The Detroit times., 1909-04-21

him. II l send him away 1 send her
heart and soul with him--it what you
say IL true. There would remain here
with me merely the empty form OF a
woman-who shudders at my approach
-whose lips WILL ehill-under- mine
whose arms deny response TO my en-
brace-whose eyes. cold, pitiless. Will
never shed tear except Tor him. ner
iiossr-foreed from her by husband.
Jealous and disdained.--Count Julian In
The World and His wife"
I CHICAGO. April 2O-Paul Handke.
OF Chicago woke to find that his wife
no longer loved him; that she loved
another man. Carl Wunderle, his
friend. Both are musicians In the
Thomas orchestra.
IL vas the same situation that Count
Julian thought he faced IN the play.
Handke's answer was the same.
III you love him. you must go o.
him. The heart makes its own laws,
and human laws. nor conventions, nor
the happiness of others. nor even the
vows OF matrimony can hold you when
The heart says go. Go TO him. | viii
help you free yourself"
No dramatics. no angry cutlery, no
violence. Just acquiescence as though
TO universal law
Some people wondered at the action
OF men-and they include some OF the
greatest names in art and literature
and politics-have been broad enough
To recognize love as the supreme law
of life.
The case OF Ruskin. great English
writer. who gave up his vile TO John
Millais, the painter, and his deares;
friend. Is well known. Ruskin. big
Drained. his head and heart full OF
images of beauty and power. was ply
sically weakling and an invalid. He
married because he needed some one
to take care of him
Ruskin Made No Cutlery.
With the coming OF the painter u
the Ruskin household, the woman in
Euphemia Gray woke up AID demand.
ed It's own. Suddenly she realized
that life had cheated her, and every
instinct cried out that II was wrong.
Ruskin, the secret confessed, made no
cutlery. He allowed annument pro-
ceedings 10 blaze the trail To his wife's
happiness What OF loneliness and
suffering this cost him. no one knew.
Robert Louis Stevenson was the win
ming figure in an almost parallel case.
He, too. was an invalid and unprepos.
sessing He met Mrs. Osbourne a
woman married TO a man who didn't
understand. She was trying to ex-
press herself, 10 fll the vacancy by
painting portraits. She met the writer.
They fell violently in love.
This time II was Osbourne. the Amer
lean husband. who realized that he
couldn't hold the woman he had Won.
He helped arrange the divorce and
gave Mrs. Osbourne away The new
nuptials were singularly happy.
In the life OF List, the musician.
was another striking case. When the
count d'Agoult found that his wife was
in love with the tempestuous pianist,
he was greatly grieved. But he recog-
nized that love as permanent OBJ
stacle to his own married happiness.
and agreed to a separation.
Lady Melbourne, wife OF the prime
minister OF England. became infatu-
ated with Lord Byron. who though
club-footed and ugly. had wonderful
way with women. The countess
sought him out everywhere, but the
poet tired OF her just as her husband
was drawing up articles of separation.
On the receipt OF a brutal letter from
Lord Byron, Lady Melbourne decided
the more prosy devotion OF her hus-
band was to be preferred To the
stormy Byron woofng.
Cato Lost Wife's Love.
The oldest case OF the kind occur
red In julius Caesars time. when Cato.
coolest and sternest OF the Roman
moralists, lost the love of his wife
Marcia. She had fallen in rove with
Hortensius, most brilliant, except
Cicero, of Roman orators Cato allow
ed a divorce without project, but on
the death OF his successful rival,
sought out Marcia again and married
her
The most recent case until that OF