Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-03-21
Carnegi-'s lie, of Love.

MI. Andrew carnegie, IN MS new
capacity of all-around adviser to man
kind, declares that more men should
marry women who are older than
themselves. If a woman is 20 or 80
years older than her husband, Mr..
Carnegie thinks their union is likely
to be a good thing for all concerned.
We confess that it is rather diff
cult to follow the drift of Mr.. Carne-
gie's argument. 1t it true that we
have some notable example of con-
jugal happiness wherein the oaks are
much younger than the vines that
cling to them.
There is the celebrated Baroness
Burdett-Coutts and the young man
who is her lord and master Thy cour-
tesy) for example. We have never
heard it even limited that the baroness
and her husband were not as happy
as two doves on a tin roof. Yet the
baroness is, If a. reports are true, al
most old enough to be her husbands
grandmother.
But theirs is an exceptional case
and must not be set up as a prece-
dent for the world at large. 1t has
been rumOred that the baroness
young man was not animated by love
alone when he called her Baby the
first time, but we have no right to
draw conclusions from stories that
have their origin in mere circumstan-
tial combinations
Another case on Mr.. Carnegie's side
Of the argument is furnished by Mr..
! and Mrs. George Cornwallis-West
Mrs. West, who was formally Lady
Randolph Churchill, might have sent
her sons outgrown baby clothes to
her future husband when he was
learning to say "Ah-goo'' if the Vests
had needed help. We have every
reason to believe that Mr.. and Mrs.
West are just as happy today as they
were the first time he took her in his
arms and said:
Tell me again, sweetie, that you
never really loved anybody till you
saw me-
Coming little nearer home, we
may consider the case of Mr.. Corne-
Illus Vanderbilt, who is, we believe,
nine or ten years younger than his
pretty wife. Although she cost him
100000, his ardor does not seem to
have cooled in the least since their
marriage. If appearances count for
anything he is still as fond of the
lady as he was the very first time she
ever laid her cheek up next to Adams
apple and murmered, us DOR title
dirl."
So we see that at least three nota-
BILE instances seniority on the part of
the wife has not been a bar to happf-
ness. Still, it must not be forgotten
that against these admirable cases
there are many Of a directly opposite
nature to be taken into accoutt. It
would be idle to contend that unhap-
piness must necessarily follow where
the wife chances to be one, two or
even five years older than her hus-
band. There is no reason why the
woman should always be condemned
on account of her years. In these
strenuous days men frequently sue
cumb more readily than women to
the ravages of time, and now that the
ladies are playing golf and INDUCING
in all other rational outdoor sports,
there is no reason why the years
should not set as lightly on them as
on their brothers generally. Why,
then, should it be necessary to insist
that either the wife or the husband
must be twenty or thirty years older
than the other?
mr. Carnegie is evidently barking
back to the days when he was a
schoolboy for his logic. There is
time in every mans life when it
seems to him that he could be truly
happy with a woman say fifteen or
twenty years older than himself, but
he generally gets over that feeling
before it becomes possible for him to
obtain a marriage license Chicago
Times-Herald.