The age-herald., 1900-09-26
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Their Youthful Husbands.

Lady Randolph Churchill-or as she now prefers to call herself Mrs. George Corn is-West-is 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 enterprising American woman is the mother of a son who is several months older than her present youthful spouse. It is twenty years since she became the wife of the late Lord Randolph Churchill, who died in 1895. Nobody who witnessed her wedding could have imagined that she would take unto herself as a second hus- band a young man at that time unborn. At the present time Lady Randolph Is well into the 4Gs, while her husband has not gone far into the 2Vs.
 The lady so long famous as Mrs. Langtry, but whose correct designation has for some little time been Mrs. Hugo de Bathe, Is another who has married as a second hus- band man young enough to be her son. Having been born so far back as the year 1S52 the Jersey Lily has been charming the world for fully a quarter of a century.
 It was in her twenty-second year that she was married to her first husband, Major Langtry. who died two or three years ago. Her present husband, Mir. Hugo de Bathe, now in his twenty-ninth year. For some time past he has been absent in South Af- rica fighting with his regiment.
 When Mime. Patti was married to the Swedish Baron Cederstrom she not only secured third husband but one a great many years younger than herself. The worId-famed songstress has so we'll pre- served her youth and beauty that people are apt to forget that she is now in her fifty-eighth year.
 She was born in Madrid in February, 1S43 At the age Of 25 she became the wife of the Marquis de Caux, and eighteen years later she found husband in Signor Nico- Ini, who died about two and half years ago. Several months afterward her en- gagement to Baron Cederstrom was an nounced, and before many weeks had elapsed her marriage took place. The baron is handsome young Swede of en- gazing manners. As counting by years, he is httle more than half the age of his gifted and ever-youthful wife.
 Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, the fam ous authoress of Little Lord Fauntleroy" and many other notable works is a recent addition to the list of elderly ladies who have young husbands. She was born n Manchester in 1S49, and is consequently now in her fifty-frst year. When only l6 she migrated with her parents to the Unit ed States, marrying eight years later Dr. Burnett of Washington.
 From his she obtained a divorce a couple of years ago, Last February she was married to gentleman who had for some time acted as her private secretary, Ste phen Townsend, F. R. A. s., a handsome young Englishman of some thirty summers
 Of ladies who, as spinsters, married men much younger than themselves there are one or two notable examples. Perhaps the most remarkable is that of the "angel of goodness" Baroness Burdett-Coutts. Her ladyship was born in the year 1874, and Is not marry until she had reached her 67th year. when she accepted the hand and heart of William Ashmead Bartlett, now M. P. for Westminster
 This gentleman was at that time only 30 years of age, and instead of giving his wife his name, as nearly every man does when he marries, he assumed that of his wife. The Baroness is one of the few women in England who are peeresses in their own right. This rare honor was bestowed on her in 1871, and never did it have more worthy recipient