The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-27
n AMERICAN BELLIES.
Anne rican Ladies' VINO Have succeeded In
Marrying NOhlemen.

PARTS Correspondence Baltimore SUM-
have said something already on matrimo-
NAL alliances between the distinguished for
eigner' and the extinguished American, be
they OF old Rome Or new Paris, "big bonan-
"a" or .'little Baltimore" and Ii / may credit
the silvery tongue OF Mime. Rumor, 1.-THE cry
Ia still they come" suppose 1t Is perfectly
proper to thus rob our country of our fair
women and denatlonalize them, but methinks
the Baltimore beaux had better bestir them
selves and be up and doing. A fair girl from
the Monumental City has Just told me 1t Is all
the fault Of the men. Now, can 1t be 80 that
our rallants have gone, and naught but their
name and fame tell us Of the glorious past,
when they carried ell before and with them
AS look out upon the gay boulevart des "a
pucines and note some fair faces In the stylish
carriages passing, and ollect that once they
were the admiration OF a broad and also o
very narrow American circle at home," and
when / recall their native names, now lost
under foreign titles, am amazed at what the
Cockney lalidlady in the play calls the "hups
and the downs" 1t Is O source Of much In
ward wormwood and gall to some OF US to be-
hold these fair ones lost to American citizen
ship and lolling under French coronets; but,
as | have said before, love is sometimes blind
and sometimes very much wide awake. and
| when the latter, not even ducal or a barOnial
| title will cause the most independent Ameri-
| can republican girl to blink. Look at the list,
even In my momentary memory, Of our re-
publican court" bellies: The Duchess De
we'll known In Baltimore society; the CouI-
| tess Charette Is one Of O family whose name
| is d household word In Tennessee ana identi-
fled with the polished period OF Presidency
I'll the United States, when grand and gra-
| cious manners marked men of court" No
higher links of royal alliances can there be
1 found In France than those Ut Nine. Cha
| rette by her French marriage, even II YOU
4 look down the avenue OF great persOnnges az
far .as you will, and back again to the veneer
of Nine Charatte's step-chidren. 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 royal
ists of the Bourbon and Legitimists' schools
and she the most charming of them oil
crowned with wOmanly virtues, the true pride
| or an American lady. And from the Crescent
City came belle OF rare qualities and
| womanly beauties, whose meme, az the lovely
Nine. De Dafnpier, few OF us will forget
when refined taste and exquisite surround
ings are the topics Of our talk. | might say
something Of the Warehouses D'Hursele, oil
New York, and that old group Of the Living
ston- Power society, but for the present re-
main silent. / might also say something 81
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Lanti and made mark In society at Rome,
but then / should have to speak OF third
sister, who became the Marchioness Garottl
and the adopted daughter-in-law Of the late
Pope Pho Nino; and, as l am not disposed to
dwell on details, l simply allude to these
names formally to show the attraction OF our
bellies to the gallants abroad and point to the
failures of our beaux ct home. Here might
also say something Of a lovely niece Of the
foregoing three ladies, who became the
Countess Sala, and graced tine salons OF Paris
and Turin as we'll as Of Naples and Rome
but space forbids the pleasure. How much
In the way Of challenging our home gallants
can be said when the names Of the Countess
| De Damas and her sister, who married al
| italian Prince, are alluded to. Both in Balti
more and New York the family pedigree and
pious family examples Of these fair and for
tunate ones is gratefully known. So, too
| that of the Countess Montauban; and now
| that Miss Hungerford, OF California, is added
to the liet of foreign-titled American bellies
| as / mentioned In my last letter, 1t is a source
| of some laudable and anxious curiosity tx
know who comes next?