The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-01-25

contentment. The chances that the match is
made from mercenary motives on the husbands
part in the case of a foreign union are ia
greater than when the man is an American.
Under these circumstances l would say that as
rule our girls who wed their own countrymen
are far happier than the American brides of
dukes or lords To be sure, Miss Mary Endi-
colt made a happy match when she swore ale
glance in love and honor to the Hon. Joseph
Chamberlain. She met with warm welcome
on the other side, and she has won universal adj
miration. Yet we can hardly consider the
English as strangers, since so many of our old
est families claim them as progenitors, and the
old Puritan stock from which the Endicotts
descended claim to have stepped upon New
England soil from the deck of the Mayiower."
THE VIEWS OF CUBAN LADY.
Mrs. Menoca, wife of Engineer Menocal, of
the Army, at present in charge of the Nicaraguan
Canal project, is Cuban by birth, though from
her twenty-one years of welded life in the
United States she has become a staunch Ameri-
can and true supporter of our national GUS
toms. | asked her for an expression of her
views in regard to foreign marriages, and she
replied: "It makes my heart ache to see young
girl led to the altar by foreigner. No matter
how true and deep the love may be, realize
how much there will be in her new and untried
life to test that love, and how little the young
bride knows of the widely diverse views her
husband holds in relation to the solemn respon-
sibilities OF his position as her future helpmeet
In all that relates to her domestic happiness
Had never married in this country probably
would never have understood the superiority of
the Woman's position as wife in a free land, but
since have known and enjoyed the privilege l
am more and more opposed to American girls
wedding Tor that mere rank or title that may at
first dazzle girl, but must inevitably prove
lifelong regret In other lands a wife does not
win that unity of interest with her husband that
man educated in the more liberal influences of
nXuF lfVNT off lIxr do hon
woman must sadly learn that to retain her hus-
bands affections she must never demand more
of his confidence and interest in her occupations
than he chooses to give. l am truly glad that
have no daughter to run the risk which so many
Of our girls are every day being led into, and
should never give countenance to such propo-
sal for one with whom / had any influence to
the contrary"
MRS. SENATOR MANDERsoN.
Mrs. Senator Manderson says that she is in
general opposed to foreign marriages. but does
not think that the mere fact of mans being a
foreigner must necessarily be productive of an
unhappy union. 'The only instance with which
/ am familiar" she continued, is that of
bright New York girl who some years since
married a German count, and l have never
known happier or more congenial couple.
Yet doubtless the Germans as a nation are
much more domestic in their tastes than even
the English, and there is much poetry and
practical beauty in family life among the Ger
mans This is especially the case with the
higher classes of society, who, having travelled
much and enlarged their views, have gradually
engrafted upon their national tree many en-
lightened ideas of our Republic But / must
confess that 1 do not approve of our girls mar
rying Frenchmen, for surely there will be little
or no welded happiness among people who
so poorly understand domestic JOY. An Eng
lishmen may net with propriety be term I'd a
foreigner, AID yet would not care to have any
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