Evening star., 1946-08-25
Fifty Years Ago
The Star on August IL, 1896, quoted
Blackwoods Magazine on the heart af-

blackWoods Magazine on the heart af-
fairs of the greatest of
beefhoyens composers as follows:
Romonces Beethoven never mar
ried. But 1t was from
no defect of sensibility that the
tribulations which were distributed
among many successive housekeepers
were not heaped upon the devoted head
OF wife. II love be disease, Beethoven
was always i'll or at best but GONZALES
cent. No less than 40 ladies save four
has he immortalized by his dedications
to them. To Bettina Won Arnim-
Goethe's Bettina-for whom he long
cherished hopeless passion, he once
said, after trying over composition
which he had just written: I made that
for you. You inspired me with it. saw
it written in your eyes, and this is but
specimen of the gallantries to which
he was addicted. Twice at least he pro-
posed-on one occasion to the lady who,
as he found to his modification, was
already the f1ancee of his friend Hum
mel. That marriage would have saved
him from good many worries is GER
tain enough, for it must be allowed that,
as Emil Nauman delicately puts it, he
did not possess any aptitude for house.
hold management
A cable from London to The Star of
August 13. 1896, announced the passing
of Sir John
Deoth OF Everett Millais,
Celebrated Pointer president of
the r Roya
Academy of Arts. The dead man was de-
scribed as "the most distinguished Eng
lish painter of the present day" and
''the first artist of the British Empire
titles by which half century later he
still might be known, if essential merit
were the accepted standard of judg-
ment. In association with Dante Gabriel
Rossetti and William Holman Hunt, he
was founder of the famous Pre-
Raphaelite school, pledged Ito restore
to art the simplicity, truth and earnest
ness which characterized the early
Christian painters and which had
been lost under Raphael and his con-
temporaries and successors" Millais
himself was, primarily, great drafts
man. He drew with marvellous accuracy
and fidelity. But he likewise was mas
ter Of color-perhaps the most notably
competent who ever has lived in modern
times. The last portion of his career
was blighted by ill-health. Cancer of
the throat was the cause of his death,
and The Stars obituary explained that
the disease was produced by inordin-
ate smoking"
How presidential candidates wife
dresses during y campaign was de-
scribed in The Star
Political for August IA. 1896,
Foshjon Note in passage read
ing: Mrs. William
Jennings Bryan has evidently brought
trunkloads of clothes for wear during
her Eastern trip. and her selections,
judging by what she has already worn,
are in excellent taste. Yesterday morn
ing, for breakfast and to receive early
visitors, she wore ecru muslin, ruffled
with white lace. Little bows of white
taffeta ribbon nestled among the frills
and enc at the back of her lace collar
looked like butterfly. A single Ameri-
can beauty rose was stuck in her white
ribbon sash, tied in long bow with
ends at the back. For the reception later
on, she wore stylish combination of
black silk crepon, as thin almost as
grenadine. and shot gray-blue taffeta
The latter formed the background, pro-