Show FIRST MEETINGS OF FAMOUS LOVERS i curious ways in which they have met j their matrimonial fates there ageew moments hi a roans life which linger so long and so tenderly iu memory as that in which lib cyca first rested on the face of the woman who was destined to become his liec ion the harar of all his joys and borrows oh edward do look there did you ever see such a lovely face I 1 wonder who she can bo exclaimed mrs bulwer to glicr son at a literary gathering in ion don one day three quarters of a ry ago and the son turned his byca languidly in the direction his enoth er indicated to find them arrested by the most beautiful vision of girlish loveliness he had ever seen eliat glance of a moment scaled his fate for kosina wheeler became the wife of the young man who was later to be known to fame as lord lytton there was little that was romantic in the first meeting of acan the great tragedian and the lady who was to boar liis name it waa on the stage of tha cheltenham theater that charlca kean and liss chambers a pretty young actress first saw each other who is that the wife church bishop from with a grave and reverend minister I 1 saw a comely and modest gentlewoman standing at the door of eliat couo where we were invited to a wedding dinner and inquired of that worthy friend whether ho knew her yes he 1 I know her well and her for your wife cobbett a the world knows arst saw tho girl alio was to become such a devoted vicc when her arms were deep in soapsuds of 0 washtub the girl for the young soldier as lie then was and five years later alie anaid of tho washtub became mrs cobbett balzac was gazing through the window of a swiss inn when his reverie was broken by the sweet voice of a girl asking if he would allow her to remove her book from the window scat against which he was leaning alio lady was the princess hanski who later cowered dowered alic composer with her love and glicr riches when archbishop tato was first introduced trod to his future wife she was busily engaged in making the very pair L AW schoolgirl and hiis first love offering took alio llio welcome form of bread life romance began when lie scolded a tiny 9 spir od acero 0 o for forgetting the words of her part he made ample amends however for this unkindness when in later years I 1 ho rehearsed the marriage ceremony with shabby little man with the brilliant byest miss chambers asked in the hearing of alie king of the stage and who kean retorted by asking aloud is thai odd little woman from this singularly inauspicious opening keans love drama proceeded K swiftly that before a month biad gone the curtain was rung down at the altar scotts first passion took its brigia in a ehomer when tie gallantly his umbrella to a charming girl aa she wa church it was not long before the profyr of his umbrella was followed by the offer of hi hand which was ac equally graciously it waa at the first o of his sylvana at frankfort that weber tho famous composer met his matrimonial fate at the clow of the opera the applause was deafening and the delighted audience clamored loudly for the composer who overwhelmed by nervousness decline to show himself at this juncture aliss caroline brandt singing had contributed much to the success of the performance seized hold of webers hand and dragged him by main force before the curtain it wa with much reluctance that he held the anic hand later before tho altar describing his first meeting with hia ashyk S Q MM of slippers which unknown t 0 both of them he vai to wear during their honeymoon and the first glimpse liss rcck had of franklin was as ho pah bcd her house on his return from a bakers shop with a roll tucked under caich arm while ho was diligently cat jug a third lis giannes attention was first drawn to her future husband mr gladstone at the dinner table of a mutual friend take careful note that young man her neighbor to her for one day be will be prime minister of england warren hasting fuji a victim to he of baroness during a voyage to india ahen ho biad the misfortune io be taken ill and oved hi life to the tender nursing of the fair german iedy and dean buckland lost hit bicart while traveling by coach in the west of angland gland to a pretty young lady who he found was in lie vary same book in which he himself was reading the accidental discovery of a kindred taste suggested to tho young man possibilities which were richly re alicd when hiss became mrs the engineer was intro tobin wife when sho was a |