The evening world., 1912-03-15
Historic
Heartbreake
BY Albert Payson Terhune.

oov,an. 1912 By r. r~.p ua.As Co. IN. lew Ya World.
No. A-ROBERT ~BURNS-The Poughn1an LOUe"iake1.
-iLANcE over an index o. Robert Burnss Poems; notice the multi
tue of his love lyrics; then recall purnss own statement J.
every On Of these was written to some real woman d ~ ""
His family name q not BURNS" but Burmese" ne ,sm..
form Of It was borne by Roberts father, a poor Scotch farmer. TN poe
who a one day to make the humber phases of Scottish life immortal
spent his first years in bitter grinding toll hborins In ~ he'a rs. !, s.p pS' y
boy. picking UP q smaHering OF education a best he could. he nated. =
existence he led as a lad and he never wholly forsave Fate Tor It, A""
he wrote:
This kind Of life. the cheeress gloom Of a hermit and the uncsas'ns
toll Of = galley slave brought me to my sixteenth year"
incidentally. this kind Of life" wrecked his nerves, injured his health
and taught him to turn to liquor for comfort. He also found tina. he could
. .s%sssn ay , s%rt.s I'M s,i xSmsa t, to f s I'm, nrs i've is with If" md '"''''' ''' : T"
It 4. the the f ns "a affair D' Of as Ss which mi IL IL. recorded res and it wa followed by . many
s n n. % o%% pe~sr ss' a%sr. ss sa0 women n . drawback %s s% tn ,% annn G''1
: !: ::;::: s:ss; ,: s; =" ; $: :.: E; ; z : :.: "a: :; : . . :" :. off u .. . '. .. ..
sur-. NM ~. w.. ., .os with ss1 h% when no, he s va; ;s ss.eay ws St OF no, this have s~ his
a.ush,er throw way her life On . pennies: verse .s :.r'ss s,s,. wo had .%. n s :. ,:s:
ss q u ,.: saa%ss 's ss BURNS r. I N despair ma. = ready e :%s%s . = ".
.as.a.a: Il scored :: S.t : instant . . ,s Burns: gave " n
most brilliant society came the youn. pioushman poet He val toasted eng
with Il, poems" wrote Heron. odd n youns grave and gay. learned
in . Win him, where onc his: rough strength an. nd. s Ss,' looks Ok, 1 had ::.s,
But hi. popularity s%1Sr a." a. nees to last t"I He ~ss gifted neither with polish nor 10
His Il ' sSs ', s11ns,ss s" ssss:: s s:' .ssass'.s MIN s%. ali |: i: ssss ssS .,s:e +.
FOLK around hin. il !: .hannss where : had bee. so"'s ed. Proud (
' ~Ss s%n he he. 's it. ss''i H ss grew s'% Sas,r IA" ana 'f %slan s !" and s's DRANK harder "sss: .sss,
a me'. beautiful ea ia by S'" q nsr strain: strain et Sadness srsa o his o"n uHnspa6::: and
strengthened by a mote ~ savage satire.
Meantime he had plunged into a poetcai filtration with Mary Campbell
Highland Mary"-whose death years later nearly broke his hearO with whom
he exchanged BEIes instead Of I'M There a also rather serious affair
with Mary Morrison" who inspired SON OF his best love
A Ao.% 40 songs, and whose real a m Is said to have been EniOn
Begie Margaret Chalmers n Charlotte Hamilton and
a host Of others followed In quick succession. After
~~~~~~~~S which, In 178. Burns ent back to Jean Armour. who
had long before been forced by her father to reject the poets suit Now tho
course Of so-caned true love" raj smoother and tn couple were married.
This union with his otdtme sweetheart did not prevent Burns soon aNerward
from gradousy accepting the alteration o. Anna Park IN Mrs.. Wholpdaie
Ito whom his "Chlons' verses we're wrNter) and of many another.
A. in the cas- Of Byron and Shelley and Keats and similar poetic genuss
Burnsis strange life wore Itself to an en- while he was still a young MAJ.
Early in July. 1885, when he "a ut tMrty-seven. he wa reported dymg. On
July IL he wrote to his cousin begging the loan Of $50 to prevent him from
Scotland and all the civilized world mourned loudly for the wonder man