Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1894-03-16


When bluff John Mackay stepped down
the gaugpiank Of the New York at her
American pier with his stepdaughter, the
Princess Gelonna, on his arm and ore of
her children holding his hand, while be-
hind him John lIackay, Jr., stepped
down also, leading the princess other
two children, the riddle Of her sudden
and mysterious flight from Paris was
solved She had come home to the Unit
ed States with her children and put her
self under the shield Of It's laws, as we'll as
under the powerful protection Of her
stepfather. knowing that henceforth she
would be safe from the cruelty and per-
secution Of her noble" Italian husband.
Well, her fellow eountrymen welcome
her. They are glad she had the United
States and John w. Mackay to come to.
No wonder she was cheerful and almost
gay as she set foot in her own land.
Even S115. GOO a year had not been enough
to pay for the title of mobility" that she
got with tlls person lhe married. She
paid his gambling debts for 10 years and
lived with him at Rome. But finally
S14, 800 month was not sufficient to sat
isfy the noble tastes of the noble Colonna,
and he nagged and sullyed till he got
more. Her mother at one time sent the
wife $500, 900 in addition to her yearly
allowance. The prince became more and
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for money. Then It was that he got lit
tie surprise. He came home one fine
evening and found no money, no wife,
no children, only note saying the prin-
cess had applied for a separation. The
American wife had at last shown him a
Yankee trick
By the Italian laws and most of the
laws in European countries the wife's
fortune, her children and herself belong
absolutely to her husband. As long as
she staid at Rome every cent her father
and mother gave her was the property
of her husband. At Paris she was not
much better oil The French courts de-
cided that GolonHa should be permitted
to visit his children Shefeared he would
kidnap them, 50 as to make her go back
to Italy, where he could still feed luxu-
riously On The Mackay wealth, and she
concealed the children. Then the adj
lnirable French judges said that since
she had disobeyed the court she had no
more rights As woman and a mother,
and that she must give back the children
to their dissolate, debauched father He
was their proper guardian, Nice laws,
just judges, those Of France!
When this decision was rendered, only
one thingw was left for the little American
mother. Tier brother helped her, and
she escaped from France, turning her
back forever. it is to be hoped, on her
experiences as the wife of a European
'nobleman. 1t is to be hoped also that
her three children will follow the bent
of the good, honest, plain ancestors on
their mothers side. She is of the pco-
pie, her blood untainted by the vices of
a dissolute, gambling nobility.
But we may be permitted to say that
1t is past understanding how, with the
many terrible examples before them
that "noblessea does not "oblige, Amer
lean girls will continue to sell them
selves to low down European beggars
with a handle to their names. In the
course Of couple of centuries perhaps
our girls may discover that the clean
American gentleman who respects wom-
en- is the best husband in the world.