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Show AGED BRIDE SURE OF "BOY'S" LOVE DISPARITY IN THEIR YEARS, SHE IS 64 AND HE 19, WILL NOT CAUSE TROUBLE. MARRIAGE A CASE OF LOVE Wife Old Enough to Be Grandmother of Bridegroom Sees No Reason Why Their Wedding Should Create Commotion. . Columbia, Mo. When Turner Acton, Ac-ton, 19-year-old bridegroom, wants his own way his bride, who was Mrs. Sarah Anne Montemat, 64 years old, won't quarrel or threaten or pout, he says. She will "coax" him', And the gentle art of coaxing, in the opinion of the venerable bride, will keep peace and happiness at the hearth where she and her boy husband will sit. "Neither husband nor wife ought, to be boss," says Mrs. Acton, whose hair is white. "I won't expect to run our home and 1 know Turner will not 1 especially if I coax him." Mr. and Mrs. Acton are still in their honeymoon and are furnishing a cottage cot-tage in the western part of Columbia. They have been boardiug since their marriage with an aunt of the bridegroom bride-groom on West Broadway. "Yes, I have seen old fellows so decrepit de-crepit that they had to hobble around on canes marrying young girls," says Mrs. Acton, who is old enough to be her own husband's grandmother, and who, in fact, is a grandmother, "and I have known marriages like that to turn out unhappily, the wife seeking men companions of her own age. "But I don't worry one minute about my Turner. I feel sure he loves me just as much as I love him. I know he is trustworthy and honorable and I'm not in the least afraid of his ever getting get-ting tired of me and running after young girls. "I don't see why bur marriage should have stirred up such a commotion. commo-tion. Why, there's, been a newspaper man here almost every day and the newspapers all over the country have been writing about us. I even got a letter from a sister of mine in Fort rnn I ggg I IB L .j "But I Don't Worry One Minute About My Turner." Worth, Tex., whom 1 hadn't heard from in twenty years. She'd read of the wedding. "If Turner and I wanted to get mar- . ried I don't see that anybody else need bother about it. The marriage was our affair. He didn't have any-home any-home and neither did I, and we loved each other. I don't think it makes a particle of difference that l'a 60 and he's not yet 20. Age hasn't anything to do with love. "I'm sure he'll be good to me as long as I live and I know I'll try to be the best wife I can to him. It's a pleasure now to fix his lunch for him when he goes out for the day's work." This was Mrs. Acton's second marriage. mar-riage. She had been a widow nearly twenty years when she married her boy bridegroom. Two sons are in the army, one now in the Philippines. A married daughter has one child, Mrs. Acton's only grandchild. She has property worth about $1,000 and a veteran's widow's pension of $15 a month. Her husband, who was employed as caretaker by an elderly rich man in Columbia, has given up nursing and gone back to his former occupation, teaming. He has black hair, broad shoulders, dresses jauntily and smokes cigarettes. But he never takes a drink, his wife and aunt both say. Mrs. Acton admits that she will try to be financial adviser of the home, for she says she has had years of experience in economizing and managing man-aging a small income. "If Turner'll let me and I'm sure he will I'll keep the money and I'll save some of all we take in," she says. Acton's aunt said to the reporter while Mrs. Acton walked to the gate with her husband. "They act just like you would expect of newlyweds if both were of his age. They never seem to notice that she is so old and be so young. Anyway, she's as active as any girl 1 know." Heavy Trade in Lobsters. Importations of lobsters into the L'nited States in 190S amounted to 8,212,945 pounds, valued at $1,101,4419 and nearly all from Canada. |
