The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-08
THE COUNTESS CASTELLANE.
Shadow of Her Father VIII Not In
terfere with Her Social Success.

Philadelphia Press.
France has had various crops of peers
in the last one hundred years OF change
and some of these titles are. those of the
consequence unless they are OF the First
empire. 1t is generally agreed by those
there are decided advantages in the old
Royalist brand of Frepch peer, whose
par u half fu century r a circumstance w which
naa exis St sae Miss GouIds count is Of
future sa happiness a that one q his near
kinsmen divorced his American wife,
and that another IS associated with se-
husbands go, rather above the average,
from the American standpoint. He has
was true eff several other noblemen who
have married American women, notori-
GUS for not paying his debts Of honor. and
he. is, take him all in all; what we would
call a mice young man.
From the European standpoint the gen.
eral impression viii be one of surprise that
of one of the worlds spectacular fortunes
with a little time, a little care and a little
within her reach by marriage AS it is,
while the Castellanes are connected by mar
enjoy princely rank, the family itself is not
either one of the ruling or one of the
princely families Of Europe. and Miss
at any affair which includes those of high
rank Her position Tor r lasta ia ero VIII net
that of the American women who have
married English dukes. great Roman
provided, of course. in the last case the
court accepted the marriage and did not
treat it as morganatic.
young American woman, has probably been
guided by her own preferences rather than
by any other considerations whatever. These
the ass same ns obv f resson which led Mrs.
S% a fS s close e say o nan u5sana English
yachting campaign that she had had the
incest time in her life a delicious dream"
membered, and his wealth is still stained
with the memory of career which no
honest man can praise ana no honorane
are held to condone all acts committed in
winning them, and they are accepted as
fortunes which a kind providence sends to
pay the mortgages and provide for the
pleasures of their titled winners. In New
ferently. Mrs. George Gould found that in
the highest English circles no difference be-
Gould has probably made similar discov-
cry and acted upon it. Nor must it be for
gotten that young nobleman w, who has
able and do nothing else generally does
have better manners. than the young. Amer
lean who has different training, IS gen.
orally much better man and nearly al
ways a much ADLER one.
Having her money, Miss Gould has natur-
ally taken it to the market in which it buys
most She has, Judging from a long list of
her predecessors, about one chance in five or
six of finding that she has bought inter
rational scandal instead of happiness. She
may also find that unlike the Americans
who marry English or German titles, she
has gone to take her place in the narrowest
and emptiest of circles Active political life
is practically closed to a young French no.
bleman; he enjoys no advantages in the
army, where rank is Won by competitive
ability; all the active occupations and pur-
him. and he does not, like a German noble
man, belong to ruling caste. He belongs.
in short not to a nobility. but to noblesse,
and he is apt to end by distinguishing him
self in dissipation, the one career III which
he has no equals and fol. which he has many
natural and inherited advantages.