The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-03-17
Isl. Louis Globe-Demoerat.l


Love affairs may become famous IN
themselves from their intensity, their
length the figure they cut in a law court,
or from anything else out of the common
connected with them. Or they are fam
Gus because they are or were the affairs
of celebrated people. It is in this latter
sense that we use the phrase. If the most
common place wooing of the most COM
mon place people possesses an irresiStDle
interest what shall be said when the
loves on which we look are the loves Oh
The immortals?
whose especial duty is joVe, that is 10 say,
the poets. have managed their own love
affairs It is true that poetasters and
pretenders to genius have always had
short temperS and wild, undonesllC
ways. but what Of real poets and those
who have the long patience of real gen
ius? 1T would seem that for good fanny
men who can love their wives ana DiIIS
up their children respectfully they cannot
be beaten Men do not make their MONIES
unhappy because they have genius, says
Wordsworth, but because they have not
enough genius. A mind and sentiment oil
higher order would render them capaOle
Of seeing and feeling all the beauty of
domestic ties Of this. Wordsworth
himself is an example. Miss Martineau.
who was q. neighbOr of his, describes how
very happy he and his wife went down
the hill Of life together. They seemed
like lovers counting. they were so tender
and attentive to each other; Referring
10 the obscurity OF much Of Browning
poetry Wordsworth said, when he heard
that the poet was gong to marry MISS
Barrett. the pOetess. Il hope they'll un-
derstand one another. Certainly. Mrs.
browning did not think that she under
stood her husband. for she wrote TO
friend, Nobody exactly understands him
except nie, who am in the inside of him
and hear him breathe" If it is a risk
10 marry any poet. il seemed TO Miss Bar
rett s friends a tempting of providence
and doubling Of this risk for two Of
inns irritable profession to wed. Contrary
10 expectations. the result was exception
al happiness. In the biography of Rob
err browning there are the following
words. which ought to be considered by
an who would solve the problem, How TO ]
De happy though married; The deep {
heart-love, the many-sided intellectual /
SympdJnY. preserved their union in rare /
beauty to the end. But to say that it |
thus maintained itself as if by magic. I
without effort Of Self-Sacrifice on his part 1
or Of resignation on hers. would be as /
UNJUST to the noble qualities Of both as /
II would be false to assert that its COM /
liehSallng happiness had ever failed |
mem The other great master of song 1
belonging to our time and country was !
also conspicuous for conjugal felicity. In .
1901 IennySon married Miss Emily Sell I
wood, the daughter of a solicitor The
young couple lived for the first two years
az Iwlckenham. Their first baby died,
ouI IN 1905 there was another, a year Old,
crazy with laughter and babble and
earth new wine"
Dante and Beatrice.
No more beautiful love of man for wo-
beatrlce, whom he first saw in 1874 He
only met her once or twice: nevertheless.
When she married he fell seriously ill., and
when she died. a she did shortly after (
MS life was in danger and he became "a
thing wild and savage to look upon"
throughout the cherries wandering of
storm beaten existence. Beatrice was the
soul.
on April 6. 1927, happened the most ia
nous event in Petrarchs history. He saw
Laura for the first time. Who Laura was
remains uncertain still We may how
ever, reject the skeptical hypothesis that
she was mere Pigment of the poets
fancy; and, If we accept her personal re- :
atty, the poems Of her lover demonstrate |
mat she was married woman with
Whom ne enjoyed a respectful and not
very Intimate friendship
The poet and divine. John Dome. who
became dean of St. Pauls in 1921, had [
51laIIleq a lady belonging to rich fam {
lly, without the consent of her parents,
anu IN consequence was treated with great
sts III IN TACT; he was told by his ia
.LlsL ~ Jaw t9f:t he was not to expect any :
money from him. The doctor went home
emo penned the prtchy note: John Dome. :
anne Donne, undOne.' which he sent to
me gentleman in question. and this had
lne effect OF restoring them to favor The 5
coupe We're very poor at first, but things
nappLy together until Mrs Dome who s
ndd been married when only is wears of
blrth OF her twelfth child q
sAhother poet and divine who was not I'M I
zone by his marriage, but greatly helped 7
ana cOmfOrted was George Herbert If r
was an exception to the marrying in haste l
ana fepentlng at leisure rule for he and I
ms wire married on the third day after T
lhGr llrSt interview. and there was never [
any opposition betwiSt them, unless it
were contest which should most incline 4
70 a compliance with the others desires" s
4lerhefL MADE his wife his alnOner and i
pald 10 her regularly tenth of all he re- f
Sel[ed as tithes, 10 be spent on the poor O
OF his parish. 7
There was an exception. however. 10 I
me rule Of marrying in haste and repent n
ing at leisure IN the case Of Walter Say I
~ i-s,uor ana ms wire, The poet met v
ms llJure vile at ball, and determined s
on the instant to marry her Not long r
otter ne had done so Mrs. Landor came to n
Inlnk that - conversation with her h1is- U
band was incomplete without a quarrel 4" q
Even in the honeymoon she wounded the II
Door man vanity Lander was reading v
Who read more eXquisftelY all al h
once the lady, releasing herself from his h
S S,-ni,+ JuInlpeG up SAYING, on: do stop, o
performing in the street; must look out h.
Of the window" :.
And, oh! if there be an Elysium on earth &
II is this, it is this "
Thomas Moore, who wrote these words n
did himself taste the Elysium of condugal 4
TO 1852, that of his death. his IL
Bessy received from him the homage of a h
lover. Whatever amusement he might 4,
ma IN the grand society in which he .,
mixed, he always returned to his wife and AZ
children with a fresh feeling of delight. -
Many women deserve, but few women -
Hood gave his wife. Il never was any n
thing, dearest, till I knew you. and / have
been better happier and more prosper
Gus man ever since. Lay that truth in
lavender: sweetest, and remind me of il
when l fail"
Notwithstanding this appreciation he
would occasionally play harmless prac- W
teal jokes upon her. Once when STAYING :.
al Brighton, he gave her a few hints on "a
buying fish and concluded by saving: Of cl
ne ish you are buying is plaice, beware m
IF any having red or orange spots as ds
.hey are certain to be stale" When the 10
lSnerWOman came around il happened -
nat she had little except place. and Mrs ".
1000 observed that all had spots against ca
which she had been warned. She limited 81
o the nshwife that they were not fresh
mo, upon being assured that they had not :
My good woman. il may be as Won saw
ut l could not think of buying any nlaics Is
With those very unpleasant red spots" a
he wom3n's answer, which Hood heard
With delight from behind the door W-ae .
erfect shout Lord bless vour. exas
lum, who ever seed any without them -
Why Gordon Never Married.
on August 2, 1920, Oliver Cromwell mar =.
led Elizabeth Boucher, daughte,, of a :
night and wealthy London merchant.
but her husband never ceased n
, love her, and thirty years after their "
laTrsia i he 9., wrote 70 her Ghe day after
ell l think / err not on the other hand :
% much. Thou art dearer 10 me than
ny creature, let that suffice !
General Gordon said he never 1,,arrie.7 =
scause he never found a woman prepared -
accompany him to the ends of me '
l1'th. Such a woman Sir Henry Law
nee nee dld ma. she went with him into =
Early. every place in India where his =
ork brought him. however difficult or b-
vigorous. III