Show HUXLEYS WIFE When the Rattlesrake was in Sydney Syd-ney harbor the officers were invited to a ball and young Huxley among the I number There for the first time hemet whose resided met his future wife parents sided at Sydney A few days afterward after-ward they were engaged and the ship sailed for the Tower Straits to complete com-plete the survey of the north coast of Australia all communication being cutoff cut-off for months at a time and then she returned direct to England After that brief acquaintance not I believe longer than a fortnight it was seven years before the lovers saw one another an-other At the end of this time on Huxleys appointment to the School of Mines he was in a position to claim his bride and welcome her to their first home in St Johns Wood He often used to say that to engage the affections of a young girl under these circumstances knowing that he would have to leave her for an Indefinite time and with only the remotest prospect pros-pect of ever marrying was an act most strongly to be reprobated and he often held it out as a warning to his children never to do anything of the kind and yet they all married young and all happily Huxleys love at first sight and constancy con-stancy during those seven long years of separation were richly rewarded for it is impossible to imagine a pair more thoroughly suited I cannot help little incident which clings relating a lte cings to my memory though i happened full thirty years ago A rather cynical ind vulgarminded acauaintance of mine said to me one day I saw Huxley in a box at the Drury Lane theatre last night Can you tell me who was the lady with him After a few words of description I said Oh that was Mrs HuxleY Indeed he said I thouight it could not be his wife he was so very attentive to her all the evening As intimate friends knew they had at first many household troubles and care to contend with a large family of young children much illhealth and not very abundant means but through I all Huxleys patience I pa-tience and sweetness were admirable I The fierce and redoubtable antagonist in the battlefield of scientific or theological theo-logical controversy was all love and pentlcness at home The North Am rIcan rI-can Review |