River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-05-01
TITLED FORTUNE HUNTERS.
A Set Of Scamps Who Would be Dis
grace to Any Penitentiary.

A Set of Scamps Who Would be Dis
grace to Any Penitentiary.
An American gentleman, who has re-
sided for good many years in Paris,
received one day from member of one
of the greatest families of France let
ter requesting list of the daughters of
the Mesers. Vanderbilt, and also of
those of the Messrs. Aston, with full
particulars respecting the fortune that
each one would probably inherit. 1t is
needless to state that the letter afore-
said never was answered.
In good many instances those high
born gentlemen, the representatives of
illustrious families and the wearers of
magnificent titles, who WOO American
heiresses. constitute as consummate a
set of scamps as are to be met with out
side the four walls of prison. Loaded
down with debt, exiled from the circles
of their own set for reasons too fragrant
to mention, almost invariably gamblers
of the most frenzied type and roues
that could have given points to the
friends of the Regent Philippe dor
leans or to the courtiers of Louis XIV,
this group forms class apart, outlawed,
disreputable, and such beings as every
pure-minded woman and every honora-
BILE man ought to avoid.
Yet they are usually the most fasci-
mating of men, winning of manners and
of speech, polished, accomplished, and
altogether attractive. And the condi-
tions to which the American bride will
sometimes submit to secure possession
of her noble bridegroom are occasionally
most extraordinary. l know of one such
international marriage, which took
place in Paris some years ago, in which
provision was made in the marriage
contract for the maintenance, from
funds provided by the bride. of the chere
annie of the noble spouse. And the
American betrothed consented.
ANY one who has lived long in Europe
and who has investigated the results of
such alliances, could tell some melan-
choly story concerning the fate of our
young countrywomen in many instances.
The Italian Count who beat and kicked
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
hlOAC hAto
so sudden and so mysterious as to give
rise to the gravest suspicion of poison
ing. In another instance the aristo-
cratic husband refu I'd 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
titled European must expect to 60 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 cool springs and rushing waters in
the desert of Sahara. But, of course,
for this deprivation there are certain
corporations. such as the enJree into
the first circles of European society,
the privilege of stamping ones note
paper with a coronet, the satisfaction of
having ones servant announce the car
rage of Madame la Princesse or the
dinner of Madame la Comtesse. There
are two elements, however. that must
always be reckoned with in these marri-
ages, namely, the gaming table and the
demi-monde, and the first named is the
most universal and the worst of the
two.-Paris Cor. Philadelphia Tele-
graph