The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-06-12

AiHtIltdu 9lfin WHO nave illitd tutin-
selves TO penniless Italian Counts and
Princes would 90 good way to new
edition ~ fuye Of the "Amcrican peer
age The leading names which now
occur 10 the writer are Miss Mackay.
now the Princess Colonna; Miss Field.
Princess vicarara Cenci; Miss Broad
wood. Princess Ruspoli; Miss Kinney.
Countess Gianotti; Miss Fisher. Count
ess Gherardesca; Miss Roberts. Countess
Cali; Miss Fry, Marchesa Torregiani;
Miss Lewis. Countess Barbolini Amadel
Miss Gllindcr. Marchcsa di San Mar
zano. and Miss Hungcrford. the Count
css Telfener
! We wonder II thes. naughty Ameri-
can princesses and conntcsses would
like 10 have their attention drawn to
their husbands conpatriots, who. with
crook in hand, skip from ash barrel to
ash barrel on all our sidewalks. like the
bee tasting the sweet flower when il I'M
closes its sleepy petals TO the first rays
Of the morning sun.
One Of the Italian comic journals.
commenting on the rage for titled ALI
ances eyinccd by our American girls,
puts the following sarcastic SAYING into
the mouths OF two filthy lazzaroni
| Father: ''What shall we do with our
gooi-for-nothing son?"
Mother .'Why. make him assume
his grandfather's title Of Conte de
Stracci cd Ossi." Count Rags and
Bones.)
Father: Eyes; and then he can marry
some rich American LADY,
To the credit OF the Aston and the
Vanderbilt families be il said they have
not sought any stupid alliances with
foreign noblemen. but contentcd them
selves intcrmarrying with nativc-born
Americans Our young ladies, when
they take their usual European trip. get
dazed. as it We're. with the pinchbeck
glitter Of foreign society and thus easily
fall victims to the present craze for
empty and high-sounding titles.
In Hoods witty ballad Of Miss Xii
mansegg the heroine i represented as
being captivated with the linguistic ac-
complishments OF the Count:
He piled her in Flemish Spanis h and Dutch,
With now and then an Italian touch,
Till She yielded. without objecting much.
To homage 80 continental.
Many of our young society maidens
who have flown from Us across the At
lantic are. like Miss Kilmansegg, cap
tivated by the airy nothings breathed
into their ears upon the moonlit bal
cony by some bewhskered foreign
Marquis whose estates consist merely of
those incorporated hereditaments
known to the posts as 'ChateGur en-
Espdgne." We are sorry TO lose them.
but the girl who would despise her own
countryman and give her money in the
purchase OF foreign husband with a
questionable title. does not deserve the
plaudits or warm wishes of the true
sons and daughters Of Columbia.
We want no lazy. glittering idlers
here The toilcrs, who work unceas-
ingly day after day. and sometimes far
into the silent watches Of the night.
know well who are America noble
men. The pilgrim father. the persecut-
ed Irish peasant. the German. forced bv
stern necessity from the Fatherland. all
who have subscribed TO our laws, built
themselves herein home. and have
striyen either by word or deed to make
this country better than when they
landed on its shores-these. and these
only. are Americas noblcmcn.
II may horrify some Of our ssshoddy"
aristocracy 10 hear that the great fort
uncs which many Of them to-day inherit
were built up in the low gin-mil in
some wild mifing district Of the far
West The tlegantly-attired grandson
Of the original gin-mill proprietor has
long since forgotten the doughty deeds
performed BY his ancestor when The got
the drop on some wild rowdy who had
sworn 70 rob the bar. To-day the money
made in the old liquor traffic
is spent in renting some sump.nously
decorated Hat in the Avenue del Opera
at Paris or some charming 'villegratu-
ra" BY the blue waters OF the Mediter-
ranean.
When once the young American who
inherits money and property begins to
study the British pecrage. YOU may de-
pend upon il all vencration for good old
Uncle sam Is beginning 10 ooze out at
his finger ends. The ease and rapidity
with which we can travel nowadays.
suggests ut once grand tour Of the
European continent, and il is here that
the young American becomes perverted
and learns 10 bow down to the false
gods Of an cfiete monarchcal system.