The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-07-16
WORLD.
Why E~nglishmen Choose American
Wives-Conversaiion Lessons.

The oft-repeated question, "Why
do Englishmen marry A~mericans2"
was commented upon last week by
the London Court Journal, the point
having, no doubt, been inspired by
the wedding of Sir William Gordon
Cummings and Miss Florence Garner.
According TO this paper, the reason is
''the American girl is beautiful; she
has a piquant figure and dresses in
excellent taste. She is shiew | and often
wise; she is self-dependent. straight
forward and courteous" In fact. 1t
sums up the article in the following
manner, which cannot be deemed
other than ~fiattering by the greatest
stickler for America and its daugh-
ters:-'She IAN, as a wife, adorn a
ducal mansion, or make the money OF
a not too rich husband go twice as far
as it would in the hands of an ordi-
nary Therefore, continues
this journal, they have been eagerly
sought in marriage by the leading
men of all countries and have made
the best wives.f Now, who will
answer the question, why do Ameri-
can girls marry Englishmeng" Will
the ans wer be as hattering to them?
The following incident is reported
to have happened in Berlin:-"A num-
Der of ladies and gentlemen were as
seinbled at a dinner to celebrate a
friends wedding. After the banquet
a president was elected, who was
pledged to secrecy by a solemn oath.
An unmarried persons of either sex
wrote each on a piece of paper his own
name and that of the person whom
they desired to marry. The papers
were handed to the president, a man
of mature age, married, and grave as
became his Office. 1t was his duty to
acquaint the two parties who had mu-
tually selected each other. Result
Eleven couples thus had the oppor-
tunity of confessing their feelings to
one another for the first time, and a
month later eight weddings came
off,"
There has been a steady rise in the
average age at which men and women
marry ever since 1873.
A woman who, thirty-fiye years
ago, was counted la belle par excel
lence of Europe, has just died; died,
too, strange to say, an old maid. The
Princess Helena Sangnzke belonged
to one of the noblest families in Po-
land. She was extremely wealthy,
too, clever and highly cultivated.
She was one OF the band of distin-
guished women to whom belongs the
honor of having refused to share the
French throne with Napoleon III.
The princess was in Paris at the coup
d'etat, and then, and for some time
afterward, the Emperor made no at
k-...-& - 11no11I HE 1nwAffA.a FOR hnp
1t was not until she had refused him
more than once that he turned his at
tention to Mile. de Montijo. Then La
Belle Polonaise, as she was called, re-
ceived a hint to leave Paris, and she
went to Vienna, where for years she
was the reigning beauty. q
Several American ladies are earning
an excellent living by giving conver-
sation lessons. 1t is the duty of
these ladies to instill courage and
grace into their pupils. The difident
are taught to listen we'll and are en-
couraged to make appropriate re-
marks at appropriate times. Those
who are already somewhat forward in
manner are repressed, and the consci-
entious teacher instills into their
minds the great importance of being
good listeners. Laughing Is taught,
giggling is subdued, the art of shak-
ing hands is cultivated until it be-
comes a real gift, and general grac-
iousness and pretty manners are
treated as s~pecialties.
Queen Victoria is a believer in pets.
She has a collection of forty dogs and
| some dozen cats.
Near Lamar, Col, a little girl of
four years wandered to the platform
of an express train and was blown off
while the train was running at the
rate of thirty miles an hour. A loco
motive was sent back, and the search
ers found the child at midnight, sit
ting unhurt in a clump of weeds, and
| keeping very still for fear the Indians
would get her.
Mrs. Mary White Martinez, the
| mother of the actress, Sadie Martinez,
is distinguished as an inventor. She
has patented, in W countries, a
steam washing machine, a gas stove,
a foot bath. an ice cream freezer and
a clothes dryer, and she makes her
models with her own hands. She has
taken a dozen first prizes, and her in
ventions altogether have proved a
great success.
Divorced Thirty-hve Wives.
A tourist who has just returned
from the East, says that the day he
left Yokohama the native paper in
that city mentioned a ease of a man,
aged forty this year, living in a prov
ince in Bizen. who has married and
divorced tnirty-five wives and is now
married to the thirty-sixth.
He was first married at eighteen,
and the reason assigned for this extra
ordinary example of Inconsistency is
that he has a younger sister of ex.
tremely jealous and %rancorous DISPOSE
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