
ed him until he dried up, like a
bundle of straw"
Walter Savage LandOr married
a 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 prop-
erty to her and left her.
Count Mirabeau, the father of the
French revOlutiOnist, got along so
pleasantly at home that during his
married life he took out no less
than fifty-two lettres de cachet
against his wife and her people.
Jean Paul Richter's wife was
jealous, and was constantly on the
watch to catch him in some flirta-
ton. She generally succeeded, and
when she did always threatened to
leave him. He told her to go, and
she never did.
Philip l. of France fell out with
the queen, turned her out of doors
and married the wife of a noble
man, giving the unique reason, 81
like her better than I do my wife
and can provide for her better than
her husband can"