The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-02-18
ANOTHER TITLED MARRIAGE FAILURE.

The French court, which has given
the care of the husband, has exercised
vain function. The princess and her
children are in New York, and the Mac
kays will doubtless see to 1t that no plot
OF the italian prince to spirit the chill
dren away shall succeed.
This lie one of the many instances in
which American girls have wrecked
themselves for the purpose Of securing
titled husband. There have not been
more than enough exceptions to this
kind of denousment to such unnatural
marriages to establish it as the rule.
The public only learn of the few cases
in which these messlliances end in rup-
ture when they have reached degree
Of scandalous notoriety. Nellie Grant
bore her sad lot in silence, and contin-
ued to all outward appearances to be
reconciled to brute who made her life
miserable by the mesnness of his treat
ment until death put an end to his per-
secutions.
What else can an American girl ex-
pect when she exchanges her wealth for
title? Her lord and master, after the
Arst glow of the honeymoon ia over,
looks upon the sacred relation of matri-
mony as a mere matter of bargain and
sale. and holds the wife he has pur-
chased with a title as q merchantable
srticle. He rarely has even the busi-
ness faculty sufficiently developed to re-
alize that he also has sold himself, and
that therefore in that respect they stand
upon equal ground. The motive on both
sides ia calculated to breed mutual con-
tempt in reasoning minds, and when
that kind of feeling results, the explosion
Ia not far of. In the great majority of
cases. the husband has been fast man
"a libertine and q gamblsr-and is
hopelessly in debt. To straighten him
self with his creditors is often his most
urgent motive to wed the giddy Yankee
girl with the ducsts. The divine senti-
ment Of love, even of respect, rarely en-
ters iato the transaction on either side.
1t IL marriage generally of the most
contemplate order of convenience, and
Why should it be followed by felicity or
happiness? What consideration OF re.
spect can the Princess of Hatzfeld DIT have
for husband who had to be taken out
OF pawn for bis gambling debts by her
father, q. P. Huntington, before the
marriage could DO solemnizsd2 And in
turn what respect can the roue prince
have for the princess who could marry
man won by such means?
Adele Grant of New York has lust
bought the Earl of Essex and the niece
of II. W. Carpenter, whose fame in
California "a gatherer of money, by
fair means or otherwise, still fingers in
the memory of the old inhabitants, is
about to take the title OF Princess ,Poti-
stowski in exchange for the reversion Of
the California schemer's wealth. Will
connubisl bliss crown these matrimo-
NAL ventures, or will history repeat
itself? The sacred institution OF mar.
rage is governed by laws as imperative
as those which govern the spheres, and
retribution for their outrage or violation
is as inevitable as death. The world
may not hear of the manner in which
the penalty is exacted in sll cases, but
the most agonizing and embittersd pun
ishment for woman is that in which
she suffers in silence from neglect and
. studied contempt which only her eye
can see, or an indifference which only
Der heart can realize.
AS contemporary observes, the Eu-
ropesn hook is bsited not only with
treasures of art and marvsls of antiquity,