| Show j PERSISTED IN THEIR WOOING Notable Men Who Did Not Win Their Wives by the Simple Asking When men of distinction assume tho mole of lovers It Is not always smooth enlllng for thorn Somo have met with S frequent rebuffs but they porslwlfd In their lovemaking and ultimately won An amusing and characteristic story irt 1 told of Lord BnicoiiHtlcId In tho days when ho WJ if wooing Mrs Lewis to whom In latir yours or married life ho was BO touchingly I devoted On tIny Mrs Lewis who was then living liv-ing In rralrement nt hor cat In CJIumor gunsUiIrc BUV a gentleman wnlkliVg IclH unl up the drive Jane she exclaimed to an old servant 4l really bHIovo thut horrid man Disraeli Is coming up the t drive Do please run to tho door and NO lni not at home JonI opened thll door to tho undesired Liillor anti gravely announced her mes mage I know Disraeli coolly answered but tak my bag to a 1 bedroom and prepare pre-pare luncheon 1 will wait till Mrs Lewis in ready J to como downstairs which of coun Mrs JjwlK felt compelled to doa do-a fen minutes later S Oh ilinr what cum 1 do with such an S nbitln < iu > thlckfklnncd tnicn the widow asked dtsporatoij Inter In tho day when Dlsrj ll showed no sign of raining the ting Marry him J suppose ma am was Junes philosophic niiswor and us the world knows the persistent wooer had his way In the end In this as in most S other things In life An > man can marry any woman Vol tilr ono eynletlb declared If he only 4 pursues her long enough This at any 1 rule was the experience of Jacob Hall 1 I du > u wellknown character In the north 4 of England u couple of generations ago Never did n lover win a wife Under such dlKcouraghig condlllona us Jacob for after his llrht proposal he was soundly liorsiwhlppid bj the young Indyn father Ii and clucked In a convenient pond Ill auk her ne ln next year Jacob 1 spluttered as ho emerged from his bath the fire of hip passion not ono whit quenched by his cold clouch Regularly one it year on the anniversary anniver-sary of bin Ural proposal and Immersion NlcholPon nays In his biography of Mr JInlllduy Jacob nlllrcd himself In his Uncut raiment and presented l his petition peti-tion always with the same negntlvo result re-sult When he presented lilinHilf now a middleaped man for tho twentyfourth time the lady greeted his appearance with u peal of laughter Its no 10oil Jacob I nee Hhc exclaimed 1 may as well gle In now OK later but what a fainthearted creature the Importunate widow wuo compared com-pared with you Sheridan took t nn equally bold course when ho sought to win tin fairest of tho beautiful daiwhters of Llnley tho composer com-poser of Bath who was strongly opposed to the suit of the brilliant young poet and dramatist Ills lady love too wan besot by an army of suitors many or them far more eligible parties than the penniless law student The circumstances called for hold and dcclslvo action After threatening to destroy de-stroy hImself If the lady refused his advances ad-vances and righting a couple of duels with one of his most formidable rivals Sheridan took tho bold step of running away with Miss Llnloy and conducting her to a French nunnery whcro she re maln d In confinement until succumbing to her lovers daring and persistence she consented to marry him An English Judge not long deceased UHWl to tell a diverting story of his wooing woo-ing In those days he was II struggling and obscure barrIster without even the prospect of nn Income and tho lady upon whom ho had set his affections was tho Imightrr of a pun > eproud tradesman with a highsounding flume who was strongly I opnowod to giving his daughter to a penniless lawyer Do you know sir the father thundered thun-dered when he wn8 inked for his daughters daugh-ters hanrJt1o you know Mir that my daughters uncos lorn have all been noblemen noble-men and that ono of them was a favorIte Mlnlntcr of Queen Elizabeth 7 Oh yes 1 know nil that the young barrlplur placidly answered and ilo you know that Queen Elizabeth onco slapped your ancestors face and unions you arc more civil I will do the same for you It Is scarcely surprising thut ao bold and daring u lover hud his way In tho end even In the face of such a barrier i of shortly noble ancestors Tho late Prlnco Bismarck It In Raid won his wife by a similar coup de muln Although he hnd not known tho licly of his lovo moro than a few days and her parents were not even aware of his existence exist-ence ho presented himself ono day beforo them I and boldly 1 naked permission to marry their daughter In vain the father fumed and blustered audI threatened to havo tho youmr man forcibly ejected from tho house for his Impertinence f um sorry to annoy you sir the young soldier said but I must respect fully decline to leave the liouso until I havo your consent Xor did he 1 although the consent was given In those ungracloui words Well 1 nuppono you must have your wny but I cannot compliment mv daughter on her choice of a mulo for a husband Chicago 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