The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-04
THEY JILTED FAMOUS MEN

of them, Maria (the original Of Dora III "David Copperfield'D, who was year HIS senior lie immediately fell in love, ana Maria firted with him very desperately. But the love making of the future novel; ist was not treated very seriously, TOT he was not considered by any means an ehsi- ble party, and even Maria herself adoptea an attitude of amused tolerance
 For three years the affair went on, ana then Dickens realized that his case was hopeless. He pleaded in vain with the girl, whose caprices maddened and sidu dened him alternately, for, as matter u fact, Maria Eeadnell was Wiliful eo- quette. The end of it all was a reply that held out no hope, and so the parths came. For % years they saw no more ol one another Ultimately Maria Beadnei was married to Henry Louis Winter and when Dickens met her again time had wrought sad havoc on his youthful ideal. Mrs. Winter wrote to her old lover, but Dickens did not care to renew a corre- | spondence with his old sweetheart Then MT. Winter failed, and the chagrined wife appealed to the lover of her grlhood for help, but without avail, and the romance ended long before Mrs. Winters death in 1886.
 A curious fact regarding the jilting of famous men is that through piaue they have occasionally been led into marriages which have resulted in the utmost mis- cry for both husband and wife. There was John Rus1in, for instance, who fell in love as a boy with the beautiful Rose ,1. ba x1Fttb romances and dramas and mute worship, receiving nothing in return but chilly in- difference and lively ridicule. The result was that at the age of % he married lady of great beauty, Miss Grey, of family long intimate with the Ruskins. The marriage, we are told. was a some what hurried act, and brought no happi- ness to either, and six years afterward 1t was dissolved.
 Then there Is the case of Lord Byron, who was led into his unhappy matrimo- nial alliance with Miss Milbanke, only daughter and heiress of Sir Ralph Mll- bapke, through being rejected by an- other young lady. He had proposed to the latter. and, as he said to a friend It seems that it is to be Miss Mlbanke
 
 fatal letter, handing 1t to his friend for perusa. "A very pretty letter." his friend remarked, after reading it; 'it is pity that it should not go' And it shall goi' exclaimed Byron, and thus opened one of the most tragic chapters of his chequered life story.
 According to the biography of the Iron Chancellor" published in 1909, Bismarck, when he was 21 years of age, paid ardent court to a charming English girl, Miss Russell, to whom he ulti- mately became engaged. He first met Miss Russell at Wesbaden in company with her uncle and aunt, the Duke and Duchess of C., and Bismarck made no secret of his tender fondness for the blonde of unusual beauty.
 The engagement, however, was soon broken off, and those who have studied the life of Bismarck assert that Miss Russell, recognizing the differences in their life and station, threw Bismarck over. Proof of this seems to be fur nlshed by the fact that Bismarck took the broken engagement very much to heart, and for long time was very mel l ancholy and depressed.