The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-05-20

ooloou, says the New York Post. In
those days, being young and limo
cent" we considered that remark very
cynical, and in our hearts thought
nothing could be more romantic and
charming than for a fair compatriot to
assume a historic title and retire after
ner marriage to her husbands estates,
TO rule smilingly over him and a de-
voted tenantry, very much as it ap-
pears in the last act of a comic opera,
"hen a r~ose-colored light is burning
n he orchestra plays the last bril-
nant chords of a wedding march. Then,
aiso' there seemed to our perverted
sense a sort Of poetic justice about the
lact that money, gained honestly but
prosalcally In groceries or gas, should
30 10 regild an ancient flagon or prop
up the crumbling walls of some robber
stronghold abroad. Alas! many
thoughtful years and many cruel reali-
Ties nave taught tbs that our gracious
hostess of the seventies" very nearly
was right and that marriage under
THESE conditions is apt to be much
more like the comic opera after the
curtain has been rung down, when the
iights are out, the %appIauding public
gone home and the weary actors, slow
~ brought back to the present and the
positive, are wondering how they are
10 pay the rent or dodge the warrant
In ambush around the corner. These
marriages com about generally from
a want Of knowledge of the world. The
rather becomes rich, the family travel
abroad, some mutual friend (often
from purely interested motives) pro-
duces a sutton for the hand of the girl
IN the shape of a prince with a title
that makes the whole simple American
family culver with delight. After a
rev visits the sutton declares himself;
the girl Is f1attered, the father loses
MS head, sees visions of his loved
daughter ~hobnobbing with royalty, and
Intoxicating thought!) snubbing the
'swells" at home who had shown great
reluctance to recognize him and his
family. 1t is next to impossible for
him to get any reliable information
about his future son-in-law in a coun-
try where he has not a single social re-
lation, belongs to nc club and whose
idiom is a sealed book to him. Every
circumstance conspires to keep the
flaws In the article for sale in the
background and put the sutton in an
advantageous light. After a few weeks
wrestling. paterfamilias agrees to part
with a handsome share of his earnings
and a marriage is arranged" In the
case where the girl has retained some
OF her self-respect the sutton is Obliged
to come to this country for the cere-
mony. And, that the contrast NAV not
be too striking, an establishment is
hastily gotten together, with hired liv-
cries and new-bought carriages las in
a recent case in this state). The SEN
sat1onal papers take it up and publish
TAXED" portraits of the bride and her
noble spouse. The sovereign of the
groom's country enchanted that some
more American money is to be import
ed into his land) sends an economical
present and an autograph letter. The
act ends. Limelight and slow music!
In a few years rumors of dissent and
trouble float vaguely back to the girls
family. And finally, either a great
scandal occurs and there Is one more
dishonored home in the world, or 2
wretched, heartbroken woman thou
sands of miles away from the friends
and relatives who might be some COM
tort to her, makes up her mind to ac-
cept anything" for the sake of her
children, and tries to build I'D again
some sort OF an existence out of the re-
mains of her lost happiness, and her
father wakes up from his dream TO
realize that his wealth has only served
to ruin what he loved best in the world.
Or, again, instead of being sad, the cir
cumstances become delightfully."- comic.
as in a certain case we know of. where
the daughter, who married into an in
dolent, happy-go-lucky, impoverished
family, had inherited her faith
er's business push and energy along
with his fortune, and Immediately set |
about running" the whole estate as
she had seen her father do his bank.
to revive a half-forgotten indus
try in the district, scraping and white
washing the picturesque old villa, pro-
posing her husbands going into bust
ness, and in short dashed head down
against all their national ~prejudices
and inherited traditions, until her new
family fairly loathed the sight of her
brisk American face, and the poor she
had tried to help sulked in their newly
drained houses and refused to be com
torted. Her ways were not their ways
she seemed to them unlike Italian
ladies-almost unsexed, as she tramped
about the fields, talking artificial man
lre and subsoil blowing with the men.
And yet neither Of these people were
blame. And the young Italian had
followed the teachings of his family;
had learned that the only honorable
way for him to acquire wealth was to
marry it, and his wife honestly tried
70 do her duty in her way and naively
thought she could graft her natice
thrift and go" into the indolent Ital-
an character. But her work was all
n vain and she made herself and her
husband SO unpopular that they are
low living in this country, regretting
heir error! Another case only a little
ess laughable is that Of a fair young
girl having a neal little fortune
II her own. Once she was married to
he young Viennese of her choice, she
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