The evening world. Newspaper, April 26, 1921, Page 21

Oupieos, and the newly marr (re gti rere ens THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1921, NOTHING STOPS AGED ROMEOS WHO'D A-WOOING GO. NO, NOTHING! But Brides Are Usually Youthful Marriage of Millionaire Flagler and Death of Million- aire Oyster Recall Ten Other Similar Romances— Some Happy, Some Sad—Yet All Romantic. By Marguerite Dean. ‘Coprrient, by the Press Publishing Co., (Tho New York Evening World.) TELD MARSHAL CUPID continues to recruit the ranks of elderly Romeos. In the same grist of news which tells of the death of seventy- two-year-old George W. @f the marriage of seventy-year-old Jotm H. Flagler. The late Mr, Oystor was @ multi-millionaire; so ts Mr. Wheeler. The widow of Mr. Oyster is @ beautital young woman of twenty- fre. The wife of Mr. Flagier in de- worfbed as a charming young woman ot thirty-three. ‘Truly, there ts no age Itmft on ro- manoce—or on Romeo. Nor does the eynic’s observation that the old man who marries a young wife buys a book for some one else to read put any damper on such tnarriaces. Did not white-haired Henry Flagler, twice & widower, sitp off, Inet week, to the little town of Capake Falls, in the Berketire foothills, there to fill out © lMeence and take as a bride Miss Beatrice Frances Wenneker, half bis age? The tate Mr. Oyster, whose death from heart failure occurred at the Ambassador Hotel, Atlantic City, first met his youthful widow, Miss Cecil C. Ready, a Syracuse soctety sirl, at the New York State Fair last autumn, Apparently, there was a romantically impulsive courtship, for the two were married in Washing on Jamuary 15. 0 Some weeks ago there Were reports of a separation, from Syracuse and Washington, Mrs Oyster is now m Washington, and ‘was not with her husband during his last illness of several days’ dur nor at his bedside when he died. fortune is in the m ation His filions, and he ts his bride reported to have cut off without a cent. Another elderly Romeo who has been much in the public eye of late as W. E. D. Stokes, clubman, turfman @nd financier who was sixty he married Miss Helen Elwood, of Denver, a pretty girl only a little when more than @ third his ago, and who sensational suit for divorce from her ‘s now being tried in New York courts, His brother, a retired finan to the Romeo « ao, when, at severity- came a bridegroom for time. He married, in th at Patchogue, L. 1, a y of thirt,, named Lilyan Ma Col. Thor A romance January which went from c courts last month is that of M Mra. William P Rifles cour. She is ninstee Atlantic City for aa accounting, tunds he says he placed in the of his wife and of Mr, and Mrs Matthews, her uncie and ¢ story in court was that he had heen stripped of $60,000 since bis mar riage two years age Joseph Martin, a seventys San Francisco capitalis re qualified as a Romeo in New where he first met year-old Lillian Spal home of Dr. Edward 691 Park Avenue. She is de as @ young woman of great and beauty, @ former nurse and so cial service work She and Mr Martin were married on Washing ton’s Birthday. ‘When sixty-nine-year-old William Gitben, a rancher of Miles City, Mon tana, was married in the Mun! Bufldtng last autumn to Miss Mada tena Sabato, twenty-six, the Juliet tn the case was as Italian nal Juliet. He mei he sent for her to come here him, although she spoke no Engi and’ he no Italian. But love hi -wn language even for eld and M attship te jew York's marr. hand. One of the happtest se bureau hand in matrimonial unions of youth and age seems to be that of Mr, and Mrs. Richard Croker He was seventy-three when he mar ried twenty-three-year-old Bula Hen ton Edmondson, an attractive young woman of part Indian ancestry, at the nome of Nathan Straus, 27 West Seventy-second Str In the inter vening #tx years he and Mra. Croker appear to have enjoyed life toxether ut bis Palm Beach “wigw and on nis Irish estate ‘That well-known Amertean, Luther Burbank, was sixty-seven when he ‘ook as his wife his attractive young secretary, Miss Elizabeth Waters, who was twenty-eight at the time of her marriage. ‘An elderly. Romeo who with his Yuliet created ever so much excite ment in New York some t years ~ FIVE OF THE YOUTHFUL BRIDES WHO HAVE MARRIED AGED ROMEOS Oyster, bridegroom of three mont we also read GOING DOWN! Copyright, 1921, by the Pres Pulbtietaing (The New York Rrening Werld), HAR FRIBND: What are D you thinking about? St. Paul advines thinking about things that are TRU HONORABLE, JUST, PURB, LOVING and of GOOD REPORT. These suggestions give us a standard of thinking whereby we may abolish FEAR and Every attitude of life is based on BELIEF, and to believe all things and persons are true, hon orable, just, loving, and of good report will eventually lead to YOUR peace of mind, which is, after all, what you want—is it not? Yours truly ALFALIFA SMITH. ago Was the millionaire steel man Ed- wand Brown Alsop, and his bride, Miss E Pope Hill, At the time of thelr marriage in ‘Trinity Church he was seventy-five and she was twenty. Mr. Alsop had two sons in Harvard one twenty-two and one eighteen Pwo months later the bride was in a sanitarium and Mr. Alsop was trans- fer $1,000,000 of his property to his sons. In 1916 Mr, Alsop sued for divorce in Pittsbureh on grounds of d on and th i ne referee recommend- ed a dec Another latter-day romance of 1 and age which went to the ris for solution was the marr rvey Hart, a wealthy re r of Brooklyn, to Cath- 4 manicure girl. He was and she eighteen at the ir wedding two years agu, d for an annulment Jess than & year later, but the suit was dis- missed and it was his wife who won alimony and a decree of separation. elderly Romeo usual uthful Juliet. but A. Pr octogenarian bri an nd, N. J., chose a more mature last spring. Her first husband Was Mr. Williams's son Frank, wao Ale 1 1891 dete men rent “cc EAR Miss Vincent: Ex treme loneliness impels me to write. 1 high school girl of sixteen. ‘Iam quite certain | have a pleasant manner, for | am acquainted with quite a few girls at school. Still, when | invite these girls to my 12 they always politely refuse, have no girl or boy friends. Can't you please advise me? “DESPAIR.” If you are pleasant mannered, as you say, { cannot understand why you should not make friends at hool, for the school age is when ny lifelong friendships are formed. Most girls go in sets nowadays. Len't there some girl you can make a pal “Dear Miss Vincent: 1! am deeply in love with a young girl, but recently we had a quarrel, At first | did not care, but lately | have felt so lonely that | want to make up with her at once, Her parents do not object to me going with her, but please teil me how to fix it up with her. “BILL K.”" If it was sort of @ fifty-fifty quar rel, in whioh both of you w. blame, just go around to se min a nothing had happened , on the other hand, you f were mostly or wholl her a note of a if you may call again “Dear Miss Vincent: 1 am keeping company with a young man whom | dearly love. He wrote to me every other day, All at once he stopped without ex- Can You Beat It! iyee,. By Maurice Ketten Courtship and Marriage plaining why. | have written two or three times but have re- ceived no anawer. The last time he called he bade me good-night in the usual way and we have never quarrelled. What shall | do? FAITH.” Try to be like the name you signed. By all means do not write again, tor this sometimes provokes a boy and gives him the impression that 1 is “running after him.” If he really cares for you he will call within the next few weeks, and if he does not f should not worry about a young man who is so decidedly “fickle.” “Dear Miss Vincent: | am nine teen and often go to a dance in a certain hall. | met a boy thero whom | really love, but one time my girl friend met him and she has gained his affeotion. | have talked to her, but she gets very angry. | would like to know how to find out if he stilljcares for me H. G.” You will have to let this thing work itself out, and remember that “all is fair in love and war.” Your girl triend was, of course, not very hon orable to you; tut, on the other hand, if the young man ts so easily led wway [ hardly think you need worry “Dear Miss Vincent—I have been going to parties and shows with a nice, sociable girl for about six months and lately | lost my position and was forced to work at night. This gives me no time to go out with her, but the other afternoon | took her to a show and she didn't seem the same as usual and hardly spoke a word. Her mother seems to be fond of me, Re but do you think | should give her up? TAST | LLUSION “PASSES + BY MARGUERITE MOOERS . MORAL: There Is No Santa Claus, No Cinderella, No |ARSHALL Prince Charming — There Is No Irresistible Don Juan, Mocking at Home, Heaven and Husbands— There Never Was! Coprtteht, 1981, by the Prom Publishing Oo., (The New Tork Brening Word | Is just one discarded illusion after another. I IFE for every modern woman First of all, She learned the moon was simply unobtainable, No matter how hard she cried for it. Then some bad little boy, about two years older than herself, Told her the closet in the guest room was locked for a month before Christmas NEW SUBMARINE S-49 LAUNCHED LAST WEEK AT BRIDGEPORT, CONN. +s OSes HE U. &. 8. 8-49, latest addition to Uncle Sam's fleet of subma- i ind one of the latest type, was launched last Saturday at Bridge- port, Conn., sponsored by Mrs. J. E. Austin, wife of Lieut. Commander J. E. Austin, operating manager of the Lake Terpede Boat Company. “R. 6.” Do not be too quick to give this girl up, It may be that she was not in a mood to talk. At out one more time and then, if Bh st take her is moody, have @ long talk with her. “Dear Miss Vincent: 1 don't seem to be as popular with boys as other girls. about m: kid, but she's too A very of mine heard this remar ‘She's a good looking independent.” ood pal passed Now, Miss Vincent, | don’t seem to be able to behave girls who allow every and Harry to hug and kis love to them. attain boy RUTH R.” Ruth, and every girl and make the only way to friends? No, indeed, like other Tom, Dick them Is it who has beaux does not play the Tom, Dick and which you refer. Harry kissing games to I think when your friends said you were too independent they were referring to your manner. Are you & good take pains to entertain and talk terest them? “Dear Miss Vincent; listener? Do you your friends about the things which tn- Have been joing around with a young lady for one year and giving her the best time my means would allow. Lately she has been telling mo that she is going to dances with her qirl friends. However, | am inclined to believe she is going with ether young men. you advise? Unless ye thene no right to surmise this, are dancin, little parties, have seen young men you certalniy have What do 3. He her with Many girls nd getting wp their own by dima Te MRS. ROW. BROWN aLIom ‘THE /ARR FAMILY” . By RoyYr LL.M Copyright, 1921, by the Prem Publinhing Co, 77 ELL, I see you got a now spring iat?" said Bepler, the butcher, “1 need @ new pair of shoes more than | need a new hat, because I can't get no time to go out of my store, but this tile floor wears out shoes and burts tho feets" “I should think the tiled floor would give you cold feet,” said Mr. Jarr, who had dropped in to shop for kidneys. “I got them good thick zocky what was made by my wife m her war knit- ting,” replied the tutcher. “Was 1 telling you my brother Louie, whai lives uptown, was in trouble? No? Well, Louie was called into court for being against the rules of the Board of Health and was discharged mit a countenmand.” “A reprimand,” eaid Mr. Jarr. “Don't he Know what it was? asked Bepler. “He was just in he: telling me about it.” “What did he do to violate the rules of the Board of Leulth?” Mr Jarr inquired “Why,” said the butcher, “you know he plays the clurinet in @ jaze orchestra, It's a yellow clarinet, and if you want to make him mad you an take @ seat near the orchestra, and when he ts playing that yellow arinet, which is turning brown from being old aged where hia hands 1s, you just say to him, ‘Loule, how long did you have to smoke st to oolor it so beautifully?” “What's that got to do with him being summoned to court for viol ing the rules of the Board of Health?” asked Mr. Jarr, it, I was coming to tt, but I to tell you how wo make Louie mad, for some day we muy go up to eo him and have @ good Ume with nim “Ho moves in a new flat uptown, and he has got somo new jazz picces to play mit his orchestra, so he prac: ticea when he gets home to the new flat and plays aM night. The other tenants, they knock on the floors und alis and on the steaan pipes; then in the morning they get a paper what brings Loule to court, where he is discharged with the countermand. “Why didn't he atop playing when the other tenanta hammered?” asked Mr, Jarr. “Then he wouldn't hav been summoned to oourt “Louie said he only tice # little, but when they kno on the walls he the it wa cores, and the more he played, ured as he was, the louder noises were made with the encores. He wus tired nted to 7 FCARDELIL © (‘The New York Brening World) out and his mouth was sore, but an artist can't resist them encores. “What do you think of this hat? It jooks swell and {s sold for a reason- able price,” sid Mr. Jarr, turning the nversation from Beplers brother Louie and his troubles. “It looks all right," eald Bepler, “but when you go to a swell restau- rant mit friends and are coming gut the hat boy always says ‘Which gen- Ueman’s is this “Two Dollanno?’” » T don't cara said Mr. Jarr. “It's good enough for me. Well, let me have a pound of lamb's kidneys Why aren't meats cheaper when hats are? “Can you eat a hat when you get tired of looking at it?” asked tho butcher as hi wrepood up Mr. Jarr's purchase. “No, for hats ain't like kidneys or calves liver—useful as well as ornamental.” PER a ay ‘Tae MAYOR | DELHI , * BY BIDE DUDLEY + Copreghe 1921, vy Um Prem Publishing Oo, The New’ York Breung World.) HE Great Northwestern Circus showed in Delhi Saturday last, but it will not be permitted to iteh iv tents there again while Cyrus Perkins Walker is Mayor, Mr, alker is incensed over an incident hat occurred Saturday evening dur- ug the performance, He believes It was tneant to harm him politica At one point in the show the ring- master brought out @ donkey and said ‘Ladies and gentlemen, this ttle animal bas no name, Any boy who can stick on his back two minutes may name him, Come one, come ani" Litde Mickey Biugw, eon of an Anti-Walker Democrat, performed the feat and was asked what he cared to bame the donkey, After ooa- sulting with his father he replied: “T name him Cyrus Perkins Walker.” Roars of laughter followed. When Mayor could make himself beard suid ‘his is am insult Is Constable Pelee Brown tm the tent?” , “Fught here, sir!" sang out Brown, “Arrest that man Brown flew at the elder Blygg. A fieht followed in which the onstable knocked down four times and in the sawdust twice, Ho» Jed in snaring his man, how- giving Blugg a lolly-pop. Jent bas set the whole town over, by talking. ‘There (# nich indignation BEAUTY HEALTH BY DR.GHARLOTTE C. WEST Corts Now York ™eralne Wonk Falling Hair. ‘OMEN are not as a rule con- fronted with that bugbear of middie age, baldness, al- though the hair grows thinner with years and at times does fall out enough to require special care. This ia often the case after a severe ill- ness, espectally typhoid fever. The custom of cutting the hair close and even shaving the scalp to combat this condition is now ante dated. Singeing has absolutely no effect upon falling hair or in strength- ening what is left. This is a falla cious popular idea. Clip the broken ends, of course, as they look un- sightly, but treat the scalp! Very often no amount of local treatment avails when the eonstitution is at fault Hi ‘The following preparation ts highly extolled by a noted specialist for all conditions of scant, thinning and fall- ing hadr: Quinine sulphate, 75 grains tincture of cantharides, 2 ounce’ weaker tincture of orris, 4 ounces; cologne water, 10 ounces; water, 10 yunces; alcohol, 8 ounc tinett ot cureuma, enough to color. (This be omitted.) Dissolve the quinine in the cologne water and alcohol, add the tinctures, coloring and water, let stand o day, then filter clear. Use with @ medicine dropper or sprinkler stopper and rub briskly Into the scalp every night, then two or three times weekly. | ‘The hair May become gray prema- turely ag a result of iflness, nervous conditions, neuralgic headaches, or this may be @ family trait. While gray hair ts beautiful, It ts often of jectlonable, for commercial reasons Can it be remedied without resorting to dyes? Pilocarpine (or its active principle, jaborand!), has long been | known to possess the property of| darkening the hair ag well ax pro moting Its growth. Hero is appended the formula of @ famous French dermatologist, which. | like the above tonic, is employed by men and women of taste and dis crimination; Quinine sulphate, 20 grains; tincture of jaborandi, 1 nce glycerin, 1 ounce cologne water, 2 ounces; Bay rum, 2 ounces; rose water, 11 ounces; ditute sulphu acid, 11 drops, Dissolve the quinine in the rose water with the aid of the acid, add the other ingredients and filter. Rub Into the scalp with fric- tion every day or every other day: | ‘This ts Wikewiae an excellent lotion | for dark hair, but {9 not applicable Because mother and dad stored all the presents there, And there wasn’t any Santa Claus, ‘The latest thing in child culturista, Who attended in the most highly efficient manner to her education. Gently bat firmly disabused her young mind Of any lMngering belief tn fairies, Or in such delightful personages as Cinderella, Puss in Boots, Jack the Giant Killer. In earlier eras of civilization ‘The poor dear flapper was allowed te dream her long, long thoughts About Prince Charmtng— To whom she gave the physical at tributes of Apollo, The wealth of Croesus, The romantic passion of Romeo, The social position of the Prince of Wales. Nowadays, the early feminist catches the “bud,” And explains to her that Prince Charming, even if he actually existed, Would not want his wife to vote or carry « latchkey; Also the feminist is very, very frank As to the “real natures” of men— So the illusion of the chivalrous, un- selfishly devoted young lover Goes the way of all the others, Nevertheless we did cling to one time-hallowed tradition— One pleasant, perilous “thrill”— One legendary figure, Even the modern woman believed mm Don Juan! She imagined him handsome, debon- air, hotly passionate, coldly eruel, Daneing from heart to heart, Sipping the sweets from each flower he passed, Mocking at home, heaven—and bus- bands, LIVING HIS LIFE! Sometimes the modern woman e: thought, for a minute or so, That she had met Don Juan in the flesh— Although he always turned out to be a Greenwich Village psychoana- lyst, Or a business man who flirted with in the intervals married women between “deals.” Still, she lived in hopes that the At- tila of sex some day would cause her virtuous heart to skip @ beat or two. And now, it’s too, too tate? For M. Rostand, in his most mordané / and penetrating play, Has just taken the lid off the Dom Juan myth, And shown us an empty epace, im. habited by a shadow Who was NEVER anything bat the! plaything of woman's imagination and passions. And, down in our hearts, we know Rostand is right—darn him! And there isn’t Dlack-mustached betrayer jst—and adore, DAY if aLady Should live in « shoe, With so many children She'd know what todo She’d feed them on Bond Bread, of course, Wouldn't you? Bond _ Dread for other shades unless the jaborand! te left ows . any irresistible, i a 5 4 IF we \ 4 ii