Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-05
TITLES.

4 FetU Facts Regarding Such MARRIAGES.
Paris Correspondence Philadelphia Telegraph.
Now, without entering into any further
argument on this much discussed topic, I
shall briefly sketch the results of a few of
these unions as they came under my own
observation.
Case No. 1 is that of a titled gentleman
who espoused, after the usual preliminaries
of dowry and settlements, the daughter of
a celebrated American fnancier. After q
few years of marriage the lady died, leaving
her spouse the father of an only chiId-a
daughter. Time passed on, and the husband
consoled himself with one of the most beau
tiful and notorious members of the demi-
monde of Paris, and finally ended by marry-
ing her. The family of the first wife were
naturally anxious to rescue the little girl
from the contamination of her stepmother's
influence and training. But the titled papa
set so extortionate a price On the possession
of his child that her grandparents were
forced to oppose a negative to his demands.
Consequently the daughter of the American
belle remains in the hands of a woman who
was famed for her depravity, even among the
depraved women of the class from which she
sprung.
Case No. 2 opened with a fair prospect of
happiness on the part of the newly-wedded
pair. The bride was beautiful, gentle, in
telligent, accomplished, q devout Catholic,
~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 a plentiful
crop of debts, there was every hope that
under the influence of his fair bride and in
the enjoyment of a fixed and settled income
he might see the error of his ways and settle
down into a steady member of society. As
regards the future, he displayed, as is usual
In such cases, a vast mount 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
so tying up the young wife's dowry that it
could not be s~quandered. However, their
welded life began smoothly enough. Then
came rumors of the conjugal infidelities on
the husbands part of gross neglect. and
finally of actual corporal ILL usage inflicted
on his charming wife. In the language of
my informant, she used to beat her like a
sack" He, the representative of one of
the Oldest and noblsst 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 a price.
The end of the whole matter is a legal sep
aration. The husband has gone off to his
lady love, and the wife, not yet 80 and in
the very fullness and perfection of her
womanly charms, has taken refuge once
more under the parental root.
Case No. 8 is that of an American girl
who became the wife of a noble of long de-
scent q few years ago, and who instantly
''cut' every one of her former acquaintance,
avowing her intention of henceforward
associating only with the "aristocracy.' OF
late she has had no chance to associate with
the particular specimen of the aristocracy
who became her husband, as they are legally
separated, and while she resides in a rather
modest style, he is to be seen at half the
prominent watering places of Europe driv-
ing the most dashing members of the demi.
monde on the public promenades in his open
carriage.