St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-01-04

making her life particle less dull, this
pleasant young Count Peter is very
remarkable revelation. He has abso-
luteiy devoted himself to her, to her
shopping, to her delight in seeing plct-
ureS and hearing music: he has gone
on, like the second calender wanting an
eye, opening doors for her.
To her daughter and herself all over
Europe he has got them tickets which
no one else could do to see palaces. to
enter the sacreo spots usually closed.
For the first time in her life, mamma
has felt herself an object of supreme
interest to somebody. Her husband
was a good man and true, and she
loved him, but ne had no petits soins.
He did not tell her that she was looking
very well: that she was more attractive
in gray than In brown; he never kissed
her hand or pushed out footStool, or
took her to the opera. making little
dinner before it for her and her party.
Although he would have died for her,
he did not amuSe her. So it becomes the
difference between rich brocade and
brown linen. Her life is to her an
entirely new thing, and with that
native love of refinement which belongs
to a Woman's nature, she is delighted
with this refined luxury which shows
her that heavy feeds" and mere spend
ing of money Gas they did at homel were
very small part of the luxury which life
contains. Count Peter opens for her
new world.
One must eat the well ordered dinner
at the Cafe des Ambassadors with
party of which all the men are scrupu-
lousy dressed; the women costumed
by Worth; must diueLin the Bots OF
fur ,ifri, O
tracing band playing Hungarian airs;
must 90 next day to the races with some
body who can tell the name and history
of every fine lady who sits in the seats
reserved for the wives of the Jockey
club; must enjoy the delicious air of a
Partisan spring; must inhale the fra
GRANGE of heiotrope and lilac with this
pleasant fellow in the back seat of the
well-appointed landau, this agreeable
and Well-mannered. modest. almost boy,
who knows so much about dead kings
and queens, aud who is on speaking
terms with most live ones-to know how
thoroughly mamma was won before the
young lady was even asked for.
Then Count Peter receives from land
lords, servants. coachmen, even the
great Worth, kind of attention which
seems to these unSOphisticated women
to be of the guinea stamp. 1t affirms all
that they have read and believed
of royalty, that a noble being,
born of different blood, is rang
ing himself ana his rare accom-
plishments entirely for their benefit.
Perhaps he permits it to leak out that
an archdncheSS is waiting for him. He
may say to mamma in great confidence
that there is nothing so sad as the way
marriages are managed abroad, and the
sons and daughters of lofty house
married for their titles and not for
themselves.
How miserable are such marriages
(here he looks at the pretty daughter)
compared with one where the heart
alone is consulted! And so on. He
wins them both; he offers hand, heart,
and title; he is accepted; and then,
when it is too late, comes the
news that Count Peter is an i'm
poster, that even his title is a doubtful
one, and that he only wants money.
The intimate acquaintance of six months
perhaps, the kind interest, the real
gratitude for real services, cannot be
etfaced by such revelation, and In
nine cases out of ten the marriage takes
place.
And then the disappointment. The
glamour disappears, the mysterious
doors no longer open. the guide, the eX
palmer of dynasties, the man of picture
galleries, the dlnner-giver, is no more.
He may, when he chooses, still be the
well-bred man, but he forgets his man
ners very soon, and then, after few
years of neglect and cruelty, the de-
luded wife and the more deluded mother
come home several thousand dollars out
of pocket and wonder that they could
have been so foolish. Or they continue
to live in Paris or some other foreign
city, Count Peter saying to all of his
friends:
"She wanted title, and 1 wanted
money. She has got the title, but they
have not paid me the money!" and ten
to one the sympathy is with him.