The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-05-28

the chapter; but the other was not to
be disposed of so easily.
She was in London at this time, and
one day her husband piayfully sug
gested that the fresh air at their home
at Haslemere might sharpen up her
wits and prove an inspiration. "Hasle-
mere-Elsmere, I have it.-Robert Els
mere! Exactly what connection there
Is between 'Haslemere" and "Elsmere"
still remains an unsolved problem, but
the minds of the great are mysteTiOusly
and wonderfully made.
Eugene Field took a personal dislike
to the late Senator Tabor, and one Of
his ways Of making life uneasy for
Tabor was brought about in this way:
Tabor purchased several magnificent
lace night robes, which cost 800
apiece, which he kept locked up in his
safe during the day. Field was editor
OF the Denver Tribune at the time,
and those lace night robes made him
simply hysterical. He wrote column
upon column Of them. describing the
garments in detail, with numerous dia-
grams depicting sections fore and aft.
The diagrams were hideOus affairs,
which Field carved out himself with
a penknife, on the back of old wood
type.
He used to describe how Tabor would
forget the combination of the safe, and
sit up, shivering and naked half the
night. trying to remember the right
figures. Altogether, he kept Denver in
a roar for weeks. and made Tabor so
wild that one day he rushed into his
office, snatched the unfortunate night
robes out Of their compartment and
tore them to shreds
SWiff'c ipvoksr, 2.
select peculiar methods in obtaining
material for his characters. His Med
itation on a Broomstick" was written
as caricature on Robert Boyle's "Oc-
casional Reflections on Several Sub
jects"
The model of all wifely and queenly
virtues mentioned by Daudet in his
Rois en- Ellie" was none other than
the eX-queen of Naples. This ideal
queen in exiles late husband, who was
a great fool, according to Daudet, used
to be very much afraid of her. She was
the better horse, and of a dashing.
valiant temper, as her conduct at the
siege of Gaeta bore witness, and she
regarded the eX-king as silly, and not
10 be considered. save on state occa-
siOns. He, poor man, would go to the
Madeleine to pray for his handsome
spouse when she went to learn bare
! back riding at the hippOdrome.
some Of the originals Of characters
pictured by authors and gathered from
the best authorities are as follows:
Walter Savage Lander was the original
or BaythOrn in BLEAK House" in
which same book Leigh Hunt was pill
lorled as Harold Skimpole, fact which
! Dickens afterward deeply regretted.
fNrrr he Of
Edmunds Yates: Folker in "Penden-
mis-" was Andrew Archdehue; DR.. Port
man was DR.. Cornish. and Bulwer. an
| peared in THE Yellowplush Papers
as Bulwig. The Rebecca Of SCOTS
"lvanhoe" was Rebeeca Gratz of Phil
! adelphia, the founder Of the Foster
Jewish home of that city Scott never
saw her, but heard much of her through
/ Washington Irving.
Henry Labouchere was the original
OF Grandcourt in George Eliot's Daniel
/ Deronda-' The present Duke Of Dew
onshire was the original Of Lord st.
Aldegonde in DisraeIrs "Lothair." Rose
| Amelia, Countess of Wilbaix. and her
l sister, the wife Of General Adam Ba-
/ deau, who are the relatives of Eugene
/ Sue. are said to have been the originals
o. Rose and Blanche in The Wander
/ ing Jew
By the Lady With the Lamp Long.
| Fellow refers to Florence Nightingale
1 whom he hkens 10 st. Filomena. be-
cause Of her devotion to the sick and
suffering Moreover, the name sug-
! gests phllOmela," which is the Latir
for nightingale. In telling Of the origin
! OF Alice in Wonderland" Mrs. Har.
! graves born Alice Siddel said she was
/ the original Alice; her elder sister. Mrs
Skene, Prima, and Edith, the youngest
was Tertfa. The story was told on river
/ excursions to Muncham and Godstow
/ near Oxford