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Show Few great men have paid moro enthusiastic en-thusiastic tributes to their wives than Tom Hood, and probably few wives have better deserved such homngo. "You will think," he wrote to her In ono of his letters, "that I am moro foolish thnn any boy lover; and I plead guilty. For never was a wooer so young of heart and so steeped In love as I; but It Is a lovo sanctified and strengthened by long years of experience. May God ever bless my darling tho sweetest, most helpful angel who over stooped to bless n man." Has thero over, wo wonder, lived a wlfo, to whom a more dollcato and beautiful tribute was pnid than, thoso verses, of which tho burden Is, "I love thee, I lovo thco, 'tis nil that I can say." "I want theo much " Nathaniel Haw-thorno Haw-thorno wroto to his wife, many years after his long patience had won for him the flower "that was lent from heaven to show the possibilities of tho human suL'J'Thou nro tho only person In thefcworid. that ever was necessary Xh. mHVnd now I am only myself when tnoV.art within my reach. Thou art ' an 'w4spenl:ably beloved woman." i Sophia Hawthorne was llttlo hotter than a chronic invalid; and It may bo that this physical weakness woko all tho deep chivalry and tenderness of the man. And ho reaped a rich reward re-ward for an almost unrivaled dovo-tlon dovo-tlon In tho "atmosphere of lovo and happiness and Inspiration" with which his delicate wlfo always surrounded htm. Tho wedded Hfo of Wordsworth with his cousin, "tho phantom of delight," was a poem more exquisitely beautiful than any his pen ever wrote. Mrs. Wordsworth was never fair to look upon, but sho had that priceless and rarer beauty of soul which mado her Hfo "a center of sweetness" to all around her. "All that she has been I to mo," tho poot onco said In his lat-tor lat-tor days, "none but God and myself can over know"; nnd It would bo difficult dif-ficult to find a moro touching and beautiful picture in tho gallery of great men's lives than that of Wordsworth Words-worth and his wlfo, both bowed under tho burden of many years and almost blind, "walking hand In hand togother In tho garden with all tho blissful ab sorption nnd tender confldenco of HH youthful lovers." 1 H It novcr needed "tho welding touch H of. a groat sorrow" to mako tho lives H of Arcliblshnp Tult and his devoted H wife "n perfect wholo." Speaking of jH her many yenrs after Bho had been H taken from him, ho said: "To part H from her, if only for n day, was a pain H only less Intense than tho pleasuro H with which I returned to hor; nnd jH when I took her with mo it was ono jH of tho purest Joys given to mnn to H watch the meeting between her nnd jH our children." Whan David Livingstone had passed M his thirtieth birthday with barely a M thought for such "an Indulgence as H wooing nnd wedding," ho declared H humorously that when ho was a llttlo H less busy ho would sond homo an ad- H vortlsemcnt for n wife, "preferably a M decent Bort of widow"; and yet so un- H consciously near .was his fato that H only a year latoj&io was Introducing M his brldo, Maryddnffat, to tho homo H ho had built, lnf&cly with his own H hands, at MabotsaV. From that "su- M prpmoly happy ho'iif" to tho day whon, M olghtcdh yonrs later, ho received hor M "last faint whisperings" at Shupanga, M no man evor had a more self-sacrl- H flclng, bravo, devoted wlfo than tho M missionary's daughter. H In fact, thoy wore moro llko two M happy, light-hearted children than so- M dato married folk, and under tho M magic of thoir merriment tho hard- M ships and dangers of Hfo in tho hoart H of tho dark continent wore stripped of 1 all their terrors. H Jean Paul Itlchter confessed that M ho nover ovon suspected tho potential- M lties of human happiness until ho met M Carollno Mayer, "that sweetest and H most gifted of women," whon ho wna H fast approaching his fortieth year; M and that ho had no monopoly of tho M resultant happiness Is proved by his H wife's declaration that "Ulchter Is tho H purest, tho holiest, tho most godliko H man that lives. To bo tho H wlfo of such a man 1b tho greatest H glory that can fall to a woman"; while J of his wlfo Rlchtor onco wroto: "I -,aH thought when I married her that I H had sounded tho depths of human H lovo; but I havo slnco realized how H unfathomablo is tho heart In which a H noblo woman has her shrino." H |