San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-05-04
Marrying Titles.

II was not long since that French
count i'll 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 bad spent immense
sums Of her money in betting and
gambling and in living life of prof
legacy, and had treated her so cruelty
during their short married life that she
died broken-hearted.
An incident 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 had been
incurred through gambling and q dis.
solute life. He had 10 means with him
to pay the demands, neither had his
wife, and as their trunks had been sent
on in advance, and the arrangements
all made for the journey, he told his
wife to keep on and he would meet her
in Liverpool before the sailing of their
steamer after having made some ar
rangement with his creditors. This
wife went on to Liverpool and this
baron stayed behind, but it was four or
five days before he was able to satisfy
his creditors, either by promises or the
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 Liver
pool had disappeared, but another COM
passionate 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 a small amount
just sufficient to take him to Liverpool,
where he at length arrived to find that
his wife had left in steamer three
days previous, and himself without a
dollar in his pocket. Representing to
one of the steamer agents who he was,
and showing papers that identified him
as being veritable baron, he was per-
mitted 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 her
relations would come to his aid-which
it is to be presumed they did.
An American lady who married IT,
tie in Saxony, after enduring several
years of cruel treatment, neglect and
misery, recently took sudden flight to
her friends across the Atlantic, forsak-
ing the bed and board of her titled hus-
band, never to return to it.
Such instances as these of unhappy
marriages contracted by American girls
abroad are constantly taking place, and
q record of their histories and the
wretched 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:
TO those ambitious mothers who would
sell their daughters for title, and to
those daughters who would run the
risk of sacrificing future happiness by
uniting themselves to worthless sclons
of nobility, 1 would give Pttuchs adj
vice to the unmarried-"Don,t. -
Springfield Republican.