The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1882-05-11
Mauying Titles.


1t was not long since that a French
count in Paris, who had married a
wealthy and accomplished American
lady, was detected secretly pawning her
! diamonds and Jewels to raise money to
gamble with, while she lay on her death
| bed. He had spent immense sums of
her money in betting and gambling, and
In living life of profligacy, and had
treated her so cruelty during their short
married life that she died broken-heart-
ed. An accident recently happened in
the Kingdom of Wurtemburg which
caused quite ripple in the upper class
OF society there at the time. A German
baron, who had started with his wife to
visit her home in America, had got as
far as the railway station when he was
arrested by his creditors, who supposed
he was fleeing the country never to re-
turn, for heavy debts which he had in
CURED through gambling and dissolute
life He had no means with him to paw
the demands, neither had his wife, and
as their trunks had been sent on in ad-
vance, and the arrangements all made
for the journey, he told his wife to keep
on and lie would meet her in Liverpool
before the sailing of their steamer after
having made some arrangements with
his creditors. This wife went on to Liver
pool and this baron stayed behind, but
It was four or five days before he was
able to satisfy his creditors, either by
promise or interposition of some kind
friend so as to be able to depart. While
thus detained, the pocket money his wife
had given him to pay his expenses to
Liverpool had disappeared, but another
compassionate friend was induced to
loan him $500, by giving security on his
wife's furniture and silver-plate so that
he was enabled to start on his journey.
Passing through London he fell among
gamblers at one of the clubs who could
handle cards better than he could, and
his $500 quickly disappeared with the
exception of small amount Just suffi-
cient to take him to Liverpool. where he
at length arrived to find that his wife
had leftin steamer three days previous,
and himself without a dollar in his pock-
ct. Representing himself to one of the
steamer agents who hewas, and showing
papers that identified him as being a
veritable baron, he was permitted to
take passage on the next steamer, with
the understanding that his passage
would be paid at the other end Of the
route, where his wife or wife's relations
would come to his aid-and which it is
to be presumedthe did. An American
lady who married a title in Saxony, after
enduring several years of cruel treat
ment, neglect and misery, recently took
sudden flight to her friends across the
Atlantic, forsaking the bed and board of
her titled husband, never to return to it.
Such incidents as these of unhappy
marriages contracted by American girls
abroad are constantly taking place, and
a record of their histories and the wretch |
ed lives which many of them have led |
would fill volumes. Marriages with |
foreigners which have proved happy |
and unalloyed with more or less misery |
are exceptional and far between. Tc |
those ambitious mothers who would sell |
their daughters for a title, and to those |
daughters who would run the risk of |
sacriicipo NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., ;ti.-y,
l would give Punch's advice to the un-
married. t."-SpriRgfeld Repub-
licdn.