The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-03-15
(St. Louis Globe-Democrat1

sense that we use the phrase. If the most
common place w'ooing Of the most COM
mon place people possesses an irresistible
interest, what shall be said when the
loves on which We look are the loves Of
the 1mmortalS?
And first let Us think how some of those
whose especial duty is love, that is 10 say.
the poets. have managed their own love
enalrs. II Is true that poetasters and
pretenders to genius have always had
snort tempers and wild. undomestic
ways. but what of real poets and those
who have the long patience of real gen.
sus. II would seem that for good family
men who can love their wives and bring
up their children respectfully they cannot
De beaten: Men do not make their homes
unhappy because. they have genius" SAYS
i Wordsworth. but because they have not
enough genius. A mind and sentiment Of
higner order would render them capable
81 ssstns an, ana fseliPs al tha beauty Of
himself is an example. Miss Martineau.
VINO was neighbor Of his. descri bes how
very very happy ne and his wife went down
tne nil OF life together. ''They seemed
Ike lovers counting, they were so tender
ana attentive 10 each. other" Referring
70 the ooscurity Of much of BroWning's
poetry, Wordsworth said when he heard
shat the poet was going TO marry Miss
Jarrett, the poeteSs, 4 hope they'll un-
Gers'and one another" Certainly, Mrs.
b[oHn lng qld not think that she under
SS.ooa ner husband. for She wrote to q
friend. Nobody exactly understands him
except me, who am in tie inside of him
and hear him breathe" If ID is a risk
70 marry any poet, II seemed to Miss Bar
retIS friends a tempting of providence
ana a doubling of this risk for two of
ms irritable profession TO wed. Contrary
70 expectations, the result was exception /
al happiness. In the biography of Rob
eft Browning there are the following
words. which ought to be considered BY
az az E W. low would solve the problem. How to
pc happy though married.: The deep
neart-loye. the many-sided intellectual
sympathy preserved their union in rare
beauty TO the end But to say that it
thus maintained itself as if by magic
without effort Of self-sacrifc on his part
OF or resignation on hers would be as
UNJUST to the noble qualities Of both as
II %ould be false to assert that its COM
pensating happiness had ever failed
them" The other great master of song
oeiong1ng to our time and country was
a,so conspicuous for conjugal felicity. In
1870 Tennyson married Miss Emily Sell
wood the daughter of a solicitor The
young couple lived for the first two years
az T~lekenhem. Their first baby died,
crazy with laughter, and babble and /
earth'S new wine"
Dante and Beatrice.
No more beautiful! love of man for wo-
man is on record than that of Dante for 1
Beatrice, whom he first saw in 1274 He 1
Orly nlst her once or twice. nevertheless. |
when she married he fell SERIOUSLY in and /
when she died. as she did shortly after. /
his Iife was in danger. and he became "a |
ming wild and savage to look upon" /
Throughout the cherries wandering, of a 4
storm-beaten existence. Beatrice was the 4
soul - Ms
On April 6, 1927, happened the most IA
nous event In Petrarch'S history. He saw
Laura Tor the first time. Who Laura was /
remains uncertain still. We may how
eyer reject the skeptical hypothesis that /
Sne T'aS mere Pigment Of the DOet's /
fancy; and, IL we accept her personal re-
AMY, the poems of her lover demonstrate /
that she was married woman with /
y w,r2in tr ne enJoyed respectful and not
Inc poet and divine. John Dome, who /
became dean OF st. PaulS in I62l had
M lady belonging TO rich fam
ana IN consequence was treated with great
aspef1ty; in fact he was told by his ia
i Iner-ln-.aw that he was not to expect any
money from him The doctor went ho-,a !
ana penned the pftchy nOte: John Donna
anne Dome, Undone," which he sent 10
tne gentleman in question and this had |
tne eIect OF restoring them TO favor The
SouPie were very poor at first but things
soon got brighter, and thew lived most /
happiIy together until Mrs Dome who |
naa oeen married when only Is years Of
Dir - her twelfth child /
,Another poet and civ ne WHO was not IN
zone o. ats nafr age. out greatly helped
ant ,,iI coIn1orted was George Herbert It
was an exception to the marrying in haste
anu repenting at leisure rule. for he and
MS VIE married on the third dav after
mar nrst interview, and there was never
any opposition betwiXt them, unless ii
were a contest which should most incline
70 a compliance with the others desires -
heroert made his wife his almOner. and
PAID 20 her regularly tenth of an he re-
of his parish.
There was an exception. however. TO
the rule OF marrying in haste and repent-
leisure q Ga Of Na1f Co
age Dandor and his wife, The poet met
ms future wife at a ball, and determined
on the instant 10 marry her. Not long
after ne had done so Mrs. Lander came to .
think that "a conversation with her htIs-
Dsnd was Incomplete without a quarrel -
Even in the honeymoon She wounded the
some OF his own verses 10 his bride-and
no read more exquiSitely when al at
ones the lady. releasing herself from his
arm, jumped up, saying, Oh do stop
Walter, there's that dear delightful Punch
performing m the street; l must look out
Of the window"
And. oh; If there be an Elysium on earth.
Il is this, il is this.
Thomas Moore. who wrote these words
did himself taste the Elysium of conjugal
Ia , F Is91 Isl. ISL the year Of his
Bessy received from him the homage OF a
lover. Whatever amusement he might
md in the grand society in which he
mixed. he always returned to his wife and
children with fresh feeling of delight
Many women deserve. but few women
receive, such an l. o. .. as that which
thing, dearest. till 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 faii',
Notwithstanding this appreciation. ne
would occasionally play harmless prac-
tical jokes upon her. Once when staying
at Brighton. he gave her few hints on
buying fish. and concluded by saying: If
the fish you are buying is place, beware
of any having red or orange spots. as
they are certain TO be stale" When the
fisherwoman came around it happened
that she had little except plaice and Mrs
Hood observed that all had spots against
which she had been warned. She hinted
to the fishwife that they were not fresh.
and, upon being assured that they had not
been long out OF the water, she Observed:
Ny good woman. il may be as you say.
out could not think or buying any plaICe
with those Very unpleasant red spots"
The woman's answer, which Hood heard
with delight from behind the door. was
perfect shout. Lord bless your eyes.
mum, who ever seed any without them /
Why Gordon Never Married.
On August %, 1620. Oliver Cromwell mar
ried Elizabeth Boucher. daughter of a
knight and wealthy London merchant.
Mrs Cromwell may not have had much
character. but her husband never ceased
10 love her. and thirty years after their :
marriage he wrote TO her (the day after
Dunbar: Truly. if 1 love you not too
well, l think l err not on the other hand
too much. Thou art dearer TO me than
any creature, let that suffice"
General Gordon said. he never married ,
because he never found a woman prepared
10 accompany him TO the ends of he
earth Such woman Sir Henry Law
renee did find. She went with HIM into
nearly every place in India where his
work brought him. however dinicult or
dangerous.
One day the scarcely less celebrated
Lord John Lawrence was sitting in his
drs wing room at Southgale with his sister
and other members of the family. Look
ing Up from the book in which he had
been engrossed. ne discovered that lis