The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-08-16

rrovont If if the authority of mother can
nrevail he never shall destroy his pros
meets for the sum of less than 100000.
that would be little enough to excuse you
and me for aiding him in marrying beneath
his rank"
II would as soon 60 to Botany Bay TO
look for husband as ever to have married
any one in America with any fortune after
having married as did. Any person of
sense and pride would have felt as I did on
this subject and all those who wished 'py
happiness would have been happy to
see me permanently fixed in Europe, be-
cause after the marriage had made it be-
come impossible for me to lower my views
and feelings sufficient to endure residence
in Baltimore. never was calculated for
the lite led there, My beauty, my sense
and my ambition, and the admiration due
| to them-all these rendered it absurd to
expect that I could possibly be satisfied
with living there. My son has inherited
some of the qualities which possess. He
is not deficient in talent or beauty, but he
wants the pride and ambition which give
them value. He is certainly at liberty to
live where he likes. | may deploro the
humility of disposition which allows him to
marry in Baltimore, but as | can not in
spire him with my tastes and feelings |
must try to bear this disappointment as
well as | can. think, however that my
consent ought to have been asked, and that
better terms ought to have been made, He
has been treated no better, and not as well,
as the sons Of any of the apothecarcs and
shopkecpers who have married American
heiresses. do not rccollect any of them
having been cut off from the fortunes Of
their wives. The income ought to have
been thrown in their faces if offered with
out half Of the principal. The children,
too. ought to have been provided for if he
died before her. | have no patience to
think of his having been so completely
sacrificed. ! would not have allowed Inn
to marry even person Of family upm such
terms, let alone in Baltimore"
NO one likes money more than | dol
am, perhaps, too avariclous- but | would
not, even at my age, marry any che n
America with 100000 year, and m, pre-
tensions are certainly, or ought to be, much
lower than his. No one, repeat. knows
the value of money better than myself, or
has suffered more from the want of i. /
am OF the opioion that Miss Williams his
too little to compensate for young man
connected with the first families IN Europe
riveting himself to Baltimore.
If he were starving it might be excused
If she had 100000 and could be taken
away from her family and enable him to
! live in ItoIy, - .,icsht 40, hut 70 l;-o ,,,on
$4,000 year where she is, can never be
made advisable with his advantages"
Then the vain, head-turned old lady des-
canted about herself, in manner exceed
ingly disgusting to American women Of
spirit:
"Whcn my son left Europe | told lin
never to marry in America, and ! havere-
peated the same thing in every letter to lin
since. certainly never would have mar
ried any one there after having married the
brother Of an Emperor, and when / found
that was likely to live there, would nave
committed suicide if ! had not been too
| great coward.
Il have no other idea OF comfort in any
other mode Of life than in courts and living
with people of rank and going into company
every day. l hate retirement and domestic
life, and have sacrificed through life ovory-
thing to my ambition; therefore, it could
not be expected that should ever advise
my son to marry in Baltimore"
MY ambition, my beauty and my intel
lect unified me for the life led in America,
and after my marriage all those who desired
my happiness must naturally have wished
me to be established in Europe. 1t became
the proper residence for me and for my son.
My position and his bore no resemblance to
that Of American wives and American sons,
add only stupidity and meanncss of feeling
on our part could have rendered Baltimore
agreeable to US