Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-09-26
Loves of Elderly Men.

When elderly men marry second or a third
time there Is usually, says writer In the London
Echo, cynical outburst OF laughter among those
who know them. Where does the laugh come TO:
II a man has married good wife the first time Is
II not natural that he should try to console him.
sell with second? IL he has made mistake the
nrst time Is II not compliment TO the fair sex in
general If he shows that his general faith ia
womanhood Is not impaired by his first error? /
knew "A Imam whose life was spoiled for quarter
OF a century by marriage With a Iermagant whose
those OF the present summer All the while his
life was daily martyr4om. Yet he showed that
he never lost faith In womanhood by marrying a
second time less than year alter the vlrago had
been consigned to her grave, and his venture
amply aUoned for his nrst mistake.
sometimes young wives and aged husbands get
on very we'll Together, though not very often,
fear. The best example OF agreement know Is
that OF Sir Bulstrode nitelocke, Cromwelrs chan
celor, and his vile, Mary Wilson. Mary married,
at the age OF twenty, Rowland Wilson. young
Puritan merchant, who subsequently served as a
colonel In tn parliamentary army. He died
young, and she had many Suitors She tells her
story IN her diary In very naive fashion. "Whom
~ choose knew not, FOR they were all alike 10 me-
At last went TO God by prayer, and did lay my
condition before the Lord, and did Deg Of Him that
ii IL were HIS good pleasure TO have me alter my
condition that he would choose out a fitting
match Tor me. As for my own part, / did
slight riches and honors. When was In this
sweet frame OF spirit among many Others, there
came grave gentleman that had Ten children,
VIII ch al the d. ST notice did startle me, and did
cause all my friends TO be against IL. But after
haQ spent very mucn time In seeking God 10 d.
rect me, at last WAS brought TO consider that
enlldren were besslng-'nappy Is the manthat
hath his culver Iull OF them; they shall not Oe
ashamed, out they shall speak with the enemies
IN tue gate And seeing that they were q bless
ing anu the glIt OF God, as you may see In Psalm
cAAElIl, the third and fourth verses, there
1 !fs,, l., Lord i, sth. Thy wife shall be as
the children Ike olive pants round about Thy
Table Behold. thus shall the man Be blessed that
leareth the LJrd-sO that burst not refuse a man
for having ten blessings" And accordingly on
SepteIno r II, 1850. Mary Wilson became the third
wiie vi >ir BaistfOde Whitelocke. And the sequel
Is worth recording, Tor the lady adds, 'And God
dld hear my prayers, and did bless our marriage,
lor he dld give me great mercy In my husband
All this Is duly set down In the iadyS diary, written
IOr ner son. Ior whose Urth, by tue way she had TO
walt patiently for no less than 10 years In my judg-
ineht TINS Is a charming Puritani dyll. Tine gu s.
tlOh; when Is a man too old 10 marry 2" Is quite
as interesting as the question, when Is girl TOO
young J? must leave 10 physioios1sts TO discuss
now .ar the chances Of lie are shortened when
December weds May and expects In May anything
lnore lnan nurse, though, In Passing, may o0-
serve that have notlced several such marriages
TO the wedding. Without going back TO the time
when Jared lived a hundred and SIXTY and TWO
years ana oegat Enoch," there are several In
stances on record OF modern patrfarchs VIII be-
came proud and Happy fathers at the time when
they should be thinking about stunning on this
There W S that stout salopian, Old Parr, for ex-
ample, who married at eighty and had 10 do pen
ance IN Aideroury church Tor an intrigue with
OF one hundred and i've summer II Lord Lyttle-
ton Is 10 Dc believed Parr mad rival IN the Vile OF
Festlnlog, In the person OF an Oh Welsh farmer
who, when he died, had eight hundred lineal de-
scenddnts, and whose youngest son was eighty
one years younger than ms eldest. fancy this
man must have been Of the same family as a
certain Alderman Hookes, or Conway, who
Is described IN his epitapn as the forty -nrst
child OF his father, and himself the iather
OF twenty-seven children Happily for
themselves, these people lived long before the
days OF Dr. Drysdale. My own impression Is that
the Welsh border Is The paradise VI Old men. the
grand old man being only the most conspicuous
among many. Some years back spent sunday
In the very next parish TO Hawarden. l dlned
with q middie-aged man whose sons were fast
growing 70 manhood, and then walked over TO hi
fathers house ~ take tea Tue venerable old gem
tleman, who wore . headRear something ike OH
yer Goidsmlta'S, was nursing an infant Two or
three years Old on his knee. as that your YOUNG
est?' ! asked OF my middle-aged friend son
dear, no" he replied, "that Is my little brolhern
Mr.. Coke, OF H0lkham, afterward the nrst Earl
OF Leicester OF tue present line was quite as re-
markable man. He was born In 17J2, and at q
years OF age ne mafred his FIRST wife, by whom he
had three daughters she died In $500. Mr.. Coke
was great agriculturist, and by his sktll and
energy he developed his estate Till II became the
finest In Norfolk. Al 40 years OF age he married
young vile, by whom he had four Sons and
one daughter, and for the encouragement OF Old
gentlemen who are contemplating matrimony with
serious Intentions may add that be lived TO the
ripe old age OF ninety. Lord Le1cestcrs youngest
son was burn thirty years after his eldest daugh-
TER was married.