The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-04
Marrying Titles. !.

1t was not long since that 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
nlliving a life of profigacy, 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 a dissolute
life. He had no means with him to pay
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 he 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 be 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 suffi-
cient to take him to Liverpool. where he
at length arrived to find that his wife
had left in asteamer three days previous,
and himself without dollarin his peck
eti Representing himself to one of the
steameraoents who he was, and showing
papers that identified him as being
veritab1e baron, he was permitted to
take passage on the next steamer, with
the understanding that his passage
would be paid atsthe. other end of the
route, where his wife or wife's relations
would come to his aid-and which it is
to be presumed they did, An American
lady who married title in Saxony, after
enduring several years of cruel treat
ment, neglect and misery. recently took
sudden fight 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
q 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 una:foyed with more or less misery
are exceptional and far between. To
those ambitious mothers who would sell
their daughters for g title, and TO those
daughters who would run the risk of
sacrificing future happiness by uniting
themselves TO worthless seions of nobility,
would give Punch's advice to the I'M
married don't. ''-Sprtsagfeld Repas6-
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