The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-30
WHY THEY MARRY TITLES.
"a BeIted Earl stands as Good
Chance of Being n Good Fellow as
n RrOIxerv

Chance of Being "a Good Fellow as
a Broker"
From the San Francisco Examiner
The society news tells us that Miss May
Goeet is going to marry the Duke Of
Bucceluch and that Miss Pauline Astor is
going to marry his grace of Roxburghe
Mrs Colgate has just married the Earl
OF STAFFORD
Now is the time for all patriotic Ameri-
cans to arise and cry aloud for vengean e
upon the perfidious Alblons.
Now is the time for "all thin" that
couldn't marry an heiress to save their
lives. and for all those" who never met
a lord-and never will meet one-to gnash
their teeth and howl aloud about che
sale of our girls"
What if they are sold? Who cares?
What earthly difference does il make to
any one but Miss Goelet and her immo
date friends whom she marries or whether
she gets married at all? Who really cares
30 cents worth whether Miss Astor weds
a duke or crossing sweeper-except Miss
Aston and the man she marres? Way
shouldn't any and all of these charming
young persons get married early and often
if they want to? As long as they are sat
isfed whose affair of honor is 1t? And
why, in the name of all that's glitterlng
and gorgeous and romantic and comfort
able, shouldn't they be satisfied?
If l were a rich girl, with a lot of ad-
mirers, think I'd pick out a nice little
belted earl myself. Why not? A belted
earl stands just as good a change of being
a good fellow as specializing broker or a
man whose father struck il rich In hogs
or petroleum. To my mind, he stands a
great deal better chance to shine in that
much-vaunted light. When man wears A
bet--either that Of a prize ring champion
or the one that goes with the ermine and
crown and things which an earl wears
when he goes to be took In the court
painters studio-it means, the belt does
that somebody has done something worth
remembering somewhere.
When a society girl marries a duke
everyone takes II for granted that she has
sold herself for a title. In three cases out
of ten she may do 50. In seven cases out
of ten she does not. In seven cases out of
ten she's in love with the man she mar
Ties, and, as Mr.. David Warfield says with
so much JUNCTION, Can you blame her?"
A man Of title Is, in most instances. a
man of gentle breeding. He may NOT have
good morals, but he is almost certain to
have good manners. He may not be
genius, but he Is pretty sure to be half a
dozen times more interesting than the or
binary American society man.
The representative American citizen"
who is anywhere near the appropriate age
for marrying heiresses is usually so busy
finding out how to make himself represen-
tative that he hasn't much time for din
ners and at homes and other pleasant
little ante-matrimonlal pastimes BY the
time he is representative" he has either
married some simple little woman VINO
loved him enough to go housekeeping in
a fiat and sit up nights and let him In
from his political meetings. after the iani-
tor has gone to bed, or he Is confirmed
old bachelor.
The society girl couldn't marry rep
resentative American citizen" II she were
to spend half her life finding OUT how 10
get acquainted with him. II had 10
choose between marrying a man who was
famous for a fine old name that has come
down through history and a man who was
celebrated as leader of cotillons, I'm
afraid I'd choose the name and rake
chances on teaching the owner Of ID ali
wanted him TO know about the gentle art
OF the cotillion afterward.