The Prescott daily news., 1910-01-25

"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 slovenly aspect. His temper was savage; his satire hit like vitr1ol. He was not rich, nor of high birth. He was 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. Patricks.
 It was while Swift as a youth was secretary to a statesman named Tem pie that he became tutor to little Esther Johnson, the eight-year-o
 An Early Love daughter of his
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 keeper The child was not only clever and lovable, but beautiful as we'll. 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 af 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 wom- 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 whim, and bullied her unmercifully. All his caprices and domineering ways Stella bore without complaint.
 Meantime Swift had earlier fallen more or less in love with Miss Waring. It was an age of poetical, high-fown nicknames. For instance, man named Peter Jones would sign his love letters "Eugenio," while John Smith would call himself "Roderigo" or "Amyntas." Swift called Miss Waring "Varina," and is said to have proposed. She rejected him. This was in 1894, when he was 27. Two years later ''Varina" became so enamoured of him that she actually begged him 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 a let ter of refusal that the acquaintance ship was ended then and there.
 Then began his famous Irritation with Hester Vanhomrigh, a London girl of good family, at whose mothers house Swift had often been an hon. ored guest. He called Miss Vanhom- righ "Vanessa," and in his poetical eff fusions addressed to her signed him. self "Cadanus." When he went back to Ireland Vanessa followed him and settled in his neighborhood. She was IS. 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 at