The Ashburton Guardian.

Vol xxi. no. 5247

Ashburton ; Monday, October 29, 1900.

price : One Penny

Elderley Ladies With Young Husbands.

Lady Randolph Churchill—or,aa the now prefers to call herself, Mrs George Oornwallis tVeßt—is by no means the first lady of prominence to marry » man less than half her own age

As is well known, this clever, band* some, and enterprising American woman is the mother of a son who ig several months older than her present; youthful spouse. It is twenty six years since she became the wife of the late Lord Randolph|jOhurchill,who died in 1895, Nobody who witnessed her wedding could have imagined that sht would take unto herself as a second husband a young man at that time un born. At the present time Lady Ran dolph is well into the forties, while her husband has not gone far into his twenties

The lady so long famous as Mra Langtry, but whose correct designation has for some little time been Mrs Augo de Bathe, ia another who has married as a second husband a man young enough to be her son. Having been born so far back as the year 3852, the Jersey Lily has been charming the word for fully a quarter of a century. It was in her twenty second year that she was married to first husband* Major Langtry, who died two or three years ago. He/ present husband, Mr Hugo de Bathe, son and heir of Sir Henry da Bathe, is now in his twenty ninth year. For some time post ha has been absent in South Africa fight* ing with his regiment.

When Madame Patti was married to the Swedish Baron OedersfcrSm, she not only secured a third husband, bat one a great many years younger than herself. The world famed Eongstresi has so well preserved 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, 1843. At the age of twenty five she became the wife of the Marquis de Oftßx ; and eighteen years liter aha found a second husband in Signor Mcolini, who died about two and a half years ago. Several months after wards her engagement to Baron Cederstrom was announced, and before many weeks had elapsed the marriage took place. The Baron is a handsome young Swede of engaging manners. As counted by years, he is little more than half the age of hu gifted and ever youthfal wife Mrs Frances Hodgson Burnett, the famous 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 in Manchester in 1849, and is consequently now in her fifty first year. When only sixteen she migrated with her parents to the United States, marrying eight y§ar§ later Dr Burnett, of Washington

From him she obtained a divorce a couple of years ago. Last February she was married to a gentleman who had for some time acted as her private secretary, Mr Stephen Townsend, F.R.A.S, a handsome young English man of some thirty summers Of ladies who, as spinßters, married men much younger than themselvei there are one or two notable examples. Perhaps the most remarkable is that of the ••' angel of goodness," Baroness Burdett-Ooutts. Her ladyship was born in the year 1814, and is conse quently now of the age of eighty six. She did not marry until she had reached her sixty-seventh year, when she accepted the hand and heart of Mr William Ashmead Baftiett, now M P for Westminster

This gentleman was at that time only thirty years of age, and instead of giving his wife his name, as nearly every man does when he marries, ha assumed that of his wife The Baro nesa is one of the few women in this country who are peeresses in their own right. This rare honour^was bestowed on her in 1871, and never did it have a more worthy recipient.

An Adventurous Tour

Dr and Mrs Workman have juat com pleted a two year's bicycle tour in Northern India and Thibet, in which they underwent some marvellous eßcape and adventures. On their return they went on an Alpine expedition, during which they climbed the Kroser Gunge, 21,000 feet, Mrs Workman thus beat iojj the record of her sex by 400 feet-



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