The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-28
LOVES OF NOTED PEOPLE.
ALL MEN AND WOMEN OF LETTERS
HAVE NOT MARRIED UNI APPLY.
Touching Devotion Has Marked Re-
latiOns of CeIebritics-Harmo OF
Thought Is Seen In the Records OF
Always Necessary to True Happi-

InOuGnI Is seen IN the decOFus OF
Genius-COngenialit of Tastes Not
Always Necessary to True Happi-
ness.
From the ST. Louis Globe Democrat.
Love affairs may become famous in
themselves from their intensity. their
length, the figure they cut in law court
or from anything else out of the COM
mon connected with them. Or they are
famous because they are or were the af
fairs of celebrated people. 1t is in this
latter sense that we use the phrase. If
the most commonplace wooing of the
most commonplace people possesses an ir-
resistible interest, what shall be said
when the loves on which, we look are the
loves of the immortals?
No more beautiful love of man for wo-
man is on record than that of Dante for
Beatrice, whom he saw first in 1874 He
only met her once or twice; nevertheless.
when she married he fell seriously ILL., and
when she died, as she did shortly after.
his life was in danger and he became "a
thing wild and savage to look upon"
Throughout the cheerless wanderings of
a
muse of his intellect and the angel of his
soul.
On April 6, 1927. happened the most ia
nous event in Petrarch's history. He saw
Laura for the first time Who Laura
was remains uncerta n still. We may,
however. reject the skepucal hypothesis
that she was a mere figment of the poet >
fancy; and. if we accept her personal
reality, the poems of her lover demon
stra tie that she was a married woman
with whom he enjoyed respectful and
not very intimate friendship.
Fortune Saved by wit.
The poet and divine, John Dome, who
became dean Of st. Pauls in 1921, had mar
ried a lady belonging 10 a rich family
v-'fhout the consent of her parents, and
in consequence was treated with great as
perity; in fact he was told by his father
n-law that he was not 10 expect any mon
ey from him. The doctor went home and
penned the pithy. note. John Dome, An
ME Dome, undone,' which he sent TO the
| gentleman in question, and this had the
| effect of restoring them to favor. The
couple were very poor al hrst, but things
| soon got brighter and they lived most hap
PLY together until Mrs. Dome, who had
been married when only IS years of age.
died sixteen years afterward at the birth
| of her twelfth child.
Another poet and divine who was not
undoue by his marriage, but greatly help
| ed and comforted, was George Herbert 1t
was an exception 10 the marrying in haste
| and repenting at leisure rule, for he AMI
| his wife married on the third day after
| their first interview, Snd there was never
| any opposition betwiXt them. unless 1t
| were contest which should most incline
| TO q compliance with the others desires. -
| Herbert made his wife his amoner and
paid to her regularly tenth of all he re-
m no p
of his parish.
There was an exception, however, 10
| the rule of marrying in haste and repent
| ing at leisure in he case of Walter Saw
age Lander and his wife The poet met
| his future wife at a ball and determined
| on the instant to marry her. Not long
| after he had done so Mrs. Lander came 10
| thinkthat "a conversation with her hus-
band was incomplete without quarrel 4"
| Even in the honeymoon she wounded the
| poor mans vanity. Landor was reading
| some of his own verses to his bride-and
| who read more exqulsitely ?-when all at
| once the lady, releasing herself from his
arm, jumped up saying, "Oh, do stop.
| Walter, there's that dear, delightful
| Punch performing in The street; / must
| look out of the window"
Poets aud Their wives.
And, oh! IL there be an Elysium on earth,
1t is this, Il Is this.
Thomas Moore, who wrote these words,
| did himself taste the Elysium of conjugal
| happiness. From 1911, the year OF his
marriage, TO 1852, that Of his death, his
| Bessy received from him the homage of
| lover. Whatever amusement he might
| find in the grand society in which he mix
| ed, he always returned to his wife and
| children with a fresh feeling of delight.
Many women deserve but few women
| receive, such an | o Y as that which
thing, dearest, till / knew you. and /
have been better. happier and more pros
porous man ever since. Lay that truth in