The Washington herald., 1913-12-27

| George Washing was Tilted three
times by colonial girls who thought they
could do better. Mary Philiipse was his
first love, a beautiful and ardent Tory
| who might have changed history had she
accepted him. She married Lieut.. Col
| Morris, and their house in MorristowI
| became Washington's headquarters II
| 1776, the owner and his wife being fugitive
| Tories.
washington's second love was Miss
Betsey Fauntleroy, the Lowland beauty,
of whoa he writes that he is soon TO see
her. and hopes for a revocation OF her
former cruel sentence"
Mary Carey. the third Colonial dame
| to reject the future Father of His Coun-
try, while some claim "the LowIand
| beauty who Tilted him was Lucy Grimes.
who married Henry Lee and became the
mother of Light Horse Harry (of whom
Washington was so fond). and grand
| mother Of Robert .. Lee.
Lincoln Snubbed by First Love.
Abraham Lincoln was snubbed by the
! first girl he courted. and she married
| man whose verJ name is now for
gotten.
Garfield was Tilted by a young girl
| whose family wished her to marry a man
W l better prospects.
Miles Standish was refused by Priscilla
for meek John Alden.
John Wesley's love affairs were one
long series of disappointments First was
Miss Betty Kirkham. sister of his friend.
Robert kirkham, who. after three years
| correspondence, turned the reformer
down. In Georgia he was smitten with
Sophia Hopkey, and he placed the matter
| before the elders of the Moravian Church,
who commanded, Proceed no further in
| this business" Grace Murray, a young
| widow. rejected him and married a wooer
named Bennett. Il love you a thousand
times better than Bennett" she wrote to
Wesley. but II don't marry him will
| run mad" In the end he married Mrs.
Va.ielle, widow of a London merchant.
| whose violent temper and absurd jealousy
| placed the founder OF Methodism among
t! first Of historic henpecked husbands.
William Cowper formed an early at
tachment with his cousin. Theodore Jane
Cowper. The fathers refusal to sanction
the union not only clouded his future
| prospects, but affected him with a de-
preston Of spirits from which he suffered
! all his life: but for Mrs. Unwin, the
Mary" of his poems he would have sue
cumbed entirely.
Fielding First Loved Cousin.
Henry Fielding's affections also went
out to cousin, Sarah Andrews, whose
| friends turned her against him, and
Fielding took her loss so much to heart
that he plunged into a life of reckless ex-
cesses. He married Charlotte Craddock,
squandered her money, broke her heart,
and she soon sank under the privations
OF poverty and his neglect Of her Her
death awakened HIM, adversity spurred
him on. and his teeming brain enriched
English literature. He married Mary
Mcdaniel. his wifes maid, but what
might Fielding have become had he been
allowed to marry his first love?
Edward Gibbon. author of the Decline
and Fall of the Roman Empire" had his
engagement with the Swiss Miss Murchod
broken of by his father. mainly on ac-
count of his sons health. On his return
to England Gibbon wrote: After a
painful struggle / yielded to my fate:
sighed as a lover. but l obeyed as a son."
The disappointment made Gibbon a sad
and sour man all his life.
Goes Insane Over Hin.
Turner. the great painter, during a
prolonged absence from home had his
letters intercepted by his fiancee's step
mother. who disliked the match. On his
return he found his betrothed engaged to
another, to a man whom she did not love,
but she could not break off. because the
WeOulnS udN Ddu DGen lAtu. anu sue Icil
in honor bound to keep her promise.
Turner remained singh.
Laurence Sterne was an erratic genius.
Catherine Furmantal scorned him, but
when he rose to fame she would have
him, but he had another, Miss Lumley,
and so Catherine went crazy and died in
an asylum in Paris.
Walter Scott was rejected for farmer
laddie, and woman now unknown miss
ed having her name linked with Scot
lands surprising genius. He later mar
ried Charlotte Margaret Carpenter. How
ever, he never forgot his first love, at
twenty-four. but his biographies are sill
ent As to her name.
Goethe, at fifteen, fell in love with
Gretchen. daughter of an Offenbach inu-
keeper, but she looked upon him as
big BOBBY and sent him OF blubbertng.
His next love affair was with the daugh-
ter of a wine merchant Kitty Schon-
kopf, who inspired his first one-act
drama, Lovers Quarrels," but she. too
sent him about his business. His af-
fections then fell on Frederica Brion. OF
Sesenhefm, near Strassburg, where he at
tended university lectures. She dis
missed him, though she never married,
saying that the heart that Goethe loved
should not belong to another.
Lily Schoneman then enthralled Goethe,
and only for the opposition or his fam1ly
he would have married he-. In rapid
succession he had romances with the
Countess Augusta, Charlotte Won Stein,
and Christina Volpius, who became the
mother of his children, but whom he did
not marry until 1906. The last Of all Of
the old gallant's loves was Mariana Won
Willeman, who dominated his mind from
the time he was siXty-five until the day
of his death.
Byron's First Love.
Mary Ann Shaworth was Byron's first
love; she refused him, and her marriage
to John Musters saddened his whole life.
Byron worshipped at SO many shrines
that to call the roll is rather tedious
but We may mention in passing Flor
ence Smith, who inspired certain verses
in ''Childe Harold Teresa Maori, the
subject of the Maid of Athens" Lady
Brooke Lamb, and Jane Clairmont. He
married Anna Milbanke. He declared she
married him from vanity, and she de-
clared he married her for revenge. Had
he married his first love, all might have
been well with Byron.
Dean Swift sought in vain for the hand
of Miss Waring. 'Varina.'' he wrote,
may love make you a while forget your
temper to do me justice. Only remember
IL you still refuse to be mine you will
quickly lose him that has resolved to die
as he has lived" She refused. But four
years later she thought more kindly of
him, and wrote intimating that she had
reconsidered her decision. Swifts reply |
was brutal. He asked her il she was In |
a condition to manage domestic affairs |