Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-02-20
LOVE AFFRS OF GREAT MEN
RATHER TING TO BE MARRIED
TO AOOL OR A GENIUS.
Some wiz Who Have Helped Their
Hu.ba,s and Whose Married
Iiv We're Happy-Experi-
nee of Many Others.

1.-The I'VE Affairs of Some Famous Men"
is as cd as its title. and both are by the
authoIf How to Be Happy Though Mar
e ried."
+ Itsery trying to be married to a genius
o. aool. says the author of this chatty
bool M~ontesquieu was once at work
whe some one rushed in shouting" Fire."
4 ..Gto my wife" he replied, as he went on
e wrng; these matters belong to her"
O1he other hand Longfellow and Lowell
We excellent husbands. CONTIGUOUS was
zee her before he could work in peace.
l. .yon's most unhappily welded mate once
e .ked him at his study door: DO | disturb
n lou. Byron?" To which he answered: Dam
he Countess Guiccioli, who was his COM
in Italy in later years.
J. Daudet's wife was not only an excellent
housekeeper but a fine literary critic. who
helped Alphonse at his work. Cooper and
wives to begin writing their masterpieces.
Thomas Hardy dropped architecture to
become a novelist at his wife's urging.
Max O'Relrs translator and literary help
er is his English wife.
But these men were not poets. Women
or quits" There was Dante. He had a wife
ana seven children after settling down,
but he never forgot his Beatrice. and poor
either. "Whensoever she appeared before
him. he had no enemy left on earth" Chau-
Ger, VINO nlmSelt married one OF the ladies'
of a queens bedchamber. wrote:
Marriage is such a rabble rout
That those who are out would fain get in
And those who are in would fam get out.
Shakespeare welded a woman much old
er than himself, and their child was born
lacy his second best bed" which may
have had a subtle sentimental meaning,
like Pickwick's chops and tomato sauce.
Millions Married Life.
When Milton was IS he married Mary
Powell. the daughter Of a gay, bustling
house. She didn't enjoy 4 o'clock rising
and long prayers. and in a month ran away
home. Subsequently she came back and
fell on her knees to him-and he used the
scene as the material for Ewes begging
for Adams pardon in his account of the
creation. She died young. Millions second
wife died a year after marriage. In his
third retribution smote him, for she was
me Terror ne mad deserved. before their
marriage he had never seen her. She sur
vived him fifty-three. years and. according
to Johnson, cheated his children.
Early mEef in life 1 he Married Rafrii Ta u%nh IA pfGh zen zen
days before his death he took another
partner to spite his nephew and heir. He
could die married, he said. though he
couldn't live that way.
The author of this record is properly
shocked at Burns, long list of amours,
Ettrick shepherd, espoused a lady much
above his own rank. Coleridge married at
% Sor and had Tys f q lifelong He struggle xg u lie in 5rs sup
in harness. De Quincy; himself q poor
nor Byron could have failed to quarrel
with any wife" Coleridge ate opium.
southey married Coleridge's wife's sister
and got along with her very well until she
turned crazy and died
e Quincy rushed into print to abuse
Wordsworth, who never read the articles.
a friend once quoted. There he's right
cried the poet. Long after one who went
i to k y abe mount esrdsn saw With the he, old MA man walk walk
We're both quite old and he was almost
blind, but they seemed like sweethearts
courting."
Shelley, Landor, Byron.
Shelley. already with one broken-heart
experience, welded at 10 a girl of 16. and
the two children played at light house.
keeping. on buns and things. Later he de-
serted his wife and she drowned herself
in the Serpentine.
Landor's wife mortally offended him in
his own poetry. He was a burly, roaring
fellow with a colossal %conceit. She was
her and their children shamelessly.
Ryron's life was embittered by his early
love affair for Mary Anne Chaworth.. The
Maori, wife of a British vice-consuI in
Athens. Byron didn't love his wife and
she couldn't stand nine executions in the
house for debt in one year, not to speak
of marital misconduct. Sc they parted.
Goethe was a terror After "Grstchen."
Charlotte Buff GotteJ and Ann Muench.
After a little affair with "Lili" Schoene-
Stein, the mother of seven children, but
still able to keep the poet awake three
p be.d even med sas1 her on Hs h1 %ro Charms bnr a before shore
sand letters. Then came Christiane Vulpius.
a fat. gross. drunken creature. whom
R GSet9e and married sFfdr their when marr5h he tT Wss ,;v S.
Death. At the widower "f fell n in
yet with Mme. s~symanoWsRa. az" Goethe ttfss
like Bobby Burns. had a beautiful visage
and, an eye which. it was said. no woman
Heine told his patient; much-enduring
wife to marry after his death. so that at
least one man might mourn him.
cidIy: you can't do without me-"
Every Monday Heine used to beat her.
IN a sort Of Joke, which hurs her feelings
strong as he.
Hood was another poet who delighted in
playing Jokes on his wife. though they were
Of a different kind.
BrOwnins's Love Story.
Most beautiful was Browning's love story.
Elizabeth Barrett was a poet herself. and
in such poor health that her parents OPP
posed her marriage to Browning. Both
believed, but neither practiced. free love,
anG their marriage happiness was perfect.
Browning used sometimes to kiss the pai-
ing stones in front of the door of the church
where he was married. D.. G. Rossetti
buried the MSS. of his first book of verse
in his wife's coffin. Seven years later they
We're dug up and printed:
Steele captured a very beautiful lady by
his art in writing love letters. and when
they We're married he used to get trunk,
while she fought the wolf with cold British
valor and kept upon her husband as tight
rein as she could.
Scott loved a girl to whom at 10 he chanc-
ed to offer his umbrella in a storm. but she
wed another. Probably Scott never quite
| recovered his heart. He married Charlotte