The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-01
CUPID EYER YOUNG Age Is No Bar to Love or to Happy Life After
 Marriage. MUCH EAGERNESS TO WE'D Some Experiment That Have Proved
 to Be Very Great
 Successes.
MUCH EAGERNESS TO WE'D

dead? Is her heart ever steeled to Cupid's shafts? What is a woman's prime of life, anyway?
 These are serious questions They have been asked from the beginning of time Doubtless they will be asked to its end But never has an answer been more frequently demanded than right now in this goth century. Practi- cal as they are, these times are far from being shorn of romance.
 In youth, in age, womans power of loving seems always just the same. One day we have madenly May mar rying hoary-bearded December, Next we have mustached May the blushing | bridegroom of motherly December It is all the same-the only safe answer 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 l Miss Ellen Terry, premier Shakesper ian actress of two continents? She has recently taken to herself a third hus- 1 band-James Carew. They were mar ried on March 22 last in Pittsbnrg by Justice of the Peace Campbell.
 The Pennsylvania law requires cer- tain questions Young Mir. Carew said he was born in Indiana and was an actor by profession. He owned up to S2 years, but 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 27, lS4S.
 Romance has always played a part in the life of Mrs. Charles T. Yerkes- Mizner. When as the beautiful Mary Adelaide Moore of Philadelphia she met Charles T. Yerkes he was not the multi-milionaire that he was when he died He had been out of the penHentiary but little while, still the golden-haired girl loved him and he loved her. They were married, Wealth came faster and faster.
 MT. Yerkes became one of the fore most traction men of this country and Europe He had a beautiful Chicago home but Mrs. Yerkes wanted another in New York. So the multimillionaire built another one-a great brown stone pile-on upper Fifth avenues
 He died on December 20, 1905. ; within a month along came hand some six-foot Californian, Wilson Mizner by name He had a way with the women that was wonderful, and in the golden west he had left a reputa- | 1 ton as a ladys 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 . pity was akin to love. His sympathy was so apparently genuine, his soliei' tude so tender that the widow was touched very deeply.
 Young MT. Mizner himself felt tht call of Cupid. From commiseratior he turned to courtship; he won ar easy victory after whirlwind attaci on the citadel of the widows heart Within month after MT. Yerkes death they were quietly married. Blu here the romance died a-borning. MT Mizner soon shook the dust of Fifti / avenue from his feet, and Mrs Yerkes- Mizner declared that 1t had al been a mistake. Last week she wa granted divorce.
 Death alone robbed Mrs. FranI Leslie of a fourth marriage. Whel Marquis de Campaliegre, Spanlsl noble, died in Paris recently. Mrs. Les lie--that is the name by which sh chooses to be known--told her friend that she had promised to be hls pride Her rousseau had already been mad in Paris the wedding set for early thi month.
 But the marquis suddenly passe away. And now Mrs. Leslie has saile for Europe to join the marquis fam fly.
 Mrs. Leslie was the beautiful Miria Florence Follne of New Orleans. Hf
 first husband was F. G. Squler' aftel ward United States commissioner
 Peru. from whom she separated ST then married Frank Leslie. the TIC
 publisher. After his death she p
 came a bride for the third time, ma
 rving willie" Wilde, brother of tF
 late Oscar Wilde, She divorced tn
 husband because he was too much
 A spendthrift among other things ,,5 Romance has always played for <. most role in the life of Patti, the q ny vine. New York has known her the he 50 years and more but Europe h been the place where she has eN it fallen prey to Cupids darts nd The great diva was born Tn ls4 m nu the morning after her mother Mn m Barilh, had sung Norma" with gre nd eclat. In 1851 Patti, at the tender a It of eight was also singing but her re ,e- debut was in this city in 1893. Il m m singing made furor; her success W ow instantaneous.
 by Seven years later she met Marq' ur de Caux of an honored french ta' ,i, ily. They were both in love and nat marriage was arranged by no less lnc parsonage than the Empress Eugen ,u9 Then in 1871 she met the ten
 Ernesto Nicolini. For Patti he chang ~% the whole current of the diva's Il
 Signor Nicolini was a singer of 1 very remarkable ability. The gr'
 songstress loathed the man, who p
 sisted in following her all over E
 rope, though there was Signora
 colini and several little Nicolinis.
 But Nicolini was persistence its, 1 He was a frend of the Marquis
 Caux, who found out one day h
 matters stood He forbade the sim
 the house. This made the diva furio
 He also refused to allow his W
 to sing This was the la, straw. IT