The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1893-02-28
DEARLY love A LORD.
That is a Weakness OF Some
American Girls.
The laundering for a Title Strong
Among Eastern Heiresses, People
ing Proper Pride in Their Nativity.

Although the Americans are supposed
to be plain republican people, there is,
nevertheless a great deal of admiration
among certain classes of our citizens for
the pomp and glitter of European royalty.
In fact certain Americans pay large sums
to go to Europe every year to bask in the
mellow sunshine of royalty. This is par
ticularly the case with wealthy American
ladies. They fairly yearn to acquire ducal
coronets, etc, no matter what they have
to pay for them. 1t is not saying too much
10 assert that some rich American ladies
are so anxious to marry a Lord or
Duke that an orang-outang with a title
would not De safe from them. If American
| heiresses continue to squander their warm
affections on foreign noblemen, bogus
and otherwise-tor the false Count is gen.
orally the one the American girl cap
| tures-we will soon have to establish a
! peerage here, so as to keep the money in
the country. This being so, perhaps
! after all Ward McAllster and the four
hundred" are actuated by patriotic mo-
! tives in attempting to organize a local no
bility and gentry that Will be able to
| compete successfully with the imported
| article. This American alteration of the
decayed European nobility is all the
more lneXpllcaDle to the New \ DIRK Her
AID from the fact that anybody with half
an eye can see that most OF the European
| potentates are preparing to make an as
! sIgnment for the benefit OF their credi-
tors, with view Of retiring permanently
to the shades of private life. Every once
in while we read of a European poten-
tate being chased out OF his dominion by
his Disguised subjects, and almost all of
them are ready to run on moments
warning. Queen Isabella of Spain, for
| instance, did not even get a weeks no.
tice. The King of Roumauia was treated
pretty much in the same way.
EASTERN ToADYIsM To TITLES.
| And, yet if Lord Hungerford Starve-
dale OF otarvedale Abbey, son of the old
Earl OF Shortmoney, comes to New York
with baggy clothes and an accent that
suggests treatment for chronic catarrh he
has 10 lock himself up in his room at his
hotel to avoid social courtesies being
| showered on him. While we make such
| Queen Victoria has taken official notice
OF the nobility being on the down grade,
for she invariably addresses Parliament
as My Lords and Gentlemen carefully
separating the latter from the former
The nickle-plated foreign noble who
| marrieS an American heiress and whose
| pedigree runs back into the Middle \ ges
is occasionally very much shocked after
the marriage to discover that perchance
| the mother of that fair bride used to take
in washing, and that her father, at one
time before he struck 1t rich studied nat
ural history as an elephant attendant in a
cheap circus. a discovery of that kind
must take all the backbone out of a scion
of some noble family whose ancestors
have not done anything like work since
the cruSadeS.
Personages of high degree are not sup
posed to work under any circumstances.
King Otto OF Bavaria puts i'll all his time
! peellng potatoes, and mis- subjects say he
is insane. Any member of royal family
who voluntarily works is regarded as in
! sane in Europe. a river becomes more
narrow and more insignificant as we as
! cend to its source. The stream of ances-
try, on the contrary, is often vigorous,
| pure and powerful at the fountain head,
| but becomes feeble, shallow and corrupt
as it flows downward. The fact, how
ever, is not to be overlooked that the re-
| spectacle middle classes of American So
| clety, which is the mincemeat between
the upper and the lower crust, has no
earthly use for the European nobility.
They share the views of the American
procer in Little Lord Fauntleroy," who
seriously objected to Earls sitting around
on the barrels in his grocery. The
American press, which is really the voice
of the people, abounds in irreverent al
lusions to high personages who claim to
rule by divine right.
WESTERN IRREVERENCE FOR ROYALTY.
For instance, the following little gem
was going the rounds of the papers not
long ago:
poor Perkins, who married the Queen
of Spain's niece, is still in Jail on account
of that wash bill. Mrs. Perkins and the
two little Bourbon twins go to see him
regularly" Here is another editorial re-
mark from Texas journal: 1.-The Crown
Prince of Italy can speak six different
languages. This accomplishment will
come in handy when he takes his organ
on his back and starts on the tour of for
eign countries" Observe in the follow
ing extract from a Kansas paper the
healthy sarcasm which the editor enter
tains for armorial bearings and similar
sacred things: Yesterday Jim Gale flung
to the breeze fine transparency. 1t bears
the Gale coat of arms, which consists of a
lady's boot couchant, black berry vine
growing out OF the top, While underneath
Is the motto Boots and Shoes in
scribed."
II it were required unlimited proof
could be produced that the average Amer
lean editor. at least, does not fawn, even
at long range, on the crowned heads OF
Europe. How is this from the leading
journal in Guadaloupe County, Texas:
The Sultan of Zanzibar has sent Vic a
monkey. Now, If some one would pre-
sent her with barrel organ the Guelph
family will have an opportunity to en-
gage in more legitimate business than
robbing the English taxpayers" AT the
same time it must not be taken for
granted that the Americans are utterly
devoid of aristocratic tendencies eyeu
among the humbest classes. We have
cattle kings, coal barons, merchant
princes, society queens and various other
-
the arlStocratlc instinct that is born in
man, and embraces women, of course. is
only dormant and not extinct by any
manner of means in the American BOSOM
Occasionally would-be American aristo-
Gratis tamper with the unbribed and I'M
bought press, as can be seen in the fol-
| lowing item from the A3k0HSGW Tooth
pick; Jim Peterson, that prince of gem
tlemen and car of culture, who recently
presented us with box OF fine-favored
cigars, has secured the contract for build
ing the plank sidewalk in front of the
Gibson Block. Jim is gentleman OF the
old school, and he knows good piece of
plank when he sees it,"
TRUE AMERICAN ROYALTY.
| Our American aristocracy Is making
| great strides in spite of the socialistic
tendency of the age. Money talks, or as
it is neatly said by an unidentified poet:
| ''Ihe coming aristocracy is one of WORTH"
| Cries democratic Jones, unmindful OF the
mirth;
But Dives, plutocrat. and cynical of such.
Putting a scornful cloud, inquiries, How
much?"
| While we have no American Dukes or
! Counts, or Vlscounts, we have discounts.
! Our rich people are our mobility and
gentry" and we have got so far that some
/ of our society people are bogus, and their
| gentility consists of eating meat with a
silver fork when the butcher has not been
paid. Such persons are regarded with
great scorn by those vino are really