Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-12-19
Vu1gaIism and W0manhOOd.

Scandals logically multiply upon
what the world enormously assumes
to be American womanhoOd, because
of the disrepute brought upon Ameri-
can women by adventurous vulgariaDs
who buy their way just far enough in
to foreign nobility to make their shame
world wide. What self respecting
American woman can read without
humiliation the disgraceful develop
ments now aired in the public journals
of both hemispheres, relating to sever
al American women who have been
tempted from the sacred associations
of home and friends to barter their
charms and their money in the open
market-place where the American vul-
garian trades in dishonored and inn
pecunious nobility?
One who WAS long an exceptional
fav orite in accom- plish ed society, was
so forgetful of true womanhood as to
barter herself and fortune for a title
that came with the flavor of the moral
leper, from which any woman Of even
ordinary refinement and purity should
have turned with ineXpressible loath-
ing. Humiliation and sorrow speedily
stripped the coveted social distinction
of its glitter, and separation and public
shame follc only to reach the eli
max in a fearful and DOUBTLESS unjust
scandal falling upon the woman her.
self. 1t was simply the hazard of the
a merican vulgarian, and the vulgar
ia II lost, as was inevitable.
Another American woman of fortune,
intelligence and culture has just re-
turned to her home almost baDkrupted
in purse and utterly bankrupted in
hope and comfort. Her life was devot-
ed to winning titles for daughters, in
which she won, AS money aid the sac
rifice of womanhood always wins
abroad, and the logical quel came in
costly struggle of years to rescue Ii
titled child from lunatic asylum and
the employment of a thieving advent
charge of lunacy. Both of these
American women are broken in hope
and bewildered by scandal by forget
ting true womanhOod to gain blistered
titles in the market where the vulgar
ian trades.
Another American woman from
neighboring city bore her fortune and
her charms as an offering to a prince
who could give only his deeply clouded
title with the debts of the gam bier and
the dishonor of public RIGHTEOUSNESS
in return; and when the offer of the
vulgarian was entertained, it was
finally rejected because the legal advis-
ers of the marketable woman refused
to pay $4,000 of 500, 900 annual ill.,
come to enable the Prince to enjoy him
s"lf at cards and in the society of more
agreeable women than his vulgarian
wife. In utter disregard Of every attri-
butte oftrue wOmanhood, the trade is still
on and she iswaiting for her dishonortd
but coveted title to be dickered into
terms she can afford to pay as theprice
of tolerance as nominal wife.
"But, are not these things sacred?
and why. this brutal candor in discuss
ing them?" asked the thoughtless
quibbler. No; they are not sacred;
the home; they discard home, affection,
friends and all that makes woman low
ed and reverenced; they prostitute
woman to the level of the pork or mule
market, and stamp upon her the indel-
IDLE mark of the vulgarian. The pros
titution of American womanhood to
the glitter OF foreign titles has become
so dishonOring to true womanhOod
that the home of every American girl
should have the plainest warning
against the madness of this shameless
traffic. No considerations of delicacy
should conceal the painful truth from
American womanhood and American
girls should be taught from the moth
er's lap, from honest society. from the
press, from the pulpit, indeed from ev-
cry surrounding, that neither at home
nor abroad is there any true nobility
but that of merit, and that the now ac-
cepted vocation of the American vul-
garian leads only to sorrow and shame.
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