Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1915-10-28
QUEER AFF|N|T|Es.
Love Plays Some Curious Franks
With Human Hearts.
ROUSSEAU AND HIS THERESA.
story Of a Genius Who Welded an 10.
norant Kitchen Maid and Mover Rs'
prs,ted it--Huiwsr Lytton's Tragic
up,op--Tsohalkows and Fate.

norant Kitchen Maid and Mover Re-
prs,ted it--Buiwer Lytton's Tragic
unlon--TsohaIkowsky and Fate.
Some, ailinities really defy cxplana
tlon. Take Rousseau as m Instance.
a distinguished writer has snid:
I'm tho whole story OF tho human
race question II there IL anything 10
wonderful an tho prolonged affection OF
Rousseau for Theresa
Here was one Of the outstanding H.
erary geniuses OF his time. n man who
could talk on equal terms nt least with
the most brilliant women OF his day.
marrying kitchen maid. who never
could be taught 10 read with ease. who
could not follow tho order OF tho twelve
months Of the year or count u sum OF
money or reckon the price OF a thing
Even months instruction left her still
unable 20 rcad the hours on the clock
face.
Theresa 10 vasseur could never have
given Rousseau one hour Of true com
.s,nionship. She could neither have
read his books nor have understood
him when he explained them She was
even without beauty and grace, Yet
this mighty spirit chose her. loved her
and went on loving her. The alliance
lasted happily. for by some mysterious
spell she held him. and after twenty
Ave years Rousseau could write 10 her:
II never had. my dearest. other than
one single solace. but thnt the sweet
est II was to pour out all my heart
In yours. Ny every resource. my whole
confidence h In you. and In you only"
Herr was mystery indeed.
Ruiwer Lytton. the novelist, provid.
"a another OF the matrimonial mystic
ries. Lytton was one OF the sanes'
men In ordinary matters. hut he was
foolish enough TO marry vulgar girl
Rosina Wheeler. who proved 10 he
wastcful. improvldent and wretchcd
housckecper. The marriage ended mis-
erably. and all through her life Lady
Lytton pursued her husband with the
tierrest rancor. She published book
after book IN which she held him up
as monster and did everything IN her
power 10 render his life unhappy.
She made herself the heroine" of n
most extraordinary episode on the dny
when Lyiton. then colonial secretary,
was reelected by his Hcrtfordshlre
constituents He was IA the middle
OF his address when there advanced a
fcmnlc with rpured face aud dyed
hair. brnndlshing n yellow umbrella,
Mounting the hustlngs, Lady iytton-
for II waa she salutcd the newly made
minister with:
"Fiend villain. monster cOwardly
wretch. outcast, lAnm told you have
been sent TO the coloncs II they
knew ns much about You as ! do they
would have sent you there long axe"
For once Lytton's presence OF mind
failed him. or, rather he inintcd. ana
knew no more till he found himself
back at Knebwor,h In bed Husband
and wife had not seen each other for
twenty-five years before this, aud they
never met again.
Probably tho most mysterious OF all
marriages was that OF Tschaikovsky,
the great Russian composer, whose
pathetic" symphony In such a favor
ito I'm the concert room today. Tschai'
kovsky was a moody. pessimistic. shy,
reserved man. As be said himself. he
had lived for thirty-seven years "in
antipnthy to marriage" and then was
made bridegroom by sheer force OF
circumstances without being In the
least charmed by the bride" 1t Ii one
Of the queerest stories Imaginable. M
told by Tschaikovsky himself.
He says that ono day he received q
letter from a poor girl whom he had
known for some time. She declared
her love for him In the most passionate
terms. He went the next evening to
see her aud told her that he could give
her nothing but sympathy and graft
tudc. Later when he had thought u
over he feared that Antonlnn might
make way with herself. 80 he went