The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-08-01
MEN WHO NEVER MARRIED.

MEN WHO NEVER MARRIED.
Celebrities Who II ave Deliberately
Chosen to Live in Single Blessed.
ness..Some ofthe Reasons Advauc.
ed.
Perhaps the only modern instance of
a mans desistlng from marriage be-
cause Of an openly indicated dislike OF
woman Is Algernon Charles Swinburne.
the poet. Naturally of q very retiring
nature and reserved coldness. he has
pointedly avoided woman wherever he
could, and, says writer in the Boston
Globe. although excessively warm and
faithful in his friendship with men. for
few women has he shown the smallest
admiration or understanding. Any one
of the weaker sex whose mind Is culti-
waited beyond the limits set by old-fash-
ioned prejudice is, in his eyes, the most
unattractive of her kind, and even the
wives of the best friends he rather
avoids, while the one historical woman
of whom ne has written, poor Mary Of
Scotland, has suffered bitter criticism
at his hands. Undoubtedly his sore af-
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much to confirm him in this sour bach
elorhood, as we'll as his preference for
the quiet country life spent chiefly at
his paternal home, near Tenley- on-the-
Tmahes. Here he dwells in somewhat
solitary grandeur, and. though so fear
full and scornful Of women, he was in
his youth pronounced by competent
feminine critics to be attractive enough
with his splendid accomplishments OF
muscle, as we'll as Of mind.
The heir APPARENT to the throne Of
Italy, the Prince of Naples, discour-
aged at his parents selections in pros
pective brides. He has said ne will
marry when he loves but as he avoids
courts and feminine society as much as
possible, the unpleasant. word misu-
gamist has frequently come to the ears
Of his ambitious parents. and the mos:
flattering suggestion Of an alliance with
one of the noblest and most powerful
houses In Europe has been recently set
aside by his wish.
SIR ISAAC NEWTON,
No man felt the maternal influence
in stronger degree than did the scien-
tific bachelor, Sir Isaac Newton. He
was an only child. and a peculiarly
faithful one. and though Mrs. Newton
lived quietly in her country home, and
Sir Isaac q large part Of the time in
London, he obeyed, venerated and
watched over her to the last hour of her
life. Yet with the peculiar maternal
selfishness, disguised under the guise
of devotion, she frowned on every one
of her sons attachments. At every sug-
| gestiOn of marriage she wept and
wrung her hands until ne obedientiy
resigned all thoughts Of domestic bliss,
and after her death found himself too
old and too deeply absorbed In his SCI
entifio studies to change his mode of
life
Charles Baudelaire, the poet, was
governed in nearly the same degree by
his mothers preferences. Though he
was wayward, eccentric and willful to
a most painful extent she remained
his best ideal, his one pure belief
throughout his brief. miserable ca
reer, and when no other voice could pre-
vail her wishes were his law.
In the category Of very jolly bachelors
Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, the great
landscapist, belongs. In his youth,
when, against his fathers wishes. he
chose to paint in place Of shopkeepinS,
he had only an allowance Of $500 to live
on, and upon that, he frankly acknowl-
edged, he could not keep wife, Later,
when his father doubled his income, he
still adhered to his belief that domestic
happiness comes only for good price,
and. as he was 60 years old when his
first picture sold, he felt II was too late
to make the experiment Of welded life.
Then there was Mile Rose, who had
worked in the hair store, Corot had
scorned and with whom, from his first
youth, he had maintained friendship.
But the friendship never seemed %
ripen into warmer feeling, though the
pretty, modest French girl refused all
offers from all other admiring SWANS.
Every day she came and sat awhile in
the spacious studio. with rather visit
full expression in her eyes, and the
handsome, sweet tempered artist was
to her always the NJ. Camille Of her
youth. But Mile. Rose died a spinster
and Corot lived jolly bachelor to the
last.
Charles Lamb very heroically sacri-
feed his matrimonial prospects for the
sake Of his sister Mary The dreams
Of happy life with his first and only
love, Anna, he set aside in order that
he might nurse, amuse and work for
the poor. insane sister, on whom ne Law
ished all the interest and tenderness
which a man would therwise have given
to wife and children.
Edward Fitzgerald, the translator Of
| Omar Khayyam, was the gentlest Of
monogamists, as was Phillips Brooks,
and as is the charming gentleman ard
naturalist, John Burroughs. With mu-
| sic. language and letters. Fitzgerald
used to make himself entirely happy in
| his quiet country retreats. He loved
once and early in his life was disap-
pointed and ever afterwards avoided
the wiles of cupid.
MODERN BACHELORS.
No one was ever found quite bold
| enough to make an investigation into
the case of Bishop Brooks celibacy.
1t was with him evidently a matter of
choice, for no romances are recorded Of
his school or coll ge days, even by men,
bers of his family, though many won n
were his devoted friends, and his love
for children was unbounded.
When some one asked friend of
Samuel J. Tilden why the wealthy
statesman had never married. the
prompt reply was he could never make
up his mind. Though an ardent ad-
miier of women and a stanch believer
in the capacities of the feminine mind,
he wavered, halted, considered and hes
itated over every temptation to enter
the holy bonds, and then retired each
time, uncertain as to the wisdom of the
step.
Walt Whitman clung to his bachelor
hood as he did to his strange opinions,
his curious dress and eccentric habits
as o matter Of principle. and not at all
| from any Indifference to women. His
mother was his admiration and idol