Show SOME is not so blind as he is credited with being he is at least very short at times and little disposed to ake any thought for the morrow so as happiness is ensured thi vas undoubtedly Sou theys fatime of blind when one day in november be led Cole ridges sister in law the jk A SA A ATA TA A aava A A fair miss edith to the altar it was only by dint 01 saving even to the extent ot dispensing wilt many a days dinner that he vaa able to pay his wedding expense and BO empty was his purse waca lie had at lie was compelled to part from jus bride at the church door after the ceremony as he did not know where his nest meal was to come from coleridge was almost equally improvident fur a few weeks 01 an ideal honeymoon in a ruttie cottage in tha libau of the country he loved so well be aw poverty staring in at him through the lattice panes his small stock of money was cuifo exhausted and many years of struggle and privation followed on the heels of hia brief dream of happiness a tiie story of leigh hunts domestic Is better known perhaps ha was the most unpractical ot men and his mii 0 was almost as unworldly as himself and their 0 condition is generally considered io have been one of chronic financial difficulties happily lii had many good friends one of was hid neighbor who whenever he a isit irom hunt would leave a sovereign or 0 o lying cx aused on thu so as io make iho inevitable borrowing boi rowing as easy as poa sible many pallie tic stories are told of the privation ot and his young wito during their early married years mo wilfully wedded a penniless girl against the advice ot hi 1 saying proudly 1 I have that within me whick will enable me to support the woman I 1 love but poverty was long an unwelcome guest in their house before fame discovered their address and bot only was the family cupboard often bare but more than once they were caught dancing together to keep themselves warm when there were no coals in the house wagner was just as confident of his powers to support a wife as when at the age of twenty six he married a beautiful but penniless singer and yet within few wareka of his honeymoon we find him declaring that the two things lie coveted most on earth were a warm overcoat and some firewood for twenty years it was a des berato tight for bare existence and many a time they would have gone hungry to bed ff it had not been for the ot liszt and a few other arienda iri enda 1 s the great actor never dad a uwe da thing when he faced alio altar with a smiling face and an yi compall told of a week so poor was lie that when he secured an engagement at leeds he would tramp to york covery saturday night to spend a feu hours wife starting on his i el urn journey as the clock struck i on night in later years aie hud drunk deeply of the cup of fur anu unu bhim bis wife was no longer ditl him to st it he exclaimed al I 1 was much happier then on eighteen a week with her to share it ain I 1 am now with half the house lor every t llin und fians purse was so empty an 1 ie eve 0 his wedding that he had to borrow linka sovereign from a friend to fay for rile it was only the generosity of the landlady of ditc dog that he was able to lait braile a b tini lej Hlat liew the king of corn fittin had such infinite faith in him af anil perhaps even more such an love for miss strong that retook rt ook alio responsibilities of mariea life on a eckand smiled when us taic ads a honeymoon in he workhouse and yet during the four short of their married life no couple in were more perfectly happy when john scott known to fame in later years as lord eldon ran away with miss the bankers beautiful if wayward daughter his purse was so slender that he had reached the bottom oi it on the third day of his hon and was la the predicament of having no biome to go to and of not knowing whether our would fiver speak to again shelley had a dimitar experience when as a boy of nineteen he eloped with hid sisters school friend miss westbrook bufore the runaway couple had got as far as york on their dav to edinburgh they found themselves parting with their last shilling and the too ardent lover had to appeal to to send him 10 pounds to relieve a slight pecuniary distress waa surely never a bride and bridegroom mure impecunious than flagman and his bravo young wife even his best friends declared that ho was n mined man from the rosment tie etoia before the altar and id is arr that for some time starvation was never far from hia door but sirs flaxman determined that if her husband was to be ruined it should not be through her and she practiced her economies so skillfully fully that within five years she had saved sufficient money to enable him to study the borka of his great predecessor in rome |