The age-herald., 1900-04-05

wait for recognition. She promised, but but he was poor and poet, and love mus waiting is wearisome; before recognition came to the gentle young verse-maker snt forget him as a lover and was married to some one else
 Edward Fitzgerald, the translator oi Omar Khayyams quatrains, was a bacEhe- Tor, and there was romance in his life much like the one which saddened Whit tiers, but there was little else which they had in common.
 The celf6acy of Charles Lamb was full of pathos, for he remained single all his life that he might care for his sister,
 Venerable John Burroughs, naturalist as well as writer, and one of the most charming men, has never married MT. Burroughs was not even a woman hater neither has any one ever surmised that a romance caused his bachelorhood
 The only literary character who is ac- knoWledged tn be a woman hater is Alger- non Charles Swinburne His sentiment ap- pears to De based on the fear that a wo- man of little culture would be dull beyond description as life partner, and the con- Vietion that the clever, well-informed wo- man Is the least attractive of her sex.
 Only one noted Protestant divine has been bachelor. He was Phillips Brooks, who seemingly possessed every quality describ-
  remaining single appears never to have been understood even by those who were closest to him. In glis student days and in ms career as a clergyman he had many Friendships with women, while his passion ate fondness for children was remarked often.
 Tue oachelorhood of Sir Isaac Newton was puzzle to some of his contempora ries out others knew he remained single on account of his mother He thought the world Of her, and her affection for him va e uhoounded; but her maternal love was marred by jealousy, and whenever -ner son thought of marriage or eyineed nassins, 1t.erest in pretty face she wept and wrurls her hands and managed somehow 10 oleck true loves course. He finally told her ne would give up all notions of unar- flage as long she lived
 mat there are corresponding number or noted women of the present day who nave never married is particularly in evil uclce among the celebrates of the stasa When Ada Rehan was in Birminghan, tbo supJect was discussed by number of her irienas' no one of whom could however recall any romance that had ever heen printed about her. The marriages of ac- tors and the attitude of the public toward real romances among the people os tbe stage is touched upon by MT Franklyn Fiee an his series of articles in tbe Iad;es; Home Journal, where he writes that ex
 
 amples Of unmarried actresses among those now conspcuous on the stage are Maude Adams, Viola Allen, Annie Russel. Eleo- nora Duse, Georgia Cayyan, Ada Rehan. jessie Millward and Olga Nethersole. The old Idea that wives and husbands should not be sweethearts in plays is held by some weeded couples, who, therefore play in separate companies Indeed there are quite a number of well-known actresses who are thus parted from their husbands, during the dramatic season, for arts sake. But I think experience has fully proven that 1t Is, after all, a mistake to believe that the effect of mimic courtship is lost when the audience knows that the lovers are in reality husband and wife. The fact is pertinent. as bearing on this question, that the leading actors now extremely pop ular in New York, as opponents of love, those noted as matinee idols of the girls, are we'll known to be husbands. Helena Modjeska, Julia Arthur and Minnie Mad dern Fiske are wives of men who are not actors