The evening times., 1898-06-25
MANY MEN, MANY WIVES.
How LOye's Grand Sweet Song At
efecscd some Celebrities.


s-sfecscd some Celebrities.
Nero kicked his VIE. Poppaea. to death.
The domestic relations Of both Thack-
cray and Dickens were unhappy.
Fielding, sthe e.nevelist. married his maid
servant and was miserable.
iMoliere. at the age of forty. married
an actress OF seventeen. and soon separ-
Steele was. happy in both marriages.
and pays high compliments to each wife.
Goethe married an estimable frau
who made him quite content with his
home.
Muton,s wives gave him so much trou-
BILE that he wrote treatise advocating
divorce.
Verdi married young winning a charm
ing Italian girl. who made his home
ideally perfect.
Van Dyke married a lady for her
money. and was disappointed on finding
The married life Of Lord Nelson was
made miserable by his infatuation for
Lady Hamilton.
Abraham'so omarried life was rendered
miserable by the jealousy his wife.
Sarah. had for Hagar.
alexander. and Julius Caesar were both
accustomed to whip their wives on the
slightest provOcatiOn.
Leigh Hunt was happy in his marriage.
though his wife was no cook and a very
poor -housekeeper. --.-.s
The wife Of Burns was as affectionate
as he was lnconstant, and readily forgave
all his shortcomings.
Fausta. the wife OF Constantine the
Great. was so bad that the emperor had
her smothered in a hot bath.
An heroic widow was Alexandra. the
wife of Alexander Janneus. of the Mac
cabean family. After the death of her un-
popular husband she kept the secret until
she had secured the fortresses, then
went to Jerusalem in triumph. mad E
friends with the Pharisees, became Inn
mensely popular with the people, and sue
ceeded quietly to the throne. She retgned
with great splendor for nine years after
| the death of Alexander. e-.t- ---.
Correggto married beauty. wealth and
happiness Several. of his Madonnas have
| the features of his wife.
Rubens was twice married and left por-
| traits of both his wives. with whom he
lived in singular concord.
Ben Jonson had a shrew. who used to
go to the ale room after him. and bring
him home. scolding all the way.
Paulina. Seneca's wife. had her own
veins opened Wnen ne was put 10 uedlN,
but was saved by the doctors.
Jean Paul Richter married to get a
houzekeeper. and secured a good one.
| though jealous OF all his movements.
Lamartine married an English lady
| named Burch, who. learning that he was
| poor. offered to share her fortune with
| him. -. 49, .-... 80.
Moore got along well with his wife. in
spite Of his constant fiirtations. which.
after all. may have been only word deep.
Heine had SO warm regard for his
| wife that he wrote: For eight years
have had a frightful amount of hap
! piness." - .---
Joan Of Naples became a widow by the
| simple but effective process of having her
| husband murdered. 4 woman OF no moral
| worth. but OF magnificent abilities she
governed her country well until over
| thrown by foreign armies sent TO avenge
| her husbands murder. She was defeated,
taken and smothered to death. Her gen.
erosity to men ofHiearning is celebrated by
| both Petrarch and Boccaccio.
| The wife of Grotius shared her hus-
| bands Imprisonment, and finally succeed
ed in smuggling him out of jail in a
trunk. 49, g.. sd. --
| George III. albeit a little henpecked
was a model husband, and his domestic
| life was for king, singularly free from
| contention. - HH
Queen Marianne of Georgia was put tC
| death for mot being willing to marry
! again. Her dominions had been overrur
| by Abbas OF Persia, who took her prison
| er and Immediately fell violently in love
| with her. She refused to become a Mo-
hammedan as preliminary TO the union
and under the .tortures designed to COM
| pei her consent she died.
Cato married a poor girl that she might
| be completely dependent upon him. and
hG
| were an heiress- .s!
Mozart was as happy with his wife as
a man could be whose affections were per
| petually strayirg. but she was forgiving
| and never reminded him of his numerous
| imperfectiOns--St. Louis Globe-Demccrat