The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-26

Transatlantic heiresses. The best known of
these women isa Russian aud another Is a
Belgian. More than cuce have been re-
qiiested 70 Introduce some ! ri ICE or other to
certain well-enGowed unmarried American
women OF my acquaintance, but TO such a
request L always oppose an iRhexible re-
III a. A lew years ag) an advertisement
couched In the following terms was pub
Iished IN one OF the Franco American news
papers of Paris:
Several princes, dukes, unts and Wis
counts desire to marry rich American
young ladies. Write in all confidence in
the hrSt instance to the Baroness d'Emilv. y
Aud then followed the address. l have
often wondered if Madame d'Emily what a
nameD succeeded in attracting many eli
entS. Probably she did not, for after some
months her advertisement vanished from
the columns of the paper aforesaid, where
indeed it should never have been suffered to
appear.
In good many instances those high-born
gentlemen, the representatives of il!usfrious
families and tine wearers of magnificent
titles who woo American heiresses, consti-
uute as consummate set of scamps as are
to be- met with outside of the four walls of
a prison. Loaded down with debt, exiled
from the circles of their own set for reasons
too fragrant to mention, almost invariably
roues that could have given points to the
friends of the Regent Philippe dOrleans or
to the cOurtiers of Louis XIV, this group
forms class apart, outlawed, disreputable,
and such beings as every pure-minded
woman and every honorable man ought to
AVOID.
Yet they are usually the most fascinating
OF men, winning OF manners ana of speech,
polished, accomplished, and altogether at
tractive. Andathe conditions 10 which the
American bride will sometimes submit to
secure possession of her noble bridegroom
are occasi lnally most extraordinary.
knew of one such international marriage
which took place in Paris some years ago,
in which provision was made in the mar
riage contract for the maintenance, from
funds provided by the bride, of the chsre
annie of the noble spouse. And the Ameri-
can betrothed consented.
AMERICAN WIVES AND TITLED HUSBANDS.
Any one VINO has lived long in Europe,
and who has investigated the results of such
alliances. could tell some melancholy story
concerning the fite of our young country
women in many instances. The Italian
count who beat and kick his American
wife at Partisan hotel year ago is by no
means an isolated specimen of his class.
More than once has the American wife Of
the bearer of lofty title died under cir
cumstances so sudden and so mysterious as
give rise to the gravest suspicion of poison
ing. In another instance the aristocratic
husband refused to support his wife and
child, because the former would not consent
to associate with the woman for whose sake
he had separated from her.
The American woman who marries a
titled European must expect to go heart
hungry all her days. There is no more
question of love in the home that owes its
splendor to the wealth of the wife and the
rank of the husband than there is of coil
springs and rushing streams in the Desert
of Sahara. But, of course, for this depri-
walton there are certain c)mpensations,
such as the entree into the first circles of
European society, the privilege of stamping
ones note-paper with a coronet, the salts
faction of having ones servant announce
the carriage of Madame la Princes59 or the
dinner of Madame la Comtesse. There are
two elements, however, that must always
BE- reckoned with these marriages, namely.
the gaming table and the demi-monde, and
the flrst-named is the most universal and
the worst of the two