The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-02

and did not consider himself rich enough
to have his marriage to his loved one
publicly announced until he could buy
a mansion in which to install his idol.
Then came a turn in his affairs. He
lost everything in speculation, and he
was compelled to devote all his energies
to politics to recover his lost fortune.
He went back to Albany and is a sena-
tor now. His wife went back to the
stage. Then they drifted apart. The
wife read at first with pride, but after
ward with suspicion, of her handsome
husbands successes on the field of de-
bate and in society. Then the iron Of
jealousy entered her soul, and the di-
vorce court was applied to for relief.
Abandonment was the claim the wife
put in, and she obtained her decree.
Neither is happy now. Neither has re-
married.
Now for the reverse side of the medal
Every one remembers how when Multi
millionaire George J. Gould married
beautiful Edith Kingdom people said
she was the luckiest girl alive. She is,
not because she welded a millionaire,
for she was good enough and lovely
enough for any man living, but because
she chose a fine, manly young fellow
with big heart as well as a big brain,
and at his request left the stage and
settled down to home life. She has five
pretty children now and is the happiest
woman in the metropolis, with loyal,
loving husband whom she dotes on and
the cheeriest of homes both in New
York and Lakewood. n. J.
This rule of matrimony which have
suggested will also, I think, apply to
statesmen, politicians and public men
generally as well as to the dramatic
profession. They are on the stage of
public life, much away from home and
much accustomed to study their own
interests and ambitions They should
have for helpmeets women who can aid
them in their chosen paths. A cold,
proud or beautiful 1voman-a society
beauty, mean-is not very apt to be
success in this line. She is rather wont
to exact attention than bestow it. Neg
Iceland most of rising statesmen are
VIGOROUSLY neglectful in a social way
is something she would not brook. Such
a woman would never be happy nor
make her husband happy. The hearth
in such a home never burns cheerily.
such a case have in mind. A great,
handsome, almost gOdlike senator from
New York and his cold, lovely wife are
the principal actors. The public prints
said beautiful woman came in between
them early in life, and the home was
made desolate. Friends blamed both,
though neither spoke a word. He was
imperious, loved to wander from his
freside. She was lovely. but freezing,
and home had no enjoyment for him.
Both are now dead.
In Maine was the home of another
great man That was the home Of
homes. Husband and wife had over
towering love for and confidence in each
other. They were compatible in every
way, and that home was heaven.
1t should be thus in every walk of
life. There should be mutual, absolute
trust as well as affinity between man
and wife. A woman should marry q
man she can look up to and respect and
thus feel that sense of protection every
feminine nature Graves for, and the
man select the woman who, his heart
tells him, yearns for his protecting arm !;
to whom he is a shield, not a menace.