Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-11-07
FAMOUS MEMS WIVES.
Ehsy Flay an Important I'm tho Lives
of Men.


Ehsy Flay an Important I'm tho Lives
of Men.
If there is any pant OF the hfeek0E30
ct grentmen which has fascination Tor
every one, dt as certainly that which
tetds how they wooed and won their
wives, and 1t would seem that their diff.
0erent methods of lovemaklng are ct
aeaSt characteristic of the men as any
other of their acts.
One cannot, for instance, picture
Hsnark laying a long siege 10 a8ady's
heart and consuming himself width
signs and tears. 1t was characterize
of the man that he should take Cupid
by the eair and compel him to sub
jechion-and 80 he did. lit was at
wedding THAT he first saw Fraulein Won
Puttl1ammer, and ito see was to be
wanquished. He had scarcely DOTTED
his wedding garments when he sat
down and wrote to her parents, de-
naIainding her hand in marriage.
When Herr Won Puttkammer re.
ceived this peremptory demand from
q young MAN whose repute was not
too good, ut was,' he said, 'sas II
some one had struck me on the head
with a heavy AK" However, he in
vted the bold wooer TO pay him
visit; and within "a few hours young
Bismark made his appearance.
On his arrival the parents and
daughter was prepared to give him
polite and formal welcome; but Bis
marks intentions We're much more
cordial, for. ignoring the extended
hands of the parents, he threw his
arms around THE daughter and gave
her hearty and resounding kiss. The
tadel was stormed, and within a few
minutes the impetuouS hover was for
merly betrothed.
Mr.. GlEadsttoneis woofng was much
more conventional and ceremonious,
ais might be expected. It was over "a
dinner table that Miss Glynne caught
her first glimpse OF the young man TO
whom she was to devote her life. DO
you see that young man?" "a States
man who wais shifting neNt ITO hersaid:
'Some day he will be Prime Minister
of England"
No wonder the young girls interest
was aroused, and when, in the winter
following they met again in the
lower's land of Italy, what wonderhaht
the wooing proseeded apace, and that
the foundation OF one of the most
beautiful married lives in history wae
laid?
No man ever had q more romantic
wooing than Richard Brinsley Sheri-
| dam when he determined 'to make Miss
| Enlev. the beautiful Nightingale sof
Bath" his wife She counted her suta-
OTIS by the score, butSheridan's roman
tic devotion. won her heart. He dis
| CURSED himself AIS a coachman mere
| " to have the pleasure of triving
| her; he escorted her to IA French num-
| merry ITO rescue her from the preoau-
ti,ons of an odioud wooer. with whom
| he fought two duels on her behalf.
| And this was but "a type CT the chivaa-
rous adventures which ultimately en-
abled him to lead her Ito the after
in April, 1878.
His second wooing was just as PEI.
sfkstent. When Sheridan first met the
beautiful daughter of the Dean 81
Winchester he was middbeIa ged man,
and anything but personally fascinaf-
| ing. Miss Ogle could not bear the
| Gight of him, and'called him IAN odious
creature and ridiculous fright, ~
but within a short time she was glad
togive her hand and heasrt to "moek
fascinating man in England, and q
husband of whom any girl .might be
| proud"
Tt was Mrs. Lewis rather than Dis.
raeli who did the wooing. for she made
no conceallment of her admiration for
the rising Statesman. and pursued him
with attentions which nm "a younger
woman would have been Indecent
And yet the ''dowdy widow" succeeded
where mere youth and beauty would
certainly have failed, for who ~ re-
sfst the worship of a woman? And
she succeeded by "a hive long devotion
On winning her husbands heaT1tias well
aD his gratitude.