The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-13


where in the neghborhoOd of $4,000, 900
has refused number of offers from eligible
young Americans, and has announced her
| determination to 90 over TO Europe next
year and marry husband Of aristocratic
connections and ancient lneageF
81 can only guess who the young lady is
| to whom YOU refer, and can only say that
if she has any intention Of the kind she has
| not had the frankness TO acknowledge it. II
| any such raid is contemplated on the supply
| of foreign titles she has been discreet
/ enough TO maintain the utmost silence with
respect tot tn
''Do Won think that the ordinary Ameri-
| can girl in society who has money, or
whose father has money, which is the same
| thing, would prefer young Englishman to
| a young American, if they were equal in
every respect except that the Englishman
| possessed a title"
II don't know what YOU mean by the or
binary American girl. but there are some
American girls undoubtedly who would
take the title. There are other American
girls who would allow their personal affec-
tons and possibly their patriotism to infiu-
ence them in favor of native talent"
When this point in the conversation had
been reached MIR. McAllister was smiling
and good natured in the extreme, and in
dulged occasionally in a very low and not
at all unmusical laugh. IL was not difficult
to discover that when he said that Ameri-
| can girls were fond of titles ne meant that
the assertion should have all the significance
it could possibly be made TO bear, but when
he was pressed TO make some
explicit statement further than the simple
one with which he started out he fenced the
inquiries with skill which evidently came
from much experience in light wordy war
fare and in clever drawing-room badinage.
/ appreciated all this. but returned again to
the attack.
you say that American girls are fond
of foreign titles and intimate that they
would rather marry titled Englishman
than an untitled American. Why do you
think this is the case. What advantages,
social or otherwise, win they enjoy in Eng
land or in France which they do not enjoy
here7"
"Well, there said Mr.. McAllister, sis a
question which / can answer. I'll pass by
the fact that there is something in being
duchess or a countess which is attractive to
the ordinary woman, and will say nothing
of the TACT THAI titled position has a
species of superficial glitter aud fascination
for them, and simply point out this one
thing: The social position of man or
woman or a family in America is something
that has no permaneucy whatever What
l mean to say is that there is nothing
inherently permanent about it. It
depends on outside circumstances
altogether. If family starts
in with wealth and the energy and
disposition TO entertain their friends in So
ciety, they can maintain themselves pretty
well on certain given lines but if their fort
unes are affected in any way whatever, or
If they cease to entertain by reason of lack
of desire or any combination of circum-
stances, their social position suffers at once.
Men and women in society here are pre-
cisely what they make themselves, and if
they don't 60 forward they are bound to
go backward. This situation is part and
parcel of the condition of the country and
the people.
in countries like England and France,
where society is very much older, this is all
different Certain families have certain
positions, and they hold them not only from
year to year, but from generation to gen.
Grafton, and the titles Ia the family are
simply indications Of their claims to this
recognition. They may stop entertaining
for years, if they please, and go and live in
China for any length of time they
choose. When they come back they
start in precisely where they left off.
There is not the constant struggle and
emulation which is characteristic of society
in every great American city. A woman
who has social position knows that she has
got to be doing something continually to
maintain that position. And women here
who are fretted and worried continually
with this constant necessity for being con-
stantly on the alert, welcome such q condi-
ton as this with the utmost satisfaction A
woman knows that if she married title, this
title means position in England; that
nothing can ever take that away from
her. If she starts in by being somebody,
she is somebody to the end of time. In New
York she may be somebody to-day and no.
BODY Whatever in few years from now. |
In ftafsx - ,rtes ~
Perhaps the condition of things in this
country is much sounder and much health
Ter than 1t is in the older countries of Eu-
rope. Perhaps it is part and parcel of our
republican form of government. / am
simply stating the facts in the case.n
'Well, are there any other reasons why
American women prefer to marry English
men or frenchmen belonging to noble
houses"
IN D other that | know of, unless it be that
| they find life on the other side easier than
| it Is here-more pleasant and Astounding in
luxuries. 1t is perfectly natural that
| among society people on the other side who
have had nothing TO do except amuse and
| entertain each other for several generations
| they have found means for amusement and
| entertainment which are more novel than
old-time diversions which we know here,
and are therefore more enjoyable. Life
| Is made easy and pleasant by means of
| devices which are discovered of course, by
a series of experiments, and if these expert
ments have been conducted for a long series
of years, as they have been in France end
| England, instead of the few brief years as
they have been in America, it is perhaps
not to be wondered at that the result i
more pleasant and satisfactory. They have
a charming country life both in England
and the continent, and their town life Is
more abbreviated than ours and perhaps
fuller Of piquant pleasures. have not lived o
the other side for a matter now of quarter
of a century, so 1 am not in a position &c
judge. only know what is told me- But
this thing is certain, American life among
society people is gradually coming iatC
greater and greater resemblance to life OIL
the other side, and think now 1t is a mat
fer of very short time when New York vii
be one of the gayest capitals in the world.
lyon don't think there is much marrying
for love in society nowadays, do you?"
sol yes, they do it. AS Pooh Bah re-
marks, Il have known it done There was
the case of Miss Fricke, who married Frank
Foster the other day. That certainly was
a marriage of affection. Miss Fricke was
unquestionably one Of the most beautiful
women in the country, and Mr. Foster
although he is everything that wome1
would care to have in a man is, believe
by no means wealthy
"But was that not an exception to the