Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-02-08
WHY THEY MARRY TITLES.

The society news tells us that Miss
May Goelet is going to marry the Duke
of Buccleuch and that Miss Pauline
Astor is going TO marry his Grace of
RoxhurQe Mrs Colgate has just mar
ried the Earl Of Straford.
Now is the time for al! patriotic
Americans TO arise and cry aloud for
vengeance upon the peffidious Albiong
Now is the time Tor "al thim' tbs.
couldn't marry an heiress to save their
lives, and for all those" who never
mel lord-and never will meet one
10 gnash their teeth and howl aloud
about the "sale OF :heir girls"
Whist if they are sold ? Who cares?
What earthly difference does it make
to anyone hut Miss Goelet and her i'm
mediate friends whom she p,aTries or
Whether she gets married at ali? Who
really cares so cents worth whether
Miss Astor marFies duke or q crossing
swceper--eXcsp Miss Astor aDd the
man she marries? Why shouldn't any
and all these charming youug persons
get married early and often If they
want to? As long as they are satisfied
whose stlair OF honor is il? And why,
in the name OF ali that glitteTiug and
gorgeous and romantic AID comforta-
?, shouldn't they be satisfied?
Ii WAS = rich girl, with lot Of sd
mirers, think I'd pick out rice lit
lie belled esrl myself Why not? A
belted earl stands just as good
chanca OF being g good fellow as spec
ulation broker or man whose father
struck it rich in hogs or petroleum. 70
my mind, he stands great deal batter
chance to shine in that much-vsuuted
light. When q man wears q belt
either that Of q prize ring champion or
the one thst goes with the ermjne and
crown and things which an earl wears
wnen be goes to be took" in tne court
paiuter's studio-it means, the Oelt
does, that somebody has doue 5ome-
thing worth remembering somewhere
When society girl marries duke
everyone takes it TOR granted that she
mas sold herself Tor a title. In three
cases out of ten she may do so. In
seven cases out of ten she's in lows
with the man she ma!ries, and, es Mr.
David WarfielG says with so much
JUNCTION, "Cau you blame her ?"
A man Of title is, in most instances,
q man of gentle breeding. He may not
have good morals, but ho is almost
certain to have good manners. He
may not be q genius, bur he is pretty
sure 10 be half dozeU times more io-
;eresting than the ordinary American
society man.
The Representative American cti-
zen" who is anywhere near the eppro-
pirate age for marrying heiresses is usu
ally so busy finding ouQ how to make
himself representative that he hasn't
much time for dinners at home, sud
other pleasant little aute-matrimonial
pastimee. BY the time he is ''repre-
sentative" be has either married some
simple little woman who loved him
enough to go housekeeping in q fat and
sit up nights and leG him in from his
political meeting, after the janitor has
goue to bed, or he is confirmed bach
elor.
The society girl couldn't marry a
Representative American citizen" If she
we're 10 spend half her life 6rding oul
how to get acquainted with him. If l
had TO choose between marrying man
who was famous for a fine old name
that had come down through history,
and man who was celebrated as a
leader of cotillons, I'm afraid I'd choose
the name and take chances On teaching
the owner of it all l wanted him 10
know about the gentle art of the cotil-
lon afterward- San Francisco Exam
iner.