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A MISMATED POET
The Tardy Marriage of Fitz¬
gerald and Lucy Barton.
A UNION PITIFUL, YET COMIC
Th» Coupl* Were Utterly Unsuited to
One Another, and He Fled From Her
During the Honeymoon—A Reunion
That Failed to Reunite.
The incidents leading up to and those
following the marriage of Edward
Fitzgerald, translator of the "Omar
Khayyam,” were of a ludicrous and at
the same time somewhat serious char¬
acter. Mr. Francis Gribble gave the
facts in the Fortnightly Review:
“The Lucy Barton story is very piti¬
ful, but it is also rather comic. She
was a Quaker’s daughter, who had
joined the Church of England as a
means, one imagines, of climbing the
social ladder, and she was just the
sort of person whom Fitzgerald would
esteem, but detest—prim, pious, me¬
thodical, fussy, not quite a lady and
yet in a weird provincial way world¬
ly, the sort of person to whom it seems
equally important to teach in the Sun¬
day school and to be a leader of so¬
ciety.
“Fitzgerald and she had known each
other for the greater part of their
liTes and were both nearly fifty years
of age when marriage overtook them.
He did not even know that he was en¬
gaged to her. But she told him that he
was, and he was too polite to contra
diet her.
“Politeness only broke down when,
after the ceremony, she assumed pro¬
prietorial airs and insisted that her
husband should pay afternoon calls
with her and dress for dinner. That
was the last straw, though very likely
it was also the first
“Fitzgerald supposed apparently that
in marrying Lucy Barton he had mere¬
ly acquired a housekeeper who would
know her place, who would confine
her new dignity to her housekeeper’s
room, leaving him as free as of old to
slop about in slippered ease, unkempt,
unshaven, enveloped in a dressing
gown until the evening, with books
all over the floor, pipes all over the
mantelpiece and tobacco ash all over
his clothes.
“It would not have mattered, of
course, if he had married for love and
If his bride had been a woman of
grace and charm. Such a one would
have changed all that like a fairy wav¬
ing a magic wand. But Fitzgerald had
only married ‘to oblige,’ and Mrs. Fitz¬
gerald was not in the least like a fairy.
She was more like a female drill ser¬
geant, conventional, stiff and starched.
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"Her flow of fussy small talk was a
nuisance, and her interruption of Fitz¬
gerald’s meditations with the demand
that he should shave and wear clean
linen assumed the proportion of a
tragedy in his eyes.
“He stood it for a fortnight and then
fled, leaving the honeymoon unfinished,
going off to stay with friends, bolting
like a rabbit for its burrow.
“There were a rennion and an at¬
tempt at reconciliation, but in vain.
Fitzgerald’s letters to his friends at
this period are like the letters home of
a boy who is being bullied at school.
“ ‘I believe,’ he writes to Professor
Cowell, ‘there are new channels fretted
In my cheeks with many unmanly
tears, and there really is no evidence
that he had anything to cry about be¬
yond the fact that he was being hus¬
tled out of a comfortable dressing
gown into a starched shirt with high
collars.
“That fact was symbolical of the
general discrepancy of tastes and
points of view. So we find him writ¬
ing again, ‘Till I see better how we get
on I dare fix on no place to live or die
in,’ and then before long came definite
separation and the drafting of a deed
of settlement.
“Fitzgerald, it is said, used long aft¬
erward to walk up and down a certain
garden path for hours together calling
himself a fool, and when in later years
he met his wife again he first put out
his hand and then changed his mind
and turned his back.”
Th* Scale* on the Hair.
If you look at a human hair under
the microscope you will find that its
surface is formed of successive over¬
lapping scales. The bristles of the hog
bear much resemblance to the human
hair, though their diameter is greater
and the tilelike scales are much finer.
Sheep’s hair has much coarser scales.
It is owing to the existence of these
scales that one is able by a peculiar
process to tell which is the tip and
which the other end of a hair rolling
it between his finger and thumb. Thus
manipulated the hair always travels
in the direction of the base because
the edges of the scales prevent it from
going the other way.
An Accommodating Chemist.
Chemist (to poor woman)—You must
take this medicine three times a day
after .meals.
Patient—But, sir, I seldom get meals
these 'ard times.
Chemist (passing on to the next cus¬
tomer)—Then take it before them.—
London King.
Not Playing Fair.
"What’s the matter with that child
now?”
“They're playing house and George
won’t let her go through his pockets.”
THE COVINGTON NEWS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1910.
FOUGHT TO A FINISH.
Tiger and Crocodile In a Battle In the
Water.
In India a native went to bathe in a
ravine. He was in the water up to
his neck when a tiger on the hill
above gave a leap toward its prey.
But the tiger had not calculated that,
since his victim was much lower than
himself, a leap of the right strength
for a horizontal range would carry
him far beyond his mark; consequent¬
ly he fell some ten feet on the other
side.
Now, It happened that a hungry croc¬
odile was at the same time drawing a
bee line under water toward the na¬
tive. When the crocodile had almost
come upon his prey lie heard a splash
Just in front and made a dash, bring¬
ing his enormous jaws down on the
tiger’s paw.
The bather nearly fainted with
fright when he saw the tiger fall into
the water, and for a few moments be
could not understand why the crea¬
ture did not devour him. Why did he
persist In keeping one of his paws un¬
der water, beating savagely with the
other? And the water turned red!
Then all at once the assaults of the
tiger became more furious, and his
growls developed into roars. The huge
tail of a crocodile reared up out of
the water. The obvious intention was
to pull the tiger under water and
drown him, and the tiger, understand¬
ing this purpose, tried to frustrate it
by beating the snout of the crocodile
with his other paw. But the snout
was too far down, and he left much
of his force on the surface of the wa¬
ter. His struggles became more and
more feeble, and at length he disap¬
peared altogether, only a cluster of
bubbles remaining to show where he
had been.
His fight, however, had been a game
one, not entirely in vain, for when
the bodies of the two beasts finally
came to the surface it was seen that
the tiger had literally torn away the
whole front of the crocodile’s face and
had blinded it so that its victory was
* useless one.—Chicago Record-Herald.
FALLING BODIES.
Their Velocity Varies According to the
Force of Gravity.
A man falling from a three story
building in New Orleans will not fall
as fast as he would if he were in New
York city. In fact, in hardly any two
places will he fall with the same
speed. This is because as we go to¬
ward the equator the force of gravity
gets less and less, and consequently
the acceleration of a falling body be¬
comes less, and the force of impact is
therefore less.
While it does not make very much
difference in the injury to a person
falling from a height, it does make a
difference in other things. Take a rifle
and fire it exactly horizontally, and if
the gun is sixteen feet above the
ground, say, at New York the bullet
fired from such a rifle will strike the
ground In exactly one second after it
leaves the rifle. If the bullet has a
horizontal velocity of 1,000 feet per
second it will strike the earth exactly
1,000 feet away. Let us take the same
rifle to a place where the force of
gravity is not the same as at New
York, but a good deal smaller, say
two-thirds smaller. We find that if
the gun is placed sixteen feet above
the ground, as before, and absolutely
horizontal the bullet will not fall the
sixteen feet in one second, but will
take over one and a half seconds to
fall, thus enabling the bullet to be in
the air during that length of time.
Therefore It will strike the ground
about 1,600 feet away. Thus it is seen
that the range of a rifle is increased
as it is taken toward the equator.
Of course there is no place on the
earth where the force of gravity is
two-thirds smaller than at New York,
but there are many places where the
difference Is considerable enough to
affect slightly the range of rifles.—Har¬
per's Weekly.
Tha Chicle Tree.
Chewing gum is nothing but chicle
mixed with sugar and flavoring, and
chicle is the gum of a tree that grows
plentifully in Mexico and Central
America and that of recent years has
been cultivated on a large scale in
Yucatan. The chicle tree is not unlike
the India rubber tree, and the gum
was first shipped to America by men
who believed that in it they had a per¬
fect substitute for rubber. In this,
however, they were mistaken, as it was
found that the chicle gum was insolu¬
ble. Not to this day has any medium
acid or alkali, spirit or ether been
found that will dissolve it.—Argonaut.
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Jane—I’ve something on me mind,
’Arry, that I hardly knows how to tell
yer.
’Arry—Abt wiv it
Jane—I’m afraid yer won’t marry me
if I tells yer.
’Arry—Aht wlv it.
Jane—I’m a somnambulist ’Arry.
’Arry (after prolonged pause>—Never
mind, Jane, it’ll be all right. If there
ain’t no chapel for it we’ll be married
at a registry.—London Punch.
A Good Actor.
"I see you have an actor employed
on the farm.”
"Yes, I put him on. He’s a darn good
actor too. I thought he was working
the first week he was here.”—Kansas
City Times.
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doing the little things, the common
duties, a little better and better—the
constant improving—that tells.
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American Beauty Corsets 25c to $1.50
W. B. Corsets $1.50 to $3.00.
We have a fine line of Shoes that
will fit your Foot and the Price will
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