Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-08-09

choice quilted him at the end of
twelvemonth. Chateaubriand frankly
hated his spouse and suffered himself
to see her only at intervals of five or
six years. Macaulay says the over
whelming attractions of Mrs. williams
Johnson's elderly widow, whom he at
81 married, were her poverty and her
blindness. Byron's long acquaintance
with Miss Millbank did not discover
her suspicious and exacting temper.
Lady Bulwer's disposition and that of
the author of MY Novel" were not
compatible, fact which was evident to
all their friends before marriage, as
we'll as after it, The wives of both
ThackeI-y and George Lewis were
common sense and divining rod as to
common sence and divining rod as to
character, made the caustic Xantippe,
whose reputation had already been es-
tablished at the wells, the object Of
his courtship. After having loved
dearly and hopelessly Scott settled
down upon commonplace woman of
small intelligence. Lander selected 4
lady of disposition so antagonistic to
his that soon chronic quarrel broke
out between them which drove him
from Italy tC England, broke out
afresh when she returned, and finally
sent him back to Italy, where he died
exiled from home and family.
Goethe And Carlyle.
Goethe, who, if experience is
teacher, should certainly have known
women, married the stupid Christiane
Fielding, his wife's maid, because she
wore a tidy cap. Shelley, who, it is
true, should be judged by no common
standard and who was a spirit of
Ariels race, drove Harriet Westbrook
to suicide, and, according to Ire
lawney, his marvellous and exceptional
intellect would have soon wearied of
Mary. Dickens became so exhausted
with the society of his uncongenial
wife that he put her away, though she
was the mother of his six children.
Fitzgerald, of the Omar Khayyam,
lived in the country when his wife
went to town and discovered a taste
for the city when that lady sought the
shades, and the astute and dignified
Lord Stowell, whose keen eye for
justice and the discovery of crime
made him the terror of ,he evil doer,
welded cook, who beat him with her
broom.
Had Carlyle married Lady Scott,
with her domestic tastes and narrow
mind, one can imagine the sage of
Chelsea pouring forth maledictions in
deed but after the manner of Isaiah
rather than jeremiah, while under the
the influence of Scotts chivalry Mrs.
Carlyle might have blossomed into
sweetness and her keen intellect have
saved him from the disaster of the
Ballantynes. Had Coleridge married
Marlborough's Duchess, this column is
inclined to think he would not have
left Southey to support his family. If,
indeed, their friends had the arranging
of marriages instead of the interested
parties themselves! Sir" said the
great DR.. Johnson, 81 believe that
marriages in general would be as
happy, if not happier, if made by the
Lord Chancellor upon consideration of
the character and circumstances, with
out the parties having any choice in
the matter"
The Explanation.
This is a gloomy collection of evil
dence. 1t is enough to make nice
young woman send word she is out,
CHI ;1 e;t -,
window, when the clever young man
comes to call. 1t is enough to induce
a high-spirited brother to call him out
when genius, by admiring young
lady, in this unmistakable manner
declares that he is weak or silly, or a
shrew. For she cannot flatter herself
that talent is prone to fall victim to
her beauty, a sin to which woman is
not stern.
Josephine, Theodore, Lady Hamil
ton, the wife of Marcus Aurelius, Mary
Powell, of all the list, alone possessed
the fatal gift. Nor did passion and the
indeflnable, subtle attraction
blind the eye of wisdom. Only
Shelley, the Duke of Marlborough, Adj
olson, Henry VIII, Justinian, Thake-
ray and Peter the Great admitted hav-
ing married for love.
The explanation of the failure of
the marriages of men of ability is not
original, but thisc olumn concurs in it
and ADDS its irnprlmatur. In the first
place, man of genius is man and
shares this popularity of his sex:
When he likes a woman, even to
slight degree, he believes he knows all
about her, resents auvice from his
family or friends, and construes even
her own action according to his fixed
opinion of her mind and character.
To this self-assertion common to every
man a man of genius adds a deep and
interior vanity which in another is
kept down by failure and experience.
Because he can write q sonnet or con-
mand a army or negotiate a dipio-
matte situation, a clever man imagincs
he can fathom the mind of a woman.
The predominance of any one faculty
overbalances tho structure, and we
have a secret belief not displeasng to
self love, that there is some relation
between genius and insanity which