Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-11-05
PA. November 5. 1889.


The marriage Of American money to
: foreign title has been topic Of late Of
lively newspaper animadversion but
there ID now opportunity offered for va
ration In the tone by the reported ALI
auce Of an American Du Pont to an
Irish barmaid. The suggestion we draw
nom the circumstances is that there Is
no disputing about tastes in matrimony
and that there Is no particular reason
for treating as anything out Of the ordi-
nary line, either the marriage OF our
rich young men tn Irish maids, or our
rich young women to German barons.
Doubtless Mr.. Du Pont pleased himself;
and so did Miss Huntington and
II Miss Caldwell had got her prince for
her price, she may or may not have
raed her bargain. If these girls
who buy foreign titles do not get what
they expected In their matrimonial
speculation, they are no worse off than
plenty Of girls at home, who yield to
charms of manhood that become as
dead sea apples in their lips. Girls can
be bought without titles and we do
not see that the poor girl who marres
his looks, Is any more commendable than
the rich girl who goes for foreign
title; unless we admit it to he all wrong
to marry for anything but love, about
which there is great deal to be said In
tiisputation. The rich American girls who
rush across the ocean after foreign titles,
and the girls at home who sedulously
strive to get rich or good looking hus-
bands, are on common plane.
And Ii we insist that all matrimony
shall be founded on love, what shall be
done for the rich girls with whose other
charms men will not fall in love and
how are we to arm the fair creatures
that they may tell whether II be love for
them or for their money that moves
their pursuit? Shall not girl marry,
whoee money will buy her a swain, be-
cause she suspects that otherwise she
might not be sought? We may depend
upon 1t that she will, as rule, take all
that she can get by her cash or her
charms, without caring to carefully in
quire into the particular purchasing
value of each. The rich girl can get a
husband generally If she wants one.
The rich American girl can get foreign
title II she wants ii and has cash enough
to buy 1t. Miss Huntington's Is re-
ported to have cost her amiable father
two millions; which was not dear, II he
had the money TO spare. He cannot
take his money out of the world with
him, nor spend more than a certain
portion Of 1t in the world, SO that IL he
had q dear daughter, who wanted dear
German baron, 1t was better to crafty
the paternal instinct for her delight than
TO keep his millions where they were
OF no particular use. Miss Caldwell
priced her prince at ten thousand year,
and when that figure failed to fetch him
she withdrew from the auction, Just rs
sensible American girl would, from com.
petition for any article that she thought
was going too high.
Just how much love these young ladies
expected to get and give in their transac.
tions we do not know anymore
than we know how much OF
love any other young ladies OF
our time expect when they marry
Doubtless great many are very full OF
It In orthodox fashion. Others of the
very young may be overtlowing with an
article that they mistake for love. A
great many manage to get along on n
more limited lot and more let worldly
considerations occupy a much larger
portion Of their contemplation. And so
II 10 with our young men. Their love
>xArtes In measure from the quantity
that led young Du Pont over the sea to
his Irish girl, to meagreness of form
that gives no sign of life in it at all. So
that we protest that all the criticism
that ID bestowed upon our girls who
seek to marry counts abroad should be
shared In equal measure by the young
men and maidens at home who marry
for aught but love, of whom there are SO
many. And it will be hard to persuade
them that they are doing wrong and that
they have not right to marry as they
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