Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-08-01
AGE CERTAINLY
NO BAR TO LOVE
RECENT MARRIAGES RECALL IN
TEREsTING RoMANcEs.
OLD WOMEN TAKE YOUNG
Ellen Terry's Third Husband About
Thirty Years Her Junior-Widows
and Divorces More Eager to Wed
Than Spinsters-Two Literary
Romances.

Is there ever time in a woman s
life when the possibility of romance
is dead? Is her heart ever steeled
to Cupid's shafts? What is a WON
ans prime of life any way?
These are serious questions. They
have been asked from the beginning
of time Doubtless they will be
asked to it's end. But never has an
answer been more frequently demand
ed than right now in this twentieth
century. Practical as it is, these
times are far from being shorn of
romance.
In youth, in 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 mustached May the blushing
bridegroom of motherly December. 1t
Is all the same-the only safe e..
to the question is that there doesn't
seem to be any woman in the world
who can finally put aside romance for
the more practical things of life.
And who could have given more
prominence to this very thing than
Miss Ellen Terry. premier Shakes
pearean actress of two continents?
She has recently taken to herself a
third observation-disclosures Carew. They
were married on March % last in
Pittsburg by Justice of the Peace
Campbell The marriage has just
been announced.
The Pennsylvania law requires GER
tain questions. Young Mr. Carew
said he was born in Indiana and was
an actor by profession. He owned up
to 80 years, but he looked younger.
Miss Terry told that she had been
married twice before-divorced once
and widowed the second time. She
gave her birthday as February 81,
1S4S
Romance of Mrs. Yerkes.
Romance has always played a part
in the life of Mrs. Charles t. Yerkes
Miner. When as the beautiful Mary
Adelaide Moore of Philadelphia she
met Charles T. Yerkes he was not
the multimillionaii,e that he was when
he died. He had been out of the
penitentiary but little while; still
the golden-haired girl loved him and
he loved her. They were married
Wealth came faster and faster
Mr.. Yerkes became one of the fore
most traction men of this country
and Europe. He had beautiful Chi
cago home, but Mrs. Yerkes wanted
another in New York. So the multi
millionaire built another one-a great
brown stone pile-in upper Fifth ave
nue..
He died on December 20, 1905
Within month along came hand
some six-foot Californian, Wilson Miz-
ner by name. He had way with
the women that was wonderful and
in the golden west he had left repu-
tation as lady's man which would
be hard to duplicate.
He had known Mrs. Yerkes for
about a year. He called to express
his grief at her sorrow. Here again
thy was so apparently genuine, his so
licitude so tender that the widow was
touched very deeply.
Young Mr.. Miner himself felt the
call Of Cupid. From commiseration he
turned to courtship; he won an easy
victory after whirlwind attack on
the citadel of the widows heart.
Within a month after Mr.. Yerkes.
death they were quietly married. But
here the romance died a-borning. Mr..
avenue from his feet and Mrs. Yerkes
Miner declared that it had all been a
mistake. Recently she was granted
divorce.
Death Stops Marriage.
Death alone robbed Mrs. Frank Les
lie of fourth marriage. When Mar
quis De Campallegre. Spanish noble.
died in Paris recently Mrs Leslie
that is the name by which she
chooses to be known-told her friends
that she had promised to be his bride.
Her trousseau had already been made
in Paris. the wedding set for early
this month.
But the marquis suddenly passed
away. And now Mrs. Leslie has
sailed for Europe to join the marquis
family.
Mrs. Leslie was the beautiful Mir
lam Florence Folline OF New Orleans
Her first husband was f. G. Squier.
afterward United States commissioner
TO Peru. from whom she separated
She then married Frank Leslie. the
rich publisher. After his death she
became a bride Tor the third time.
marrying willie Wilde brother OF
the late oscor Wilde. She divorced
this husband because he was too much
Of spendthrift among other things.
Romance has always PLAYED fore
most role in the life of Patti. the di-
vine. New York has known for these
fifty years and more. but Europe has
been the place where she has ever
fallen prey to Cupid's darts.
The great diva was born in is4s,