The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-12-11

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-%A:43/9TSS her life in Rome
E,z9gE WI IN and used to receive
fS9%nE&G&s}C - all who were worth
SARS 1I knowing in her spa
Sa9k%3 cious drawing
E5 SkI1T13 rooms far up in the
"a dim Businesses of a
Roman palace, used
to say that she
mad only known of one really happy
marriage made by an American girl
abroad says the New York Post. In
those days, being young and inno-
cent, we considered that remark very
cynical, and in our hearts thought
nothing could be more romantic and
charming than for a fair compatrfot to
assume a historic title and retire after
ier marriage to her husbands estates,
10 rule smilingly over him and a de-
voted t%enantry, very much as it APP
pears in the last act of a comic opera,
When a rose-colored light is burning
and the orchestra plays the last bril-
hant chords of a wedding march. Then,
also, there seemed to our perverted
sense a sort of poetic justice about the
TACT that money, gained honestly but
proSalcally in groceries or g2s, should
go to rcgild an ancient nagon or prop
up the crumbling walls of some robber
stronghold abroad. Alas, many
thoughtful years and many cruel reali-
ties have taught us that our gracious
hostess of the Seventies" very nearly
was right and hat marriage under
these conditions is apt to be much
like the comic opera after the
curtain has been rung down, when the
llghts are out, the ap~plauding public
gone nome and the weary actors, slow
~ brought back to the present and the
posltlVe, are wondering how they are
TO pay the rent or dodge the warrant"
IN ambush around the corner. These
marriages come about generally from
a want Of knowledge of the world. The
lather 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
few visits the sutton declares himself:
the girl is flattered, the father loses
his head, sees visions of his loved
daughter hobnobbing with royalty, and
Intoxicating thoughtD 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-
lat1on, belongs to no 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
m 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 may 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
s%ational papers take it up and publish
faxed 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 ar autograph letter. The
act ends. Limelight and slow musici
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 a
w%retched, heartbroken woman thou
sands of miles away from the friends
and relatives who might be some COM
fort to her, makes up her mind to ac-
cept anything" for the sake of her
children, and tries to build up again
some sort of m 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
Italian family, had inherited her faith
er's business push and energy along
with his fortune, and Immediately sci
about running" the whole estate as
she had seen her father do his bank
trying 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 dowI
against all their national ~prejudices
and inherited traditions, until her new
family fairly loathed the sight of he
brisk American face, and the poor SHE
l had tried to help sulked in their newly
drained houses and refused to be com
forted. Her ways were not their ways
and she seemed to them unlike Italian
ladies-almost unsexed, as she trampeC
about the fields, talking artificial man
ure and subsoil blowing with the men
And yet neither of these people wert
to blame. And the young Italian hat
followed the teachings of his family
he had learned that the only HONORABLE
way for him to acquire wealth was tt
marry it, and his wife honestly triet
tn do bar 6utv in hpr Uav and naiVp1