The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1913-04-19


Lips that curve deliciously. wildly car
mine. hiding Hogarth's four line OF beauty:
challenging. imperous tender; eyes that are
tender, tawny shadowy, tigerish one moment
the eyes of Artemis OF the Arcadians. and
the next those OF the brooding Juno OF the
Romans. sometimes dangerously alert. some
times indolently museful, quiescently sorrow
full, yet opalescent always. with dormant and
dangerous fires: hair that is golden. heavy,
luxuriant. like that OF Homer's Helen: a neck
Ike the daughter or Diana, supple. full
throated. towerlike brow rather low and
broad, not unlike Venus OF Milo. with the
GOODNESS OF he classic profile. endeared and
humaniZed by n womanish dmple: tall. in
truth tall as daughter OF the gods tall
enough 10 have delighted OF those old
Greeks who left their broken dreams Of
beauty in the Parthenon OF the Athenian
Acropos: tempestuous subdued. affectionate,
tyranncal. loving, incoagr@oas. inscrutable-
the last strange gift OF the gods-a lovely
woman"
SO he wrote OF her. and OF course she married
him. What woman would not wed man Who
declared himself upon such platform as that?
They we're married and lived happily for a
wear or two: might have lived happily ever after
But Mr.. Str!nger would write. Their first quarrel
occurred because OF line she discovered in his
manuscript. She had glanced at II 10 see shat
nothing was amiss in her lords spelling pune
tuation when she encountered this:
Ugly women make the best matches The
beauty attracts the sort OF man who marries
actresses or show girls. the kind who likes
TO display his matrimonial spoils"
II. Mrs. Stringer said. looking al him with ewes
that were "tavny. shadowy. tigerish the eyes
of Artemis OF the Arcadians." whom have you
quoted here?"
The author looking up from the pipe INSOFAR
able from his work. responded. "''From your lord
and master, my dear"
But in your apostrophe OF me. written before
our marriage. you declared a lovely woman is the
last great gift ~ the gods Which do you mean"
IL must be said. unromantlc climax 10 their WOO
ing hat y was, that the poet first chuckled then
settling into a big chair by the fire. fell into an
Indifferent but loud slumber.
Mrs. Stringer played an emotional role pass
ing from tears 70 rage Could her sleeping spouse
have seen her he would have acknowledged that
he wrote the truth when he said her ewes ara
"tgerish.' But brief II the storm in early mar
ried life. and Mrs. Strnger forgot. or seemed
10 forget. No woman ever does forget
Like most poets Arthur StrinEer could make
love as though he We're horn 10 n. And he did
II Mrs Stringer asked the feminine and vIfeIy
question DO YOU still love me-" he would answer
u VIII adore Won until the last drop % blood hos
passed from my heart" or in phrase equally
poetical and impossible
Ne' there would stare A. his wife from = pare
~ magazine In an article signed By her iiegs
the traitorous sentiment.
mo should plume herself on =
poots love. To him she is merely the key
that unlocks his Imagination"
With finger on the telltaie page and tawny
eyes flashing The authors wife would say. DO
ply. with a smile designed 70 be engaging. Dear
os. does not man always mean what he
writes"
"Thon he doesn't mean what he says," she
would demand Again she received the unsatia
fving response ~ a chuckle followed ~ a snore
when she wore a handsome Paris crea-
ton" he would say My darling, love you