The Savannah morning news., 1900-09-12
OF CLEVER MEN
APT TO MAKE A MIDDLE
or MATRIMONY.

Mass of Evidence Sufficient Co
wake Young women Ftght shy of
talented PARTNERS.
From the Baltimore Sun.
wonder Il when a woman boasts Of
t- husbands intellect and brilliant at
ti.rments she realized that IN so doing
..e was admitting herself wax. com
place or silly. she would continue to
f5rm this SURPRISING act or humility
ls column L. not rude enough or bold
ugh 20 assert from its own obserya-
f.n that the wives Of it's distinguished
.uaintances have these charact, rlstics
tli after making historical Investigations
uuan the marriages OF clever men Il is
Inclined to think that modest soul in
decd must be hers who win boas, OF her
tp.uses mind For with light from the
ya.i one must conclude that. OF all men.
m.n Of ability are least ntted 20 choose
d wife for themselves and that a clever
mn is pretty apt to make a muddle Of
81 trimony.
10 begin with the great soldiers and
, iomats: Justinian out OF the whole
TO NUnrt ANrNuufts tttniN ~ AAI-
aaIct OF Naioia 10 whom ne WIGS indif-
f.ant. ana after divorclng her. stout
.auy. ford Marie de Medici. whom he
pissed. William the Silent proved that
Pc turnity Is a fascinating trait 10 wo-
men, for he married four times His first
wife was a stupid German OF whom he
tired. h. divorced his third. a frivolous
ps-son. who offended him By putting his
llrs words IN a bottle ana setting them
Cn tho mantelpiece. and his fourth was
ady whose chicf charm consisted In
me fact that he had never seen her tin
slt had become his bride Napoleons
h-- wife was selfish. extravagant and
iu their early married life. coquette
8rd cold TO his impetuous arior Having
arated from her. h. married Marie
Louise. a calculating woman without
hrlrt and untrue when his fortunes de-
'erted him. The provoking but unexcep-
1rahle Marcus Aureius married a pref
fF fool. the great Marlborough a terma-
CANT who enforced her commands by the
application Of her hand 90 the back Of
mr. ear A vulgar adventures
WHO charmed away Lord Mel
zoo from the mediocre wife who had
90 power to hold him. Frederick the
Great a dun housfrau. Peter the Great
an Ignorant and brutal peasant. Henry
VIII married two sensible women out %
six. one OF whom was really clever for
she succeeded In OUTLYING him William
7 Emperor Of Germany had for a wife
o. b'got and a meddlsr In HIS political
affairs. Talleyrand deliberately selected
ga imhecile and Prince Metternich a wo-
man who never believed IN him
Nor can we clear up the mystery Of
their lack Of judgment in the choice Of
their wives by saying that genus also
HH| ffrsEs a. Ton To- hu 81
friends or counselors II any one % The
clever men named had used the good sense
IN matrimony they displayed in the choice
OF advisers marriage would not have held
The element Of chance. Justinian's coun-
selors were Narses and Belisarius. Henry
~. as distasteful as was the stern and
urrelentlng Suliy 20 that pleasure-ioving
monarch. shaped his policy according 10
bis wise dictatlon. Napoleon's captains
we're Ney. Junot. Murat. Jourdan, Moreau
ana a score more OF rcsourceful men.
Henry VIII dlscerned the capabilities OF
Wolsey. Cranmer Cecil and Russell Tn
DER Bismarck william welded a number
o. discordant petty sovereignties into one
ereat empire. Tailcyrsnd. who deceived
OIL hts masters. chose and betrayed them
With unerrlnE perspicacity. Weakness or
error Of judgment in these men was only
disrayed Ia affairs of the heart.
Literary Men Not Exceptions.
Nor in the matter OF the selection OF
wife have literary men succeeded better.
Ciccro. after living with Terentia of and
on for twenty years. relieved. "a Ia true hy
the famous voyages 90 Sicily. got d.
Norce from that lady. ostensibly because
she nuarreled with her sister-in-law. but
IN reality because she was DUH. The quar-
rcl might have been provoked. but the
dullness was an original possession. which
in his youthful ardor Of courtship he call
"a Innocence He then al ~ married his
wife's ward whose gayety. after matrimo-
n.y. suddenly became frivolity and earned
her. too a speedy separation, Cato's self
placement in making his friend a present
OF his wife because the former took
flncy 10 her while Il displays dispose
ton 90 ohlige. creates lurking suspicion
that the philosopher was ennuied. Dante
served the Iong-suffering Comma as no
doubt he would have served Beatrice had
De- gotten her He moved her from Flor
rnce 10 Ferrara and from Ferrara 20 Ven
lee and from Venice 20 Padua ana then
TO Ravenna, In the meantime commem
Grating his misery In strains that have
wraug sensitive hearts for four centuries.
Anne Hathaway was weak and frivolous.
and Mary Powell was divorced under a
similar indictment.
fasriuating merriment develops into this
li-e beneath the scowls of a brilliant nus
band Addison was wretched with his
Countess OF Warwick. whom long inu-
macy before marriage might have taught
him to know. Hazlett did not profess 20
like his first wife at any time. and nnaiiy
to her great satisfaction left her. Ana
as turn about Is fair play the siufy WIDOW
whom he made his second choice quilted
him al the end OF a twelvemonth Cna-
tenubriand frankly hated his spouse ana
sunered himself to see her only al inter
yais Of i've or six years. Macnuley says
tle Overwhelming attractions OF MS
Williams. JohnEons elderly widow, whom
ho az q married. were her poverty ana
her blindness. Byron's long acquaintance
with Miss Milbank did not discover her
suspicious ard exacting temper Lazy
Huiwers disposition and that OF the au-
thor OF MY Novel, were not compatible.
fact which was evident TO oil their
friends before marriage a. well as after
it Tho wives OF both Thackerdy and
George Lewes were insane. Socrates. the
embodiment Of common sense ana a
divining rod as TO character. made the
c1ustic Nantippc, whose reputation had
already been established al the wells, the
object Of his courtship. After having low
% dearly ana hope.essly Scott settled
down upon "A commonplace woman OF small
Intelligence Lander selected lady OF q
disposition so nntaEonistic 70 MS, that
econ chronic quarrel broke out between
ihom which drove him from Italy TO Eng
and. broke out afresh when she returned,