The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-05-05
RACING FOR TITLES.
Washington Society Eagerly En-
gagged in This Pursuit.
Playing Fast and Loose with Hearts,
Fortunes and Human Souls
Bogus NOblemen Always
ON Hand.
Especial Washington Letter.

rs, Especial Washington Letter.
For forty days society tasted and
lived ascetically. The ostentation of re-
igion is part of the play of society.
But with the end of the Lenten sea-
son society went out misunderstanding
with vengeance. It is an exciting
chase, and not any more dangerous
than elephant-hunting; and some of
the husband-hunters, by the way, catch
white elephants.
Brass buttons and epaGlettes are al
ways attractive. Many of the sweet So
ciety girls who are most ostentatious
with their religious devotions during
lent are shyly keeping their worldly
and navy. In this country the brass
buttons and epaulettes stand well, in
lieu of foreign titles, althoug IN many of
our girls would prefer enfeebled, tot
tering old roues with titles to whole
some American manhood.
Society mammas in the national cap
ital are cold-blooded and calculating
Observation-Disclosures. Did you ever see a
game of baseball, where a strong pitch
er sends the ball across the plate like
rifleshot? Well, that is the way some
of these society mammas handle their
daughters. They pick them up, as a
pitcher picks up ball, and they hurl
their daughters full at the heads of the
fellows whom they want to capture.
mamma whether her daughter has a
soul or not, whether she has future
On earth or in eternity. It makes no
difference whether she is to become a
good wife and worthy mother, or
| whether the man is thoroughbred or
a moral leper. Mamma wants to marry
off her daughter, and she is going to do
it, somehow, regardless of conse-
| quences.
The quest of army and navy officers
for HUSBAND has been going on for
| years. Poor boys just out of the mill
tary and naval academies are good
catches for the daughters of rich men,
and they can easily pick their girl out of
a choice bevy. But the society mammas
are also always after the single men in
the foreign legations and embassies
Titles are preferred, always.
Unfortunately, this condition of af-
fairs is not confined to Washington
city; but we know that all over America
| there are society mammas, hurting
their daughters at the heads of spindle
shanked fools, with real, borrowed or
imaginary titles. They pay millions of
dollars for these titles, and their daugh-
tiers shed millions of tears afterwards,
as they realize that they have wasted
| their lives, and scared their souls, for
baubles light as air.
Miss Gould, Of New York, married
Count Castellane. There is no Count
Castellane. There were two Castellane
families, one from Provence and one
from Toulouse. The former. which is
now extinct, rightly bore the title. The
Toulouse Castellanes, to whom belongs
Miss Gould's husband, never had title
but assumed one when the Provence
family died out.
Count de Rohan-Chabot, who mar
ried Miss Hayward, is not count
either. His name is Chabot. The name
de Rohan he took from his first wife.
There is no Baron de Giers, although
the man whom DIR. Chauncey M. De
pew's ward, Miss Collins, married last
| year bears that name. Due Decazes
husband of Mary Singer, of New York
is the son of police project, and bears