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(THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY," Happiest Marriages Are Those in Which the Wife Is Older Than Husband, Says May lrwin, Who Carries Out Her Belief :: Sprightly Actress Philosophizes on Wed- loch for The Evening World, Declaring | Her Belief That Love and Respect Weigh Far Heabier Than Age. By Alice Prohe, HE woman who marries a man younger than herself is hap- Sd 1. pier than the woman who marries an older man. “There are cases where age does not exist. reapect weigh heavier in the balance. “A man has more respect for a woman older than himself, and | respect is necessary to happiness. | “Marriage 4 not to be laughed at. It 4s a very serious matter. “A man detween thirty-two and forty-flve quite naturally prefers to marry @ woman older than himself. It 4# only the old men who have @ strong penchant for young girls/” Love and No, gentle reader, I must admtt the above bits of philosophy éo not wound s bit Mke May Irwin—the May Irwin we all know as the folliest and funniest comedienne on the American stage. And, furthermore, the sbove proverbo were delivered tn the most seri- @us manner, although I must confess that when I entered Miss Irwin's apartments at the Hotel Woodstock to interview her on her approaching marriage with her manager, the youthful Kurt Eisselt, I had expected a ten-minute rapid-fire monologue on matrimony from the “only May” with @ laugh tn every line. “Marriage {s a very sertous matter,” said Miss Irwin, as we made our way through trunks full of clothes ready for the filght to the Thousand Islands, where the wedding will take place Sunday. NOTHING FUNNY ABOUT MARRIAGE. “And you maintain that {t ts not to be laughed at?” I said “Laughed at?" echoed Miss Irwin, without a trace of the Widow Jones or Mrs. Wilson or any of the ladies whose quips at marriage have brought the comedienne many a laugh. “You don’t mean to say that you expected me to say anything funny about marriage, did you? I'm funny on the stage because I get paid for it. I don't have time to be funny after I leave the theatre. Besides, I don't see how any one could regard matrimony any way but seriously.” “I bave lived quietly all my itfe I “Very tow people do, espectally the! c See don’t think I have been out to dinner nee g cee rentured to aay. yy| half a dosen times tn se many Years ell, I will tell you quite plainly! wren my work at the theatre is over why I am going to be married,” sald I go home alon | conductve to h Not very inspiring or piness.” “But you don't think a woman should 1 in- Miss Inwtn, and in her story there was) & good deal of philosophy. “My first husband died many years| marry because she ts lonesome?” ae2, and I always said | would never) quired marry again until my two boys were! “Certainly not,” replied Miss Irwin grown up and situated tn life eo that], I said before, marriage is a very they were well started of suo | serious thing. A woman past forty re- careers. I have worked hard for m ae sigh because she ts harder children, and I have taken care of my A woman must love the man mother. I never wa 4 to m ea. aty spoke of the lonell- they were dependent upon me. anmarried woman's life be- s of “Now that m boys are started ause I have felt it so much my; Ife, I feel as sh Theda know many other women w take @ look wn as I 60." My son very fond of Mr, Elsselt, “You will excuse me if I have as can and they always take ‘the Que: @ no wrong’ attitude toward me. Not Right to Live Alone. sumed ‘a ‘hearken-back-to-the-days-of- Flomer’ attitude,’ J said as I inquired what Mise Irwin's views were on mar rying a man younger than egies oy that woman “Well. there t# one thing.” mians, ig a Jaw of nature) Miss Irwin, “I am not cedifey eine that we should bé mated. A woman ts! my age. No, 1 even Jaughed when I Zongnen When ‘she je’ not penis I read in ofe morning paper that I was have met a man I love and I'm going /ffty-four and going to marry a man to marry h; that’s all of twenty- two. Another paper had me YEGGMEN BATTLE PASTE GWEN IN CITIZENS WHEN EXCHANGE FOR HALTED IN RAID. REAL SAPPHIRE Two of the Robbers and a} | Eighth Ala dae Jeweler Placed Watchman Shot and Others Under Arrest for De- Wounded at Hornell, N. Y. frauding a Thief. HORNBLA, N. ¥., May %—In a! attic between a gang of armed Yous- Samuel Btern, a watchmaker, of No 62 Eighth avenue, was to-day arrested men and citizens here arly’ to-day by Policeman Dominic Reilly. He ts Night Wotchmao John Hendy, of the charged with receiving stolen Hornell Street Rallway Company, wa® ang with larceny. According to vd fatally shot, spveral citizens were tr ae reports the home of Bverett W. Little, of No. ® West Fifty-eigbth street, was entered on Apri) 25 and a sapphire and diamond pin valued at $30 was stolen. William Idwards, @ negro, was ar rewted and convicted of the theft. He came up for sentence to-day. ‘The po- lice learned from him that he had taken the pin to Stern and hed the ured and three of the robbers, Joseph Carroll, of Brooklyn; Raymond English, ef Rochester, and Harry Thomas, of Now York Cify, were arrested ngtish and Thomas were filled with Guckshot in a running fight with me police. : Bhortly after 1 o'clock the gang tried 7 Blceyell the Foye La yan pd thy eas stones transferred to a ring. The ring Watchman Hendy, and in « tustiade "S? found on Edwards when he was Heady was shot. Before this the gang **rested When it was returned to Mr, had Wroken into the @teuben Silk Bfilis, Tittle he discovered that the sapphire | where thay were surprised by Nignt Pad ame aggre id en imitation Watchman Thomas Kelly, whom they) "WA* he detectives fearned that Pen rere ce Stern had sold the sapphire for $16, It Was resold several times, but. re- y rr raved oo pein es “ yr W M1 oar Jennies covered trom its fourth purchaser, who and the meat rket of Chris Ripley, S84 given $5 for lt, Sentence in Ba ai the latter place they blew a safe and W"ds's case was deferred until Fri-| got 40. day, Stern waa held for twenty-four From the meat market the gang went | ours te the residence of William F. Purdy evidently knowing that Mr. Purdy bad vecently been elected treasurer of the @outh Bide Baptist Church. ‘They se eured a lot of valuables there, together important papers. | * Charles Kooi, who lives next! oor, pul her head out of the window, and ene of the yessmen tired three shots et her. emashing the glass in the windew, which out her Alderman Yost, whe lived on the other side of Purdy isu Winw olny yur tse "Phe noise of the ota, pobive ON ae he ‘burglars the bie salinoas Uae Be eta or battle with the “parwuing od jumped on « moving Wala and we etting away but the police and| Bases Taligwed bn & awitod engine. oro NATHAN LUSTIG ARRESTED. Aconsed by Stepmoth: and B Nathan Lustig, twenty-thiee years old, accused by bis stepmother, Mrs. Mary Lustig. of belne one of vwo men who beat and robieed her of $800, has been arrested. sh000ug Aroused the joree 4bd @ number Pat | “A young man likes to fee! that be relied on and who has common sense.” fifty and Mr. Elesett twenty-seven. 1 believe by the time the last afternoon 1s of tie evening papers were out I had decreased to forty-five and Mr, Bisset aged to thirty-five.” Tells Her Age Right Out. “I am ten years older than Mr. Els- welt,” said Miss Irwin, “and al] I can say about my own axe is tat anybody who wants to get a pedigree and proof ean look up ‘Who's Who in Ameria.’ ‘When & Woman been on the stage as long as I have she must ex- pect to have okt, gray haired men totter up to her and say; ‘Yes, yes. I re- member seeing you on ¢ ‘age when he = married to a woman who can I was a boy of fifteen.’ “An old gentlemen asked me not very long ago tf I wouldn't tell him my per sonal remtniscences of Tony Pastor when he was on the Bowery. “No,” Miss Irwin went on, “I'm not quite that olf, apd Mr. Bisselt is not « child tn arms.” “And you don’t belleve sentiment is affected by age?” I inquired after Minx Irwin talked on the prospects of happ! ness of & woman over forty married ¢ a younger man. “Sentiment 1s the same, no matter what the age, only ft is tempered bp common sense.” “Do you believe tn the ‘Love comes Mke ® summer sigh’ bust in a $25,000 "* “It te should lve alone not right that @ woman woman who has reached, years of din cretion? exactly. A woman who reached she is about sentiment, 1 Y Respects ‘an Older Woman. we man respects a mar older himself. He likes to fer rried to & Woman who upon and who has good en such an epidemic ely among the profession usband has been you fe that when you oo your approsching marrfage th ing at aaking the v Irwin so many perso Well, I don’t know the others, but I fi earned my happiness and follow my own inclination! ‘And you can count on @ veryboay kinds right to hing you all of happiness, T said tn conclusion s for the difference tn age,” re- joined Mise Irwin, “there are ' cases age does not exist’ Love and eapect welgh heavier in the balance.’’ Miss Irwin extended her hand in good-by, and the last words of the omedienne who ie associated in our inds with the best laughs of our © repeated solemnly ‘Marriage 's not to trades, MAY 24, leisure and man—all wear W. L. Doug- las $3.50 shoes because they are the best. W.L. Douglas makes and sells more Men’s'?.50 shoes thanany other’manufacturer inthe world. EWARD to anyone who can disprove this statement. (19073 SHAH’S BROTHER IS MAKING TROUBLE. SKIN TORTURES AFFLICT CHILDREN Obstinate Case of Eczema Covered Little Girl’s Limbs with Running Sores— Poison Oak Made Boy's Js and Arms a Mass of Tor- g Sores—Sufferers Soon Re- lieved and Completely Cured— Grateful Mother Says ! “CUTICURA REMEDIES A HOUSEHOLD STANDBY” ee {Last year, girl treate Gian for @ I resor after having my Iittle minlent phyale se of arama, Cuticura Soap, . and Cuticura Pills, When we commenced withithe Cutl cura Remedies her fest end limbs were covered with ning sores. In about six weeks * her completely well, and there has been no recurrencs of the trouble. “In July of ‘his year a little boy tn our family polsoned his hands and arms with p and in twenty-four Bours ‘his hands and arms w mass of torturing sores. Wo used only the Cuticura Rem hing his hands and arms w ure Boap, and anointing th utioura Oint mont, and then gave him ‘ho Cutivura Resolvent. In about tliree weeks his Hands and arms healed lots of cause for feelin, Cuticura Remedies, So we hive grateful for, the We find that’ the Cuticura Re are a valuable household standby, living as wo do twelve miles from a doctor. Mra, Lizz Vincent Thomas, Fairmount, Walden Ridge, Tenn., Oct. 13, 1905." LET MOTHERS KNOW ay @ warm bath ep and a eingle anointing with Cot re, the great Skin Cure, and purest and sweetest of emollienta, will afford instant relief and refreshing ‘sleep for gkin-tortured babies, and reat for tired worn-out * External and 1 , Cha Deny ‘Treatment toe And AGuits cote et W.L. DOUGLAS 320 SHOES Men in every walk of life, in all professions and the entleman of e working: THE REASON W. L. Douglas $3.50 shoes are worn by more men in all walks of life than any other make, is because of their excellent style, easy-fitting, and superior wearing qualities. The selection of the leathers and other materials for each part of the shoe, and every detail of the making is looked after and watched over by the most complete organiza- tion of superintendents, foremen and skilled shoemakers in the world, who receive the highest wages paid in the shoe industry, and whose workmanship cannot be excelled. If I could take you into my large factories at Brockton, Mass., and show you how carefully w. fit L.Do Yeawmen was seen pa ie rn e arches the freight. He ery f@wam one hundred yards and aivesied | the Yoreman at the point of his gun her two ye irection of Caniaioo "T' were netified and mm 0 Officer Haley flied the loge Cannot Be Equalled At Any Price. ‘ 1.75 an $2.00. JUST THE SAME AS MY MEN'S $3.50 SHOES, and price is peng ts are wor, 120th Street. ‘THERS, FOR $1.75 AND $2.00. KE HO. 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