New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-07-29
CAL" he remarked land she would be sure to

canvass for my opponent"
Neither is it necessary that the wife should be
her husbands equal or superior In point OF
intellect In order to prove a helpmate woman
devoid OF brilliancy. when the deficiency
in that respect goes 10 the extent Of downright
stupidity. is oftentimes source OF restfulness
10 a clever husband The great Talleyrand. as
we'll as his contemporary the equally gifted
Prince Metternich were each Of them inclined TO
value rather than TO denounce the intellectual
fangs of their wives. Thus OF Princess Taey
rand IT Is related that one occasion when a
scientist Of the name of NJ. Donon was invited TO
dinner and she had been recommended by her
husband TO glance over the book which their
guest had written and which was in the library,
she read by mistake Defoe's Robinson Crusoe
and during pause at the banquet parayzed
every one present Including her husband, by
gracously inQuiring Of NJ Donon What became
Of your man Friday?' Prince MetterDichs third
wife distinguished herself In an analogous
manner. giving great offence 70 the French AM
bassador Vienna, who. thinking he saw IN
the Princess's remark an insult 10 himself and
70 his sovereign, complained TO the old Prince
The latter excused himself by pointing out 10 the
angry diplomat that although he had married the
Princess. 1t was not he who was responsible 1or
her education
II any additional proof were required that
matrimony IS an advantage rather than MIN
drance to men in public life II would be found In
the instructive II unuttered distrust on the part
OF the people at large for those of their leaders
who have preferred 10 remain single. Ihus the
universally credited bachelorhood OF GreVy was
considered a the last moment as an obstacle 10
his becoming President of the Republic when ne
suddenly solved the difficulty by explaining 70 MS
friends that he had wife in the person or the
estimable lady who had formerly presided over
his kitchen and who the mother OF MS
daughter Aice. NJ Challemel-1acour might nave
been chief ma gistrate OF France to-day instead
OF NJ Casim:r-P ericr, had he zen a married man:
and Sir Charles Dixie would assuredly nave
been Prime Minister Of England at the present
moment had he married ten years ago. Ana II
he is now gradually recovering the political ana
in a minor degree the social. prestige whch ne
forfeited in connection with the Crawford oiVorce
case II is thanks to the charming lady VINO mas
since then linked both her name and her fortune
with his own Lord Rosebery. gifted and clever
as he is would have avoided many unfortunate
lapsi Nngi and mistakes since he has become
Premier had he had by his side woman
possesaed Of the tact and intuition say OF the
nresen: Duchess Of Devonshire. She assurediy
would never have permitted him 10 ofend the
rsugious sentiments OF the middle classes OF
Great Britain BY referring during the course or
n speech in the House Of Lords 10 the assasslna-
ton O, President Carnot 10 the great Welsh
collierv disaster and to the birth or the Duchess
~ works. SON. in the following terms. Il venture
10 think that 80 much Of the mockery ina,
broods over human life never was compressor
into 40 small space" The respectable Briusn
honsehoder is now firmly convinced that LORD
Rosebery considers Providence merely as
mockery.