The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-23
WIDOWS WE'D YOUNG MN
PROMINENT AND TITLED DANES
WHO HAVE CHOSEN YoUTH-
Full HUSBANDS
LESS THAN HALF HER OWN AGE
Is Lady Randolph ChurchiIPs New
spOuse-Mme. Patti, Mrs. Lang
try, Mrs. Burnett and Bar
oness Burdett-COutts.

Lady Randolph Churchill-or, as she
now prefers to call herself, Mrs. George
| Corvallis Vests by no means the first
lady of prominence to marry a man less
than half her own age, says Tit-Bits.
As is well known, this clever. handsome
and ente.prising American woman is the
mother of a son who is several months
older than her present youthful spouse.
1t is twenty-six years since she became
the wife of the late Lord Randolph
Churchill, who died in 1895, Nobody who
! witnessed her wedding could have irnag-
med that she would take unto herself
as a second husband a young man at that
time unborn. At the present time Lady
Randolph is well into the forties, while
her husband has not gone far into his
| twenties
The lady so long famous as Mrs Lang
| try, but whose correct designation has
| for some little time been Mrs. Hugo de
Battle, is another who has married as a
second husband man young enough to
be her son. Having been born as far
back as the year 1852 the Jersey Lily
has been charming the world for fully
quarter of a century.
1t was in her tWenty-secend year that
she was married to her first husband,
Maj. Langtry, who died two or three
years ago. Her present husband, Mr..
Hugo de Battle, son and heir of Sir Hen
ry de Battle, is now in his twenty-ninth
year. For some time past lie has been
absent in South Africa fighting with his
| regiment
PATHS THIRD HUSBAND.
When Mime. Patti was married to the
| Swedish Baron Cederstrom she not only
| secured a third husband, but one a great
many years younger than herself. The
| world-famed songstress has so well pre-
served her youth and beauty that people
are apt to forget that she is now in her
hfty-eighth year
She was born in Madrid in February,
1913. At the age of twenty-five she be
came the wife OF the Marquis de Caux.
| and eighteen years later she. found u
second husband in Gig. Ntcelini, who died
about two and half years ago. Several
months afterward her enga cement 10
Baron Cedarstrom was announced, aud
before many weeks had elapsed the mar
riage took place. The baron * a hand
some young Swede of engaging manners.
As counting by years he is little more
than half the age of his gifted and ever
youthful wife.
Mrs. Frances 1Iodgson Burnett, the IA
nous authoress of "Eittle Lord Fauut-
leroy and many other notable works, is
recent addition to the list of elderly
ladies who have young husbands. She
was born in. Manchester in 1919 and is
| consequently now in her fifty-frst year.
parents to the United States marrying
eight years later DR.. Burnett. OF Wash
ington.
From him she obtained a divorce a cou-
pie of years ago. Last February She
was married to a gentleman who had for
some time acted as her private sacre-
tary, Stephen Townsend, f. r. A. s.. a
handsome young Englishnan OF some
thirty summers
OF ladies who, as spinsters married
men much younger than themselves there
are one of two notable examples. Per-
haps the most remarkable is that of the
''angel of goodness Baroness Burdett-
Coutts. Her ladyship was born IN the
year 1914 and is consequently now of the
age of eighty six. She did. not marry
until she had reached her siXty-seventh
year. when she accepted the hand and
heart of William Ashmead-Bartlett
now NJ p. for Westminster
This gentleman was at that time only
thirty years of age, and instead or Civ
ing his wife his name, as nearly every
man does when he rnarrfes, he assumed
that of his WIFE The baroness is one of
the few women In this country who are
peeresses In their owa right. This rare
honor was bestowed on her in 1871 AID
never did it have a more worthy recip-
lent
Mr.. Croker on Young Men.
IIarper's. Weekly
Mr.. Croker has again attracted atten-
ton a. DlJ11lic SGea her When Mr..