The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-07-16
Marrying Foreign Titles.

An American lady, who Gloves those
dear aristocrats" devoutly, was telling
me some time since about an American
girl, Miss Y, of one Of our Western
States, who was sold to a Baron De.
This high aristocrat married her with
the distinct understanding that he should
receive with her dot of 100000. But
as this sum constituted the whole of the
fortune left Miss X by her father,
the noble Baron De was obliged to
ask that the family of the intended bride
should raise an additional sum of AGO.
900 francs to pay off the gaming and
other debts. This the mother of Miss
Y paid out of her own private for
tune, so eager was the mamma to have
her daughter well married! The noble
Baron De would take the daughter
on no other condition. How humiliat.
ing it must be to a girl, if she has the
slightest self-respect left, to know that
she gains husband only by such igno.
BILE barter and upon such base terms!
"But then," added my lady informant,
'you must recollect that she had the
honor of dining after her marriage with
some of the best families in Europe, with
the Prince De Thingumbob, the Count
Won Whatshisname, the Princess De
Whodyecallem and all those! And |
have heard say she has even been pre-
sented at court in Vienna and Berlin and
spoken with the Emperor and En-
press!" Just think of it. Contemplate
the tremendous honor, and then say if
you do not think that all that glory was
dirt cheap at the price Miss Y paid
for it. To have had three minutes con-
versation with an Emperor-is that not
cheap at 100000? To have sat at the
board of Prince-is that not worth at
least a million?
An American, now resident of Paris,
who married one of his daughters to a
Prince De l., about five years since,
and gave the husband 100000 to take
his daughter off his hands, says that he
has one more daughter left and another
100000 to spare for the right prince or
other nobleman when he comes along.
Mr. ought not to have to wait long
for bridegroom. The price is suffi.
GENTLY high, in point of fact extravagant.
There are plenty of played-out noble
men ia be bought for one-fifth that
amount every DAY in the year in Paris,
plenty of counts, dukes and not few
princes who would bite eagerly and
hungrily at bait gilded with one Or
two hundred thousand dollars. 1t
sounds much grander and looks a great
deal larger when multiplied by five, and
converted into francs. One million
francs certainly seems great deal more
money than 100000. Apropos of mar
rying for money, am reminded of a
funny story told me by an American
young lady who has been studying mu-
sic for some time in Vienna and Paris,
and is now singing with great success in
Italy. Iallude to Miss Clara Bernstein,
of Cincinnati, o. One evening at a
social gathering Frenchman asked
her: "Your musical education must
have cost you a great deal of money, has
it not, Mile. BernsteinP"
"Oh, yes; quite sum-"
"Well, now, don't you think you
would have acted more wisely to have
saved that money and got marriedP"
Miss Bernstein looked at her interrog-
ator quizzically and responded: "Per-
haps so, but on the other hand l don't
believe l could have bought just the
husband that would suit me for that
amount of money, you !"-Parts
Cor. San Francisco Chronicle.