The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-10-13
MARRYING TITLES.
The Fate Of American Heiresses
Who Marry Foreign Lords.

I'll felt free to mention name
could tell tales to wiring the heart
about American girls who have mar
ri d English nobleman. In almost
every instance it proves fatal to the
brides happiness. 1t amt long
since Lord Flyfinger married the
heiress Of an American Cresus.
There was a tremendous time about
it. She was envied by all her mar
riageable cronies, and old Croesus
was congratulated on a fine alliance.
He grinned with self-complacency
and handed over 81, SOC, 900 to his
Lordship Flyfinger on the spot.
| Flyfinger took the wife and money
and brought them to England, where
he introduced her to a few acquaiat-
ances aud leaves her to shift for her
self while he travels with relays Of
fast horses and mistresses, races and
hunts, CANDLES and lives a wild life
on a million and u half of money for
which he sold the shelter of his title
to that sprigtly, hopeful, ambitious
American girl. Five Dr. six years
ago an American girl, whose name
was on all lips, married a rich Eng.
lishman, who had the entree of high
society in England, She has slept
in 4 social cocoon ever since, heartily
wishing herself home, not seeing for
months the husband who loves to fol-
low the hounds. An American gen.
tleman living here, whose name
would be recognized by the reader,
if I was at liberty to mention it, said
to me yesterday:
II have been approached within a
month by an English lord, who may
be a duke some day, but whose for
tune has become greatly impaired ty
his dissipation. He has fixed his
eye on an American girl, whom he
has never seen. She is compare
lively uneducated, not very bright
aud fearfully plain. Her nose is
snub. Her mouth is large. Her
eyes r small and watery. Her
father is an Irishman; but he is
worth at least $50, 900, 900. This
young lord wants me to bring about
y match between himself and the
girl. I'd see him hanged first; for l
know what a sacrifice of her it
would be-"
One other case: There is a lady
now in high society in America, her
native land, whose husband is an
English lord, and whose faiher-in- |
law is a duke. She is beautiful, &C. |
complished, interesting, and she
might have made 4 good match in
New York. But she wanted a lord, !
and she got him. He, alas, inherited
gambling from his mother, the duch-
esq, and he gambIes away all he can
get. He is dissolute and unscrupu-
lus; she is neglected and wretched.
So she pays very long visits to her
relatives in America, where she
plunge into society and forget her
pitlful European experiment. It
must not be inferred from these ex-
amples tkat all or most OF the Eng
lish nobility are bad. Most of them
are, no doubt, honorable and rtput-
able. The phrase drunk as a lord"
belongs to the eighteenth century,
when it was considered indecent in
this city for a lord not to get drunk;
when sober noblemen were caught
and violently held by their fellows
and brandy poured down their pro-
testing Threats, and when strong
men were hired before hand for the
purpose of carrying their
helpless masters home. All is
changed. At present it is considered
for an English lord to be
seen intoxicated, and to be often
drunk is a social ban against him.
W. Il. Crobutt.