The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-06-16
MADAME'S LAST TEST.


coed. But first, you ask why VIC dlsmlss
the Young from our audicncc2 Because
there Il. no ono SO intoierant as n young
pers6n. Talk OF the intolerance Of old
n2sl i Is nothing compared with tho
intolerance Of youth. An old mau has
boon through everything. lIg knows
that at twenty n may DO wise, bril-
liant and tender. But reverse the case.
4 man oil twenty thinks that fifty
means dota=e. A boy goes into conyul-
sions Of laughter il you associate love
and a gray mustacho. lie Is n scorniul
sEeptic II you say that a woman oil TWEEN
ty-tivo c feel and excite tho tender
passion
let tho Young have their little love
affairs. We emilio at them. There is
sap In q young heart, but there is FIRE
in an old ono.
This story Ia about o man and q
woman who loved each othsr-Ehat
el'e Is worth writing about? They
we're no longer Young. For q long
time 1t seemed like friendship. 1t was
platouic love. You don't believe In
that? I do. It ia not common, but it
is possible, when thu woman is an ar
tist aud tho mar n philosopher. Tha.
is THAT these lovers were, Mary Clark
and Julius Mohl. There is o tradition
that Mary used TO spend whole days
copying ia the Louvre. She wore n
scant black silk dress cut square In the
neck, and her irizzled hair fell in 4 tan
slo over her piquant face.
She covered lie, dress with 0 long
black apron, which had two big pockets.
One pocket contained her lunch, the
other held a wreath Of flowers. She ate
the lunch duriu. tho day and in the
evening she rolled up hor apron, put
her wreath atop her head and went to
a brilliant zee ption, such receptions as
we're possible in Paris sixty years ago.
Shs was the gxyesL the hsppiest, the
most popular OF women, and had the
truestloveri ii thu world.
N. Mohl was OF noble family, which
somewhere held an estate, but Tor years
these facts gave nc substantial income
TO the young scion, who chose the
scholarly but unremuneratiye work Of
TRANSMITTING the literature of India. He
had 4 few thousand francs, which no
putin bank. where they drew no inter
est His wi necessities and those Of
his friends for he was charitable TO *
cess) soon reduced this up
Fortunately he was awarded q gov
eminent pension, which in American
money would have been $500. Great
wal his relief OF mind, and rs fortunes
as well a, misfortunes seldom como
singly, O short time after he was ap-
pointed to 4 protessor2Lip at q salary OF
$1,000. What did he do! He took back
his pension papers, saying:r'1 have
plenty now; I DO not need tho pension.
Give it 70 some one else who lie % poor
Us | vaA.p"-
Nothing OF this sort had aver &C.
Cured before. The government OIL.
cials cduld no. credit their senses. 4
man vns found who bad enough. Mira
bile dictu! II. Mohl vas truly q great
man.
It u such q man who can love pa
Hently. It was ten years-it was twice
that Ion. that he had loved Mary
Clark There was the excuse OF never
being rich, besides they saw one an
other daily. Thcy were happy, though
it is true he thought marriage would
make them happier.
~ wish to DO cure" Mary said, and
tested him year alter year.
Perhaps you think her cold.
Thsro ere two kinds OF women. and
Homer hit them of finely IN Helen and
Penelope. Helen ran of with her hus-
bands guest with not q great amoun.
Q! persuasion. Penelope rejected her
~suitors, and was very sloY TO believe
that her husband had returned. You
remember that she tested him thor.
ouqhlv. It Is q matter Of taste as to
which woman reu consider most intsy.
ts.ioc. but Penelope is my choice for
good common sense.
II Mary's mother had lived as long as
her daughter, perhaps the Inter would
have tested her lover forever, but, OF
last, finding herself IN orphan, she said
ayes"
In America il is not the custom to ad.
yertise the ages of bride and groom on
their marriage license, but it is In for.
eign countries, and thus stood the aEcs1I
OF the two:
Julius Mohl. IS; Mary Clark, S."
"Fiity.eighs!" exciaims every womsn
reader. Those younger say: Hope
for Inc yeti" III they arc unmarriedO
and all the ros, agree that the heart
V c-ows old. But this piouant
little bride did not look old, which is
another beuei: OF the artistic temporal
mont. She had soul, intellect, charm
what the French call esprit She was
her husbands delightful companion.
Please remember this saying: nj q
man loves a woman for her looks he
will love her five wears. II he loves her
mind he will love her ten years. II ho
loves her ways he will love her forever"
4 womau's ways don't change. II che
10 charming there is no reason why she
should lack a lover at IS any moro than
n. IS. And, bless you, dear readers, |
am not %invcntlng this story! L is all
true
Tho women who arc coy swcethearts
make the most loving wives. The men
who endure the most rcbutls when
lovers aftesward receive most endear-
mon,s when husbands. 1t lis not STIR
prisinc, therefore. that NJ. Mohl's mar.
rage was n happy union. Such 4 mar
rage aa rciutes all the cynics who ever
sparled. Long, blisstul years succeeded
that late wedding day, and, as thu wife
was the elder, che expected to enjoy to
tho last her husbands devotioa. But It
was otherwise. 4. eighty she vas left
a widow.
vivacIous In ncr grief, as she had
been in her love, shs at first refused to
be couforted. but with he, bright wit,
her next and permanent mood was to
do something 10 express all the love
and admiration she telt Tor her noble