St. Paul daily globe., 1890-05-18
Mile. Blanc married one of the innu-

merable Princes RadziwilI.
As to rich American girls, their ar
rival in Paris is watched and noted,
their prospects inquired into, and their
fortunes estimated before they are fairly
settled at the Hotel Continental or
the Grand hotel. There are titled
women q will not call them LADIES'
who. for percentage on the dowry,
agree to arrange the preliminaries of
the marriages of high-born gentlemen
to these transatlantic heiresses. The
best known of these women is Rus
sian, and another is Belgian. More
than once have been requested to in
trOduce some prince or other to certain
well-endOwed unmarried American
women of my acquaintance, but to such
a request | always oppose an infieXlble
refusal. A few years ago an advertise
was published in one of the Franco
American newspapers of Paris:
Several princes, dukes, counts and
visc0unts desire to marry rich American
young ladies. Write in all confidence
IN the first instance to the Baroness of
Emily" And then followed the adj
dress. | have often wondered if Nine.
d'Emily (what nameD succeeded in
attracting many clients. Probably she
did not, for after. some months her ad-
yertiSement vanished from the columns
of the paper aforesaid, where, indeed,
it should never have been suffered to
appear.
An American gentleman, who has re-
sided for a 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 MeSSrs. Vanderbilt, and also those
of the Messrs. Astor, with full particu-
lars respecting the fortunes that each
one would probably inherit. 1t is need
less to state that the letter aforesaid
never was answered.
In a good many instances those high
born gentlemen, the representatives of
lllustrIouS families, and the WearerS of
magnificent titles, who WOO American
helresSeS, constitute as cOnSummate a
set OF ScampS as are to be met with out
side of the four walls of a prison.
Loaded down with debt, exiled from the
circles of their own set for reasons too
hagrant to mention, almost Invariably
gamblers of the most frenZied type, and
roueS that could have given points to
tie friends of the Regent Philippe
dOrleans OF to the courtiers of Louis
XIV, this group forms a 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 fasci-
mating of 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 occasion
ally most extraordinary. | know of one
such international marriage, which ok
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
DetrOthed consented.
Any one who has lived long in
Europe, and who has investigated the
result of such alliances, could tell some
melancholy stories concerning the fate
instances. The Italian count who beat
and kicked his American wife at
Partisan hotel, a year ago, is by no
means an isolated specimen of his class.
More than once has the American wife
of the bearer of a lofty title died under
circumstances SO sudden and SO mysteri
Gus as to give rise to the gravest sus-
picion of poisoning. In another
instance, the aristocratic husband re-
fused 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 cool springs and rushing streams in
the Desert of Sahara. But, of course,
for this deprivation there are certain
compensations, snch as the entree into
the first circles of European society, the
privilege of stamping ones note paper
with coronet, the satisfaction OF hav-
ing ones servants announce the car
rage of Nine. la Princesse, or the din
ner of Nine. la COmtesSe. There are
two elements, however, that must al
ways be reckoned with in these mar
riages, namely, the gaming table and
the demi monde; and the first-named is
the most universal and the worst OF the