New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-07-07

,oors NJ subsistence thus suddenly CIT on
,nsiutea that bis wife's parents should con-
,;nue 70 him the allowance they had made to
their daughter. They naturally declined pay
mo apv such nremium to the man who had
rendered their home des0latc. lie sued uieni
and actually obtained verdict for pension
upon this prepOsterous demand. Iney theio-
mon left Paris, and this enterprlsng son-in-
law followed them to New-YOrk, and brought
snit in the United States Court to compel the
navment of the sum fixed for his support by
the French Courts. Judge Woodruff MADE
short work of the matter, however and NJ dc
Brimont returned to Paris, where his last ex-
nlot is that of Striking" the newspapers
which reported the trial.
If YOU bray the Partisan American young
lady in a mortar it is perhaps too much 10
hope that you can cause to depart from her the
desire to marry title. But one would thlnk
that the contemplation of few such cases as
this would do much to cure those OF average
common sense Of any tendencies in that direc-
ton. We would not waste words in address,
ing young people who fall in love. a whole
college faculty recently failed in persuadlng
a bright and good young lady to give up an
adventurer who called himself Count, and
whose back rvaled that of the zebra in stripes
received in many lands. This was proved over
and over to the young lady, and she answered
all the proof with the exasperating but ire
futable statement that she loved him.
She married him, and it may be that she
will never regret it, She had money
enough for both, and some thieves treat their
women kindly. But in most cases of foreign
marriages, it is question purely of vanity on
one side and of greed on the other. The lady
thinks only of the cOrOnet and the gentleman
only of the bank account. Sometimes for such
accidents cannot be guarded against, one OF
the parties falls in love after marriage and NJ
Droz, in a recent novel, gives mastery de-
lineaton of the misery which results In That
case. A young lady of large fortune marries
ruined roue with noble name. He treats her
with contemptuous neglect and throws away
her money upon gamblers and wantons. She
knows this and loves him all the more for it. She
says TO her COnfcssor, 1t is because he de-
"spises me and prefers these dr6lesses to me,
cit is because he wastes my money and breaks
"my heart that / am wild about him; for all
"this shows that he is noble and am bolIr-
geoiser In most of these international
marriages, however, there is no such depth OF
feeling on either side. There is partner
ship, which each party pretends to understand,
but in which the woman is invariably cheated.
She knows the husband is not Of the best
material but she thinks the title will make
amends. She usually finds the husband
worse than she thought and the title much
less satisfactory. The tone of morals
,..,o.,. Il. MOI, of tba world on tho Continent
received such damage during the twenty years
of the French Empire that it will take many
more years to recover. This degeneration is
shown in recent works of fiction and in recent
plays which have excited universal criticism
and disgust. But this cutlery comes from two
ciasses-the depraved spirits who know the
pictures are true, and think they should not
be made public and the honest folks who
call them false. The people who reyolycd
around the Tuileries in the last ten years OF
the Empire have nothing to learn from Belot
or Dumas.
1t was only among that corrupt and essen
TALLY vulgar set that this worship of titles
survived There were so few men of good
family who recognized the Emperor that he
was charmed with the adhesion of those who
came and they were always welcome in the
Tuileres and the Civil Service The Ameri-
can Imperialists naturally shared in this folly
and attributed an exaggerated importance to
titles of nobility. But in fact a title is now
worth very little anywhere on the Continent.
In France, for instance, there are 10000 titles,
while in England there are only about 800
Lords, and the value of the designation is in
the corresponding ratio. In Germany Grain
may let lodgings and a Baroness may bring
home your washing Many an American girl
who, while unmarried, was the pet of the Pal
ace has found that she descended in social
position by becoming Countess. Our country
women should remember they are soveregns,
and that they will make m6salliance by mar
rying any subject.