The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-05-22
Titled American Bellies,

As look out upon the gay Boulevard
des Capucines and note some fair faces in
fhe stylish carriages passing, and recollect
that once they were the admiration of
broad and also very narrow American
circle at home" and when l recall their
native names, now lost under foreign IL
ties, am amazed at what the Cockney
landlady in the play calls "the hups and
the downs" 1t is a source of much in
ward wormwood and gall to some of us 10
behold these fair ones lost to American
citizenship and lolling under French coro-
nets. But love is sometimes blind and
sometimes very much wideawake, and
when the latter, not even ducal or a
baronial title will cause the most inde-
pendent American republican girl to blink,
Look at the list, even in my momentary
memory of our Republican Court !"
bellies: The Duchess de Praslin Choiseul
is charming, stately lady, well known In
Baltimore society. The Countess Charette
is one of family whose name is a house
hold word in Tennessee and identified with
the polished period of a Presidency of the
United States when grand and gracious
manners marked men Of court" No
higher links of royal alliances can there
be found in France than those of Nine.
Charette by her French marriage, even il
you look down the avenue of great per-
sonages as far as you will and back again
| to the venerable Duchess of st. James,
the grandmother of Nm. Charette's step
children. Yet those who can recall the
person of our simple bearing Democrat,
President Polk, little dream that on the
banks of the Seine dwells his favorite
niece, surrounded by the Royalists of the
Bourbon and Legitimist schools and she the
most charming of them all, crowned with
womaply virtues, the tue pride of an
American lady. And from the Crescent
| City" came belle of rare qualities aid
womanly beauties, whose name, as the
lovely Nm. de Dampier, few OF US will
forget when refined taste and exquisite
surroundings are the topics of our talk
/ might say something of the MaIchlones.
Id'Hurscle, of New York, and that ole
group of the Power society
but for the present l remain silent.
might also say something of another sis
ter who became the Princess Lanti, ant
made a mark in society at Rome, but thel
who became the Marcbioness GaI otti an,
the adopted daughter-in-law of the lat
Pope Pho Nino, and as / am not disposet
to dwell on details l simply allude 4
these names formally to show the attrac
ton of our bellies to the gallants abrva,
and point to the failures of our beaus a
home. Here / might also say somcthin;
Oh u lovely niece Oh Une foregoing tnre'
ladies. who became the Countess Sala ant
graced the salons of Paris and Turin a
we'll as of Naples and Rome, but spac
forbids the pleasure. How much, in tn
way of challenging our home-gallants
can be said when the names of tn
Countess de Damas and her sister, VIII
married an Italian Prince, are alluded te
Both in Baltimore and New York the FAM
" pedigree and pious family examples O
these fair and fortunate ones is ateflll
known. So, too. that of the Counties
Montanban, and now that Miss Hunger
ford, of California, is added to the list Q
foreign-titled American bellies, as 1 mer
toned in my last letter. it is source @
some laudable and anxious curiosity +
know who comes next? why" say T.
myself, Monumental City" fair CON
panion, do not some of our American
men come over here and marry n Princes
: or two, Just by way of revenge?" ID
you see that little maiden with bi
: Normandy cap, dark blue stocking,
J bright t-colored kerchief, and with he
violetblue eyes and sweet, artless smile
, even she would not marry other than
Frenchman!" Why have our girls nc
, the same patriotism g-T Baltimore Sun