St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-07
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Ossi." Count Rags and Bones.)
Father-'Yes; and then he can marry
some rich American lady,"
TO the credit of the Astor and the Van
derbilt families be it said, they have not
sought any stupid alliances with foreign
noblemen, but contented themselves inter-
marrying with native born Americans. Our
young ladies when they take their usual
European trip, get daZed, as it were, 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 Kilman-
segg, the heroine is represented as being
captivated with the linguistical accomplish
ments of the count:
He piled her in Flemish, Spanish and Dutch,
With now and then an italian touch,
IT'LL she yielded, without objecting much,
To homage so confidential.
Many OF our young society maidens who
have flown from us across the Atlantic are,
like Miss Kilmansegg, captivated by
AIRY NoTHINGs
breathed into their ears upon the moonlight
balcony by some bewhiskered foreign mar
quis, whose estates consist merely of those
incorporated Entertainments known to the
poets as ''ChateauX en- Espagne." We are
sorry to lose them, but the girl who would
despise her own cOuntryman and give her
money in the purchase of a foreign husband
with a questionable title, does not deserve
the plaudits or warm wishes of the true sons
OF daughters of Columbia.
Wewant no lazy, glittering idlers here.
The toilers, who work increasingly day after
day, and sometimes far into the ''silent
watches of the night" know well who are
Americas noblemen. The pilgrim father,
the prosecuted Irish peasant, the German,
forced by stern necessity from the Father
land, all who have subscribed to our laws,
built themselves herein home, and have
striven either by word or deed to make this
country better than when they landed on its
shores, these, and these only, are Americas
nOblemen.
1t may horrify some of our ''shoddy"
aristecracy to hear that the great fortunes
which many of them to-day inherit were
built up in the low gin mill in some wild
mining district of the far west. The ele-
gantly attired grandson OF the original gin
mill proprietor has long since forgotten the
doughty deeds performed by his ancestor
when he ''got the DROP on some wild rowdy
who had sworn to rob the bar. To-day, the
money made in the old liquor traffic is spent
in renting some
SUMPTUOUSLY DECORATED FLAT
in the Avenue del Opera at Paris or some
charming ''villegratllra" by the blue waters
of the Mediterranean.
Once the young American who inherits
money and property begins to study the
British peerage, you may depend ON it all
veneration for good old Uncle Sam is begin
ming to ooze out at his finger ends. The
ease and rapidity with which we can travel
nowadays, suggest at once grand tour of
the European continent, and it is here that
the young American becomes perverted and
learns to bow down to the false gods of an
effete mOnarchical system.
If you have ever noticed the Anglo
American dude in mid-Ocean, it must have
caused you no small amount of pleasure,
albeit tinged with some measure of disgust,
that man should lower himself to copy the
ariStOcratic manners of another nationality.
and not succeed in that attempt beyond max
ing himself a mark for ungraceful COM
ment.
A single eyeglass is the first article
mounted by the American dude when he
would wish to pose as an Englishman. See
him with it most overwhelmingly under his
promenade of one Of the ocean liners, and
lisps or mumbles out some drawing SEN
fences to any of the ladies of his acquaint-
ance whom he may pass by.
Then. when England has been reached,
and with an incredible amount of labor and
sycophancy he has succeeded in worming
himself into what he styles high society,
his methods and manners are alike vile
travesties on the wonted grace of highbred
English gentlemen, and his great wealth
alone saves him from contempt and insult.
But it is when on his knees to some be-
whiskered italian prince or potentate, re-
ceiving from his hand the dearly-purchased
patent of his new nobility, that our eide
want American dude is seen in his most ap-
propriate attitude. Bow down, degenerate
son of mighty nation of intelligent toilers,
you are but the drOne in the great hive of
THIS BUSY WORLD.
and have never worked for the honey which
you now sip and feed on. America can
easily afford to forget you in her fifty mill
ions of free and independent citizens.
England is great nation, which for cen
turies has developed all the arts of peace
and refinement, but this fact. alone should
not make us slavishly accept every English
it's brief history is not uneventful, and it has
before it a glorious future. Why, then,
should we have our young gentlemen dudes
copying English dress and manners, our
rosebud debutantes forgetting the old
American custom of clothing the body with
becoming modesty and not shocking us with
the sight of the foreign imported custom of
naked arms, and gowns SO extremely decol-
lete as to be an offense against good taste
and manners.
These Objectionable customs may belong
to foreign aristocracy. We do not want
them here. The nearer we approach the
effeminate manners of Europe, the farther
shall we recede from the glorious principles
of liberty proclaimed in that Magna-C harta
of our rights the Declaration of indie
pendence."
Worth, not wealth, should be respected
in this country; natural manners, not af-
fected ones The toiler should rank, because
OF his usefulness, above the idler, and the
native-born American gentleman above all
sickening representations Of a spurious
American ariStOcracy.
A ssROSE WEDDING.',
Buds and Beauties i'm BewiIdering