The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-06-25
Court Gossip of Interesting
Events on Two Continents

the fool Thus We find many great and
notable men either making their choice
very carefully or never marrying at all
Michael Angelo is reported to have said
Il have espoused my art, and il occa-
sions me sufficient domestic cares, for
my works are my children"
Sir Joshua Reynolds. the painter, never
would marry. for fear that he might
be withdrawn from his studies Angelica
Kaufman and he used to paint each
others portraits, and this was sufficient
for society to couple their names to-
gether.
The late Lord Leighton told the Prin-
cess Of Wales, who. with the prince. was
inspecting the artists pictures, that he
had never married because he could not
find sufficient time TO devote to a wife.
Sir Isaac Newton once went wooing.
and began to smoke; absent-mindedly
lady for a pipe-stopper. This brought
his courtship to an abrupt termination,
and he never had another.
1t was for a not less trifing reason.
as most people would think, that Beau
Brummel broke of his engagement to
marry. When asked why, he replied,
What could l do, my dear fellow, but
cut the connection? / discovered that
Lady Mary actually ate cabbage"
Cowper loved his first cousin, and she
loved him, but her father forbade the
marriage on account of the relationship.
1t is said that this disappointment was
what first deranged the poets mind. The
lady remained constant TO him, preserv-
ing with tender care all tine loye-poems
he had written TO her under the name of
Della. Throughout the whole of his life
he never seriously thought OF marrying
after his first misfortune with his cousin.
The Jersey Bride was the friend, but
not the sweetheart, of Goldsmith. He
never married, though on one occasion ne
was with difficulty dissuaded from unit
ing himself with a needlewoman who
he wished to oblige.
John Berridge was not so good natured.
for he would not enter the holy state
even TO oblige a rich lady. She wrote
him that II had been revealed to her that
she should marry him. Berridge replied
that. il this were the case, the Lord
would have made similar revelation to
him; but that. on the contrary. he had
been warned distinctly not to take to
himself a JezebeL
Thompson. the poet of the Seasons"
had not sufficient money to marry Miss
Young whom he celebrated as Amanda,
so that the lady was lost to poetry in all
senses. and gained by the navy, for she
married a Vice Admiral.
Samuel Rogers did not marry. though
he was fond of the society of ladies, and
a favorite with them. In his latter years
he used to regret not having done so.
Rogers nearest approximation to the
ruptial tie was with a girl whom he
believed to be the most beautiful he had
ever seen. At the end Of the London
season she said to him at a ball, Il go
tomorrow to Worthing." He did not go
with her. Some months afterwards, be-
ing at Ranelagh. he saw that the atten-
ton of every one was drawn toward
large party that had just entered, into
the center OF which was a lady leaning
on the arm of her husband. Stepping
forward to see this beauty. he found she
was his lost love. She merely said: You
never came to Worthing."
FLANECR.