Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-02-10

"Matrimony has many children.
They are Repentance, Discord, Bad
Temper. Loathing, etc."
So wrote a grabbed, cynical clergy.
man early in the seventeenth century.
He was not the sort Of man whom the
average woman would be supposed to
care about. For he was homely, and
of awkward, sloyenly aspect. His
temper was savage; his satire hit like
Vitrfol. He was not rich. nor Of high
birth. He was a bully and lacked all
that women most admire. Yet he is
the hero of at least three famous love
stories.
The man was Jonathan Swift, dean
OF st. Patrick's, Dublin. His youth
was passed in poverty and struggle.
His pen later won for him a deathless
reputation as a satirist and enabled
him to rule his fellows by fear and
ridicule. He rose slowly from post to
post in church and politics until he
became dean Of st. Patrick's.
It was while Swift as youth was
secretary to a statesman named Tenn
pie that he became tutor to little
Esther Johnson, the eight.year-old
An Early Love daughter OF Ibis his
N"S"' keeper. The child
was not only clever and lovable, but
beautiful as well. Swift wrote of her:
Her hair was blacker than a raven
and every feature of her face is per-
lection" The name Esther" means
star" So does "Stella." Swift ad-
dressed the child as Stella" and al
ways afterward called her by that at.
fectionate nickname.
When Stella was older she and an
elderly chaperon came to live near
Swift in Ireland. For years she and
the clergyman had kept up constant
correspondence AS she grew to won.
anhood their early friendship deepen.
ed into love. The girl adored Swift
with her whole intense nature. He,
on his part, received her worship as
deserved compliment, flattered or
neglected her, according to his within,
End bullied her numerically. All his
caprices and domineering ways Stella
bore without complaint.
Meantime Swift had earlier fallen
more or less in love with a Miss
Warning. IL was an age of poetical,
high-hown nicknames. For instance,
a man named Peter Jones would sign
his love letters "Eugenio," while John
Smith would call himself 'Roderigo"
or "Amyntas." Swift called Miss
Warning ''Varina," and is said to have
proposed. She rejected him. This
was in 1894. when he was q. Two
years later "Varina" became so
enamoured of him that she actually
begged MIN to be her husband. Swift,
who had had time to change his mind,
rudely avenged himself for her earlier
neglect by writing her so brutal let
ter OF refusal that the acquaintance
ship was ended then and there.
Then began his famous Irritation
with Hester Vanhomrigh, London
girl of good family, at whose mothers
house Swift had often been an hon
ored guest. He called Miss Vanhom-
RICH "Vanessa," and in his poetical ef.
fusions addressed to her signed him
self "Cadanus." When he went back
to Ireland Vanessa followed him and
settled in his neighborhood. She was
10. He was A. He seems to have
cared little for her. She loved him
with all her heart; so absolutely. In
deed. that she was deaf to his hints
that he was tired of her devotion
Swift was at his wits ends to keep
Stella and Vanessa from meeting and
to guard the secret Of each from the
other.
In 1716 he privately married Stella
The wedding ceremony took place al
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