Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-08-17
LOVE STORIES.
Prettiest of the Century Told OF
Great Men.

1t says much for the essential hui
mainly of love that two of the most
delightful love stories of the century
are told of such grim warriors as Bis
marck and Garibaldi, whom even their
most intimate friends would not light
ly have accused of sentiment. It
says much also for the dominion OF
love" that both these men, who never
acknowledged defeat in arms, were
yanquished by single glance from a
pair of beautiful eyes
Garibaldi's first view of the woman
she was only a very young and very
beautiful girl then--was through a
telescope from the deck of the
Itanarica, as he sailed into the laguna
Of st. Catherine, in Brazil. There
must have been a powerful fascination
in what he saw. for, putting down his
glass, he gave orders that he should be
rowed ashore forthwith. He spent
hours in trying to find the house in
which he had seen this vision OF
beauty, but all in vain, and he was on
the roint of ret ming defeated to his
ship when he net an acquaintance and
accepted his invitation to drink coffee
at his house.
BY some curious freak of fate the
first person to greet him was the girl
whose beauty, seen from afar, had con-
quered him, and, in his own words:
I'VE both remained in an ecstatic ST.
lenee, gazing at each other like two
persons who do not meet for the first
time, and who seek in each others
lineaments something which shall re-
new remembrance" At last he greet
ed her, as by some overpowering COM
pulsion. with the words, "You must be
mine" and with these words, as he
afterward often said, Il had tied a
knot which only death could break"
Bismarck's fate was equally sudden
and unexpected. 1t was at wedding
that the young army student met his
future wife, and he was so conquered
by her charms that the very same
evening he wrote to her parents de-
handing her hand
The parents knew little of the i'm
pulsive young lover, and less to his ad-
vantage. for those were the days of his
hot-blooded youth, but they invited
him to visit them, so that they might
learn more Of him. When Bismarck
rode up daughter and parents were
awaiting him on the threshold, prepar-
ed (the parents, at least) to receive
him with cold courtesy.
But Bismarck's plan of campaign
did not admit of formality. On dis
mounting he sprang up the steps
threw his arms around the fraulein's
neck and gave her a series of hearty
kisses. What could the parents do with
such a warm and unconventional lover
but accept him as a son-in-law? And
this they did, to his lasting happiness
There are few more pathetically
beautiful love stories thar that OF NJ
Bouguereau, the great French artist
Bouguereau had lost his first wife
and was living with his mother, when
he was induced to take as his pupil
winsome and highly gifted young
American girl. 1t was not long before
the master became the slave and the
pupil the queen OF his affections
Bouguereau's mother. however, was
ayerse to this second love match, and
as her consent was necessary to mar
riage the lovers had TO bide their time
with what patience they could Years
passed. and the lovers watched each
other grow old but their love remained
always young, Their studios adiolned
each other and every day they met over
their common art, For twenty long
years they were thus kept apart al
though so tantallzingly near. and
when at last the mother died, and
they were free TO become one, youth
had long gone from them. and white
hair had taken the place OF brown
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