The Washington times., 1901-11-24
SOME FAMOUS coURTsHIPs.
Love Romances which Have Become
Historical.

The wooing of Sir Richard Burton, the
great traveller, was quick and very un-
conventional, says "Tit-Bits." One day
when Miss Arundel twho, strangely
enough, had been told by gypsy woman
| that she would cne day bear the name Of
| 'Burton') was walking with her sister in
| Boulogne, she passed strange man
whose dark eyes, as she afterwards con-
fessed, seemed to hypnotize her."
Turning TO her sister she declared.
Some day that man will marry me-" On
the following day the sisters again met
the strange gentleman, who chalked upon
the wall the question, May l speak TO
you?" Miss Arundel chalked in response,
mo; mamma will be angry"--and this
was the beginning of one of the most re-
markable wooings and welded lives in
the whole romance of love.
The .oft-told story that Mr.. Gladstone
caught his first glimpse of the girl whose
life was to be so closely linked with his
for half century across the dining table
of a mutual friend is denied on author
ity; the true version of this most inter
esting wocing being that the youthful
statesman Che was even at that early
age a minister of the CROWN first saw
Sir Stephen Glynne's beautiful daughter
so charmed by her simplicity and grace
and the intelligence Of her remarks that
he whispered to a friend, "If ever /
marry, that is the girl who will be my
WIFE" 1t was under these most roman
tic of conditions and environment that
Mr.. Gladstones fate was sealed.
When John Ruskin first saw Adele Do
mecq the beautiful daughter of his faith
er's partner, when she came on visit to
"a L har ,,.It- Coll
head over heels in love with her sweet
oval face and graceful figure" But Adele
could speak no English and he knew moth
ing of her native tongue, Spanish; while
his natural shyness made his efforts at
loyemaking so ridiculous she declared: '.If
this boy does not desist / shall die OF
laughing s1..4-. 80,
But for young Ruskin it was the one
love of lifetime, and from the day when
Adele became the wife of Baron Duquesne
his heart was dead within him."
1t is told of certain distinguished
statesman of today that lis first glimpse
of the lady who became lis wife was from
the window OF clubroom in Pail Mall.
The first glance stimulated his curiosity
so much that, leaving the club. he follow
cd her at a discreet distance for more
than hour. until she disappeared
through the doorway of her home Hav-
ing thus ascertained her address, he dis
covered her name, sought and obtained an
Introduction, and within year, SO impet-
uous was his wooing,. lad made her his
wife,
The beautiful Duchess of Sutherland
found the key to matrimonial luck in the
number thirteen. In the early eighties,
when the Countess of Rosslyn was giving
a dinner party, she discovered to her hor-
ror that. unless another guest was pro-
duced thirteen would sit down to dinner
To avert this calamity she called to her
aid her young daughter. Lady Millicent,
then a school girl Of sixteen, who not
only made the desired fourteen, but SO
captivated the fancy of the Marquis of
Stafford, who took her in to dinner, that
he had fallen in love with her before the
first course was over.