St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-07
A LIFE FOR A TITLE.
American Girls Who Go
Abroad For Sale For
a Title,
And Virtually Sell Them
selves For an Empty
BaubIe.
A Q Beautiful Girl Sold to a
Scamp Of a Russian
Count.
Her Fathers Fortune and
Her Own Life Sacrificed
Thus.

ms observation was made by an eX
United States consul to me tonight. He
was consul at an important post, hav-
ing been appointed by President Ar
thur. He has been on the continent
since his successor relieved him.
" A few years ago." he continued, ga
gentleman of means went from one of
the states, with his daughter, abroad.
She was the sort of girl that every
body loved-good, gentle, childlike and
with a face that was pretty without any
OF the articles to which the average
woman resorts. knew her father WELL
knew he was proud of his daughter,
and l knew, without having asked
him the question, what he
had her with him for. 1t was that
| knowledge which caused me to look
upon her with pity. l took them to my
house. Four years of consular life at
post where there was .one continuous
beating of sea of fashion had opened
my eyes to the insincerity of that sort
OF an existence. / wanted to keep my
friend and his child out of such an at
mosphere. took them into the coun-
try and showed them the natural at
fractions. I stood with them in the
sunshine of Switzerland. but 1 soon saw
that the man preferred to have his
daughter play the moth in the candle.
Zone day he told me he thought of
placing his daughter in one of the in
Stitutions of Zurich. where she would
have social advantages as we'll as edu-
cational.
81 begged him not to do It. | told
told him that Zurich was the hot-bed of
anarchy and revolution; that the very
air which was there inhaled would
poison an American.
II saw that he was persistent. I
knew why. knew the place was filled
with the sins of the royalty of several
empires.
He came to me one day and said he
had made the arrangements; in fact he
had already placed her in the institu-
ton and was off for home.
VI Won't tire you with a story. She
married. Her husband was Russian
count. He had been sent out of his
own country Oh account of his numer-
Gus escapdes: He was ugly, coarse,
brutal, and had name which no
American could pronounce. The last,
of course, was no objection. He had
the most repulsiye countenance l ever
saw. He had no money, but he was
count.
1.-The father, proud of his triumph.
settled upon the daughter 5000. 900.
The couple travelled and returned to
Zurich. She was taken sick. In Civ
ing birth to her first child her husband
abused her, and actually dragged her
by the hair from her bed and left her
upon the floor. He took what money
she had and went upon protracted
/ and beaStly carouSai. l heard of 1T
| and called at the house. l hope / shall
| never again see such scene of squalor.
| The room was devoid of comfort. The
| woman, so far as attention was con-
| cerned, had none-no more than an
animal. She was in labor on the floor
where he had left her. l believe that
some of the gray hairs in my head are
| the result of that scene. summoned a
| physician, procured nurse and left
| some money in the house, with my adj
| dress.
Il called at the Office of the American
| consul and laid the case of the titled
| brute before him. He offered to do
| anything he could, but told me frankly
| that it would only lead to more brutal
lty. l was called to England. L left
| some money for the child of my friend.
l managed to see her before left. and
| SUUdI-
| dered every dollar given by her father
and then pawned her wedding presents.
He demanded more Of her, and when
| she could not respond he beat her.
| Like most women of pride, she i'm
| plored me to keep the information from
her father. This 1 did not do. |
| couldn't do it. On the contrary, l laid
before him every fact and begged him
| to come for his child and take her
home.
"As an American I am ashamed to
have to say that he didn't do it. 1t
| makes my blood boil to say to you that
he sent her more money. | dropped the
case. Three years after l was again on
the continent, and made some inquiries
about the woman. l found that she
was the mother of three children, and
living in apartments that my coachman
wouldn't occupy. / went to see her.
A woman with babe in her arms
answered my knock. L want to see
Countess -, formerly of the United
States said.
e"The woman closed her eyes, shud-
dered and but for my prompt action her
/ caught it and at the same time
caught the mother and called for help.
An old woman came to my call and as
sisted me in getting the woman into
room. Another child lay upon the
bed sick, and the sister, in rags,
was drinking beer in one corner
of the room. As soon as 1 could do so
again asked for the apartment occupied
by Countess -. The old woman did
not understand me. AS l was about to
leave the woman whom | had rescued
at the door opened her eyes and said to
me, Ill the fainteSt voice, Il am the
G0upfaCS all that ic loft
81 again provided for her and notified
her father to come at once.
81 returned to England and was en-
crossed with my business for some time.
came back to the United States few
weeks ago, and one of the first things
did was to inquire about the father of
the girl of whom l have been telling
you.
do you know. sir, that he had squan-
dered his fortune on that brute of a
Russian? He had sent his daughter
money, knowing full we'll that the
brute would take it and spend it and
abuse his wife. When the fortune run
out the woman was deserted. She is
living over the river from this city, in
Pennsylvania, with her father and the
few acres he has left. He may be worth
5000, but no more. His daughter and
her three children are with him. There
is not the most remote intima ton of
former beauty or spughtliness or
buoyancy in her. She is painful to
look upon. One of her children is de-
formed. The brute who caused this
ruin is an outcast and vagabond. He
cannot return to his own country.
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