The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-12-02
MARRYING TITLES.
A Few Fact. Regarding Such Marriages.

4 Few Facts Regarding Such Marriages.
Paris Cor. Philadelphia Telegraph
Now, without entering into any further
argument on this much discussed topic,
I shall briefly sketch the results of few
of these unions as they came under my
own observation.
Case No. is that of titled gentleman
who espoused, after the usual prelimi-
naries of dowry and settlements, the
daughter of celebrated American
financier. After few years of marriage
the lady died, leaving for her spouse the
father of an only child-a daughter.
Time passed on, and the husband con-
soled himself with one of the most beauh-
full and notorious members of the den1i-
monde of Paris, and finally ended by
marrying her. The fanny of the first
wife were naturally anxious to rescue the
little girl from the contamination of her
step-mother's influence and training.
But tho titled papa set so extortionate
pride on the possession of his child
that her grandparents were forced to op-
pose a negative to his demands. Con-
sequently the daughter of the American
belle remains in the hands of a woman
who was famed for her depravity, ever
among the depraved women of the class
from which she sprung.
Case No. 2 opened with fair prospect
of happiness on the part of the newly
welded pair. The bride was beautiful,
gentle, intelligent, accomplished, a de-
vout Catholic, and passionately in love
with her husband. He, on the other
hand, was young and handsome, and
though he had sown his wild oats rather
profusely, and reaped therefrom plenti-
full crop of debts, there was every hope
that under the influence of his fair bride
and in the enjoyment of fixed and set
tied income he might see the error of his
ways and settle down into a steady men,
ber of society. As regards the fortune,
he displayed, as is usual in such cases,
vast amount of anxiety respecting it,
refusing even to drive out with his
betrothed and her mother before all
financial preliminaries were arranged,
for fear of compromising himself. Nor
could he well forgive his future father
in-law for 80 tying up the young wife's
dowry that it could not be squandered.
However, their welded life began
smoothly enough. Then came rumors
of the conjuga1 infidelities on the hus-
bands part, of gross neglect, and finally
of actual corporal ill-usage inflicted on
his charming wife. In the language of
my information, che used to beat her
like sack" He, the representative of
one of the oldest and noblest houses of
Europe, did. not disdain to lift his hand
against the hapless lady who, for her
own. sorrow, had bought him and paid
for him with price, The end of the
whole matter is legal separation The
husband has gone off to his lady-love,
and the wife, not yet thirty and in the
very fullness and perfection of her
womanly charms, has taken refuge once
more under the parental roof.
Case No. 8 is that of an American girl
who became the wife of noble of long
descent a few years ago, and who in
stantly .'cut' every one of her former
acquaintance, avowing her intention oi
henceforward associating only with ''the
aristocracy." Of late she has had nc
chance to associate with the particular
specimen of the aristocracy who became
herhusband, as they are legally separated,
and while she resides in Paris in rather
modest style, he is to be seen at half the
prominent watering places of Europe
driving the most dashing members OF
the denei-naonde on the public prone
nades, in his open carriage.