Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-09-24

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George Eliot and George Lewes.
George Eliot had none of that nroud
independence which comes from self
iellahce and strength of character She
had no strength Of character. She had n
mastery intellect-a superb intelligence.
Dut her nature was of that hothouse
KIND which is dependent on circum-
stance Tor It's own c0nditiOn-which can
nor i've in the cold shade of neglect and
winch must have the help of sympathy
to live at all. Her letters echo and re-
echo that one cry. Give me sympathy. "
and are penetrated through with the hun
cry longing for love. Without sympathy
from many, her gifts Of mind were of no
aFau; and the love of one was essential
10 her very existence. As time went on.
adulation grew to be as essential rs
love, and, as little as she could live
without the personal companionship of
a lover to minister to her needs and de-
vote himself to her care, so little could
she live without the adulation to which
she had grown accustomed. Had Mr..
Lewes been a different man-had he one
touch of delicacy of conscience, of sensi-
tlveness of hber-had he failed a hairs
breadth in his resolute determination 10
get what he wanted, to make the best
job of life possible and to play his part
like the finished actor he was-she would
rot have strength of character on her
side to have taken the step she did
ms step, however, was not so mo-
mentous in her unknown days as it
would have been later, when she had
come to her fame. Then. in all rroba-
hility, she would not have taken ii ALL
But when they went away - Germany
together. neither she nor Mr.. Lewes
gave up what the world calls social posi-
ton, because the one had none to give
up, and the other had lost what he
once had; and both gained in personal
advantage by the association He had
q helpmate whose intellect ard its earn
lngs were to his good and she had the
devotion of a man whose love had in
it that element of alteration and self
impression which is dearest of all to Il
woman like George Eliot, at once jeal-
GUS and dependent. demanding exclusive
devotion and needing lncessant care-but
ready to give all she had in return. This
HDN Il VI Stll-Sul Jt eSStbb lOl tlt SAM
of a woman had been already shown in
Mr.. Lewes' conduct to his wife-the true
history of which will never be written.
Failing in love with Marian Evans, he
grew tired of the singular part he had
voluntarily played for some years, and
so swept the board clear. And through
the twenty years of their union this self
suppression again was the main
feature in this singular mans contradlc-
tory career. His own works, his own
fame, his own individuality We're al
merged in his companions, and his life
was one long act of devotion to her and
their Joint interests-to making her as
happy and keeping her mind as tranquil
as her morbid temperament and frau
health permitted; protecting her from
every annoyance - making himself the
fender to keep her free from the slight
est shock or abrasion-surrounding her
with a certain halo of almost sacred
mystery-keeping her in a state of al
most regal exelusiveness-and employing
all his histrionic powers to perfeetlng
the mise en- scene and the attitude to be
taken on the boards. This devotion was
a curious interlacing of selhshness and
unse.fshness. He made his own account
by it. both pecuniarily and socially; but
it shows the lovable side of the man as
well as the more ignobe. 1t is, however,
pure fiction to talk of this union as an
act of heroic self-sacrifce on the part
of Marian Evans for the sake of re-
deeming a wasted life-restoring n
ruined home. Whatever had gone on
within the four walls Of that dislocated
home, had gone on with Mr. Lewes' ex-
press permission and sympathetic sane
ton, and the whole story was as well
known to Miss Evans as to others. That
sermon of eulogistic forgiveness of her
own informal connection, preached on the
text of this sublime self-sacrifce, which
the world repeated at all street corners
to the glory of George Eliot, was a ser
mon preached in the air. In the begin
ming of things, the connection, with her
fame exalted into an epic poem, was n
very simple, natural and commonplace
arrangement between two people who
loved each other and could not marry by
any law of any land. Afterwards all
sorts of myths grew about the bond, and
those responsibilities who crowded her
drawing-room, yet did not like to coun-
tenance adultery to the world at large,
did their best to salve over their con-
sciences by pretending that there had
been some kind of ceremony which sane
tilted and redeemed the union.-Selected.
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His One Talent
by Tue LlilC TINS az tillt - pAliiAtu Alac
man whose story it relates may have
gone to his reward. Already he mas eX-
ceeded the space of time allotted him by
the physicians, and has added a few
more painful months to those that had
gone before. That he can live another
year. or even half that time, seems now
all but impossible; and almost any morn
ing may witness for him the daybreak
of the life of which it is written that
there shall be no more pain. When the
terrible accident was over, and they un-
covered his mangled body. so little Of
life was left in it that they thought him
dead. And when the surgeons had fin
ished their work there remained but the
physical wreck of a man. Both legs
were gone: the left arm was missing,
and had taken with it the greater part
of the collar bone. OF the right hand
only finger and the thumb remained.
There was only enough left of the man
that had been, 10 suffer and remember.
But he still possessed a brilliant mind.
stored with the rich fruitage Of a college
training and enriched by travel in every
part Of the world. And il was all vast
ed, wasted, wasted. There was nothing
he could do but to rerlain helpless suf-
ferer. So he thought as he sat by the
window in the Home for lncurables, and
looked out on a world of which he had