ROMANCES OF SCHOOLBOY HUSBANDS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 47, 4 June 1910, Page 9

ROMANCES OF SCHOOLBOY HUSBANDS.

*Mr. Philaifler C.Wtnox Mjoipl tr runmnf sMyllrOm s&roraml'nVedng a .pretty little drapery assistant, is % no means the first schoolboy who .has, his books to indulge in luxury of a honeymoon. *luJb&ASbtail»& §n<ls who were still wrestling with Cassitrand gntfjjdjlfihotliik cohimoil as'they' fe to-day, were by no means a novejt.}'.. deed, one reads of a very youthful' tordling, who., had not yejt seen his 4venth l>irlhday: his 1 trdth j a't t&e altar to a bride whose summers "three, and" \MT proved" r&tiier a troublesome charge to her fin another case tlft f-Mgiffl MA* aacient peerage was summoned from mon to assmne the uimxne£te4 role & bridegroom to 1 HW &vMyear ter hand and fortune 'his father had won in. a game' of <^rds. ❖lmmediately after the ceremony the violent dislike to the unprepossessing young lady, was packed off again to sctorirr«bil4.4h»»*nde -was sent back to her nursery in tears. For many years neither saw the other. The youthful lordling finished his school and University mnt forji<s»>toflfred < tour fbuife tie w s 6fla, w#E|>t|tiej(fcfi>il. ing the least desire to meet again the unattractive young lady -whoih" nh3 J ' married against his will. CXq?Hh?4 tn EtifflaTid he chanced tn«ro to a theatre

wheYe, In £ ietf ttie&ofet entrancing vision r vt ! fenMe 7 -lo venness'' he ■had -«2ier f nS?S»vi76'^^ l| ,Jß r „thjit.^pyel i y ; young lady??fajie[,,^e# i "Why, sir, don't you know?" was the answer. "That is l£sm,-i%y&it>mM /beautiful woman in England, and ta«J toast of iM tyWK'-, Jhe duciv ling" of ten.yesffs 4igw inacr*blossomed. into -tfe 4bW'|e?tetf u W6ma ! ixl/'Wvßiy ed his lordship proudly introduced himself aqnfcefc Husband) to the ladyiWaom-rh& had spent so many years in avoiding. The records of many romance runaway schoolboys wlio have over tie girder. In'junL.i&ok, society was considtetaWrr amused by the news that Mr. D&wSftiyVa y^ng 1 ' Etonian of eighteen, had eloped-iithaaj dowager flaAy ed in the contemporary accounts^'i;js4ft w^faMfyim^RPte 1 ?.* r.. ■••or • "A renronkajjle r feature: ~<(#; this romance,'' says the Times, "is the fact that the Dowager was, as a girl, unsuccessfully wooed by the hoy's grandfather, father. The runaway couple posted the whole way from London to Gretna Green, covering the long journey in fourdays and nights, and are, it spending their lands oif Scotland. M|^pwA^|^^| awaiting /the challenge him to a dnS^P^miC^^^i thejpaet. 'apien a '-fell- in lovg : wia| and was secretly married to, ms master's daughter, tffe* f at .the-ttima was, at wW^nenas\ ! Sho»v after consßinption anff died, leaving her schoolboy feisband, who had dutiful}® ]p}|jjinj>jf to hfjibooks,, a widower. Within a year, howeSjer, the young Lothario found con-

Ed of his aj lettar td T5»-old son-in-law,' stating that 'as the 'husband of a second wife dut.not thins it consistent with subnjit any more to men}?/" % —.