St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-18
WHY GIRLS MARRY ABROAD
They Revolt at the Idea of Mar
rying an American Monster of

They Revolt at the Idea of Mar
rying an American Monster of
Perfection.
Toronto Globe.
We have read scores of articles on the
Angl0-American marriage epidemic. In
every one of them the writer has striyen
to reach solution by inquiring, Why
should the rich and titled Engllshman
fly from the maidenS of his native land
and seek wife on the other shore OF
the Atlantic?
AS long as the question is approached
from that side the true answer will be-
sought in vain. This writer may prove
that it is because American girls are the
prettier; that one will demonstrate that
it is because American papas come
down handsomely; third will insist
that it is because the American girl is
the more stylish, independent, betterin-
formed, chic. None of these answ
will cause any one to change his
opinions.
ALI who have written on the question
have approached it from the wrong
side. The real question is-not why
Englishmen marry American girls, but
why American girls marry .Englishmen,
With the question stated correctly, the
answer is not far to seek.
In the first place, the American girl is
in active rebellion against the American
man, because the latter has set himself
I'D as the perfect husband. We have
our doubts whether any daughter OF
Eve would willingly marry man whom
she thought to be perfection there is
no doubt whatever that she would not
marry a man who sets himself up as the
best possible husband, and that is what
the American man is constantly doing
through his representative press. In our
journalistic experience we have read
many hundred times in America
newspapers and magazines that Ameri-
can men are not only the best of hus-
bands. but that they are models which
men of other nations may aim to reach.
but which they never will. 1t requires
no great knowledge of womankind to
tell US that 1.-THE lady intellect" revOltS
at the idea of marrying monster of
perfection The American man has, in
word, OverdOne the business of self
puffery. The rich American girl, hav-
ing mind of her own, constitutes her.
self the Judge of the relative desirable
ness of husbands, and she seems to be
more and more frequently coming to
the conclusion that the Englishman,
protesting to be only of flesh and blood.
and of good deal of each, is more
satisfactory partner for life than is the
perfect American.
The American girl can find plenty Of
support for her opinions by simply OBJ
serving what passes around her. She
sees American young men wholly given
up to imitation of Englishmen -princi-
pally as respects their vices and defects.
She finds that young man with six
generations of American ancestry be-
hind him can be made happy for week
by the suggestion that she has mistaken
him for an Englishman. Naturally she
comes to the conclusion that the En-
gliShman whom her cOuntryman almost
worShips must be the superior being.
The choice seems to her. on the strength
of the American mans own Judgment,
to be one between gold and pinchbeck.
Having travelled thus far by means OF
her reasoning powers. she proceeds to
apply her knowledge to practice. When
she meets an eligible Englishman she
waves a flag to him. He of course
capitulates. With such marvellous art
is the affair managed that to the end OF
his life he remains under the delusiou
that he was the capt0r and she the sur
rendering party.