Show ludy not the first prow prom meat woman to marry a youthful churchill husband 4 lady randolph churchill or as she now prefers to call herself mrs george cornwallis west Is by no means the first lady of prominence to marry a man less than halt half her own age gays says tit bits As Is well known this clever hand some and enter american wo man Is the mother of a son who Is sev eral months older than her present youthful spouse it Is twenty six years once she became the wife of the late lord randolph churchill who died in 1895 nobody who witnessed the wed ding could have imagined that she would take unto herself as a second husband a young man at that time unborn at the present time lady randolph Is well into the forties while her husband has not gone far into his twenties the lady so long famous as mrs langtry but whose correct destina tion has for some little time been mrs hugo de bathe Is another who has married as a second husband a man young enough to be her son having been born so tar far back as the year 1802 the jersey lily has been charming the for fully a quarter of a century it was in her twenty second year that she was married to her first bus hus band major langtry aho vho v ho died two or three years ago her present bus hus band mr hugo de bathe son and heir or sir henry de bathe Is now in hia twenty ninth year for some time past he has been absent in south at af rica fighting with his regiment when mine mme patti was married to the swedish baron she not only secured a third husband but one a great many years younger than her self the world famed has so well preserved her iler youth and beau ty that people are apt to forget that she is in her fifty eighth year she was born in madrid in february 1843 at the age of twenty five she be came the wife of marquis de caux and eighteen years later she found a sec see ond husband husband in signor Nico lint who died about two and a halt half years ago several months afterward her engage ment to baron cedarstrom w was as an bounced and before many weeks had elapsed the marriage took place the baron Is a handsome oung young swede of engaging manners As counting by years he Is little more than half the age of his gifted and ever youthful wife mrs frances hodgson burnett the famous authoress of little lord fauntleroy and many other noab e works Is a recent addition to tho I 1 s of elderly ladies who have young husbands she was born in manches anches Nl ter 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 years later dr burnett of washington from him she obtained a couple of years ago last february she was married to a gentleman who had for some time acted as her privat secretary stephen townsend F R A S a handsome young englishman of some ome thirty summers of ladies who as spinsters carrid in men en much younger than themselves there are one or two goable examples perhaps the most remarkable Is that of the angel of goodness baroness B ardett coutts her ladyship was born in the year 1814 and Is conse qi antly now at the age of eighty six she did not marry until she had reach ed her sixty seventh year when she accepted the hand and heart of wil horn ashmead bartlett now M P for westminster this gentleman was at that time only thirty years of age and instead of giving hia hit wife his name as nearly every man loes oes when he be marries he assumed that of his wife the baro daro ness Is one of the few women in this country who are peeresses in their own ng rig this rare honor was be stowed ou ot her in 1871 and never did it have a worthy recipient |