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Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2388, 29 October 1887, Page 1 (Supplement)

Lady Burdett Coutts is said to have been received hack into Queen Victoria’s favour. Since her marriage to her youthful husband the Baroness has been persistently snubbed at court. Love-Makixo ik a Newspaper.— There lives in New York, said a recent importation from the East, a newspaper man who is a striking illustration of what love making through thepapersraay accomplish. He ia now a grey bearded man of leisure, but years and years ago he was a struggling young editorial writer on a western paper. Ho wrote with a good deal of earnestness on sentimental topics. Having conceived an earnest, devoted, absorbing love for a young lady, and knowing that she was greatly interested in certain lines of work and thought, he managed to put his heart in bis editorials for her benefit. I do not mean that he did not write for the public, but that he wrote for the public better because of the warmth in his heart towards the woman he loved, At the same time he was carrying forward an ideal character in a series of sketches. He had pictured this young lady so plainly that many recognised her as the heroine of his romance. But so tenderly, so delicately was the subject handled, that anyone might have felt flattered at all that was said. In fact, the lady herself was in the habit of saying that she was content to be regarded as the character so finely pictured. But in time the heroine was carried towards the hero of the story in a way to leave open the question of her regard, and then the sketches were broken off. At this time the writer was the bluest man I ever saw. He told me he had come to a crisis in his affairs. He had carried the discussions in his editorials to a point where he was in danger of showing to the public his attachment to the ideal who had inspired all of his work on that line. He could not take the story of his sketches without hinting at a denouement that might he offensive to the lady who had been kind enough to he pleased with his picture of the ideal woman. There was only one way out of the trouble, aad that was to tell the object of his love how highly he regarded her. He did this in one of the most beautiful letters that I have any recollection of, and in six months his ideal woman was his wife,