The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1907-06-06
The Growing List Of
Women Who Marry
Men Many Years
Younger Than Them
selves Seems to Show
thar Charms Are No
Longer Certain to
Wane Beyond Forty
Five and Even Fifty.

a woman's life when the possibility %
romance Is dead? Is her heart ever
steeled 10 Cupid's shafts2 What is a
woman'H prime OF life. anyway? These
are serious questions. They have been
asscd since the beginning Of time.
doubtless they viii be asked TO it's
emo But never has an nnswer been
more frequently demanded than right
now la this twentieth century. Prac-
teal as it Is. these times are FAR from
being shorn OF romance
ia youth. Gre age. woman's power of
loving seems always just The same.
One day We have maidenly May mar
rying hoary-bearded December. Next
we have mustaehed May the bmshing
bridegroom Of motherly december. Il
IS all the same-the only safe answer
70 the question Is that there doesn't
seem 10 De any woman in the world
who can finally put aside romance for
the moro practical things Of life.
And who could have given more
prominence TO this very thing than
Miss ELLEN Terry. premier s~hakespear
fan actress OF two continents. She
has recently taken 10 herself a third
hushand-lames CarcW. They were
married on March 20 last IN Pittsburg
by Justice OF the Peace Campbell.
Terry's Youthful Husband.
The Pennsylvania law requires Ger.
tain questions Young Mr. Carew said
be was born IN Indiana and was an
actor ny profession lie owned up TO
% years. but he looked younger Miss
Terry told that she had boeu married.
twice beiore-dlvorccd once and wild
owed fhe second time She gave her
birthday as February 20, lSiS.
Romance has always played o part
Do tbe uie 90 Mrs. Canrles r. Yerkcs-
Mlznor when as uhc beautiful Mary
Adelaide Moore uf PHILADELPHIA she
met Charles T. Yerkcs be was not the
itimiliouaiue that be waa when he
died. lie bad been out of Che leui-
Tertiary but a little while. SIN the
golden haired girl loved him aud he
loved her They were married
Wealth came faster and faster.
Mr. Ycrkes became one OF the fore.
most traction men OF thia country and
Europe lie bad a beautiful Chicago
homo. but Mrs. Yerkos wanted another
iu Ncw York So the ulti-mliiouairo
built another onc-a great brown
stonc pile Ia upper Fnh avenue
Ho died on December -. 1905. with.
Ga a month along came a handsome
si2 foot Californian. Wilson Miner by
name lio had a way with the women
that was wonderful. aud ln the Golden
West De- had lcft a reputation as a
ladys man which would De hard 20
duplicate
&c had Known Mrs Ycrkcs for
about a year lie called 20 express his
Erlcf az her sorrow Hers again pity
was akin 20 love His sympathy was
80 apparently genuine. hia solicitudo
40 tender THAI the widow was touched
very deeply.
Admits Mistake IN Marriage.
Young Mr. Miner himself felt the
call of Cupid Prom cammiseration De
turned TO courtship. he won an easy
victory after a whirlWind attack on
the citadel OF the widows heart
Within a month after Mr. Yerkes
death ihey were quietly married.
Bnt here the romance died a.horn
ing Mr. Miner soon shook the dust
81 Fifth avenue from his feet and
Mrs. YerkesM iEner declared that d
had an been a mistake.
But now the case OF Miner vs. Mia.
ner is even before the court
Death alone robbed Mrs Frank Les.
le of a fourth marriage, when the
Marquis de Campallegro. a Spanish
noble. died IN Paris recently, Mrs
LcsHc-thai a. the namo by which she
chooses to be knoWn-told 20 her
friends that she had promised TO be
hts bride. Her rousseau had already
been made ia Paris. the wedding set
for early this month.
Hut the marquis suddenly passed
way. Aud now Mrs. Leslie has sail
"a Tor Europe 70 Join the marquis
family,
Many Times Married.
Mrs f.oslio was the beautiful Mlri
am Florence Fullinc OF New Orleans
Her nrst husband was T. q sQuior
ancrward United States commissioner
40 Peru. FROM whom she separated
she then married Frank Leslie. the
rich publisher AMER bis death she
became a bride for the third time,
riarryine While Wilde brother of