Show M II M M t M M H II M t M t M M H 6 M 1 t H M t M I M M M t 1 H M M M M M r GREAT E T MEN E WHO H WEDDED SERVANTS i I The y young dung man In ln society who caused hi his family great pain and anger the theother theother theother other day by marrying his servant girl can plead the excuse of many celebrated men as an extenuation or a Justification of his act says the Chicago Tribune There s 's was as William Corbett the great writer and the liberator of the press as he is ls called He was only 21 years of age when walking the streets of Halifax Nova ova Scotta Scotia one morning he chanced tasee to ta see a buxom r servant girl busily engaged in washing the family linen The girl v though only 13 years ears of ot age was pretty so Corbett spoke to her ber learned her hernam nama nam and the same evening called upon her parents and said he would like to marr marry their daughter S 1 I This is probably the origin of the expression This Is so sudden which blushing maidens have made use of ever since t J The parents of the girl Informed the young man that they had no objection to him as a son-in-law son but that he be have to wait walt until their daughter was vas of a marriageable age i Accordingly Corbett gave the girl all the money he had which amounted to rHO and she went to England and became a servant in the family of ot a clergy clergy- man Five years later Corbett returned to England and married her The late Sir Henry Parkes Premier of New South Wales Is another ex ex- ex- ex ample One night when dining at a friends friend's house he was struck by the appearance ap ap- ap- ap of a servant girl who waited at the table and persuaded his host to allow her to enter his employ This she did and for a B. short time held the position position post post- tion lion of cook In Sir Henrys Henry's household Then his love lo for her overcame all conventionalities conventionalities conventionalities con con- and he made her Lady Parkes Thomas Day the author of the famous book Sanford and Merton selected two girls one from a poorhouse and one from a foundling asylum and took them into his house as servants He proposed to both of ot them In turn One rejected his suit The other promised to marry him but withdrew her promise on account account account ac ac- ac- ac count of his eccentricities D Day y however admired the girls girl's courage and settled a dowry of 1500 upon her at the same time deciding to remain a bachelor Hut But more illustrious than all these examples Is that of Peter the Great One On day the founder of ot the Russian Empire the great and terrible Peter was dining at the house of Prince orr He noticed one of ot the serving maids particularly particularly parti parti- and though she was not handsome she caught the fancy Cancy of Peter I IH H Her r name the Prince told the Czar was Martha She had been a servant senant in the house of ot a Lutheran minister of Marienburg an and when that city was waa captured by the troops of ot Russia she had been taken prisoner by Gen Cen Bauer who had passed her over to the Prince whose serf she was The Count politely made a present of her to the Czar who eventually married mar roar rl nod ried d liar her renamed her Catherine and she reigned after acter him as Catherine I. I Empress Empress Em Em- press of all the |