Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1903-09-16

SecOud-That the American girl is much more at
tractiVe than the English girl.
ThIrd-That 1t is insult to the honest Amer
ican who is left.
The honor to American girls and the slight upon
English girls will be more apparent when some En-
glish Duke shall have married an American girl
with no cash. There arevery few English girls to
be found possessing ten more millions OF dollars
The charge Of lack Of patriotism is foolish. If
the American girl can select French hat without
loss of patriotic prestage there is reason why she
should not select an English husband, since she Sc
lects the husband and the hat in very much the
same way.
AS to the poor, slighted American men, they
must look out for themselves.
Those who deplOre and preach about the Amer
ican girl and her titled husband may be interested
to hear the opinions OF an American woman who
married her daughter to foreigner OF very high
rank
''Ii you study the marriages among the very rich,
among the sO-called -Four Hundred you will find
that the American husband-at least the man that
picks out the rich girls not all that he is repre-
sented as being
'I intended my girl to be kept occupied, to have
a career, and that is why married her to man
with big position abroad
''NOw she is busy all the time and out Of mis-
chief. She has estates. and tenants to think about
She goes to public functions, goes to court goes TO
the laying OF c0rnerstones.
''She is really busy and really interested, with ,
great deal TO occupy her mind ia addition TO her
children.
81 consider her very much better of than If
1 had married her to some American who wOnld
have lived from Chicago or New York to Newport
and back again on her money.
ii "The American husband perhaps would have en-
iOyed himself with the millions that he got. be
also would probably have expected my daughter to
sit about looking at him and admiring him. pre-
r fer to have her busy as she is now"
ha oHa~va = - -
words of q woman whose daughter married one Of
the biggest titles within recent years.
t The tactis that the very rich American girl is ex-
tremely apt to marry an idle man. She is beseged
from the start with men Who want her mOney-peF-
haps many OF them honestly think that they want
her. In any case, these men who surround her and
who want to marry her, whether Americans or for
egners, and men who want to lead an idle life and
leDioy themselves without any effort
lt is not pleasant to see an American girl going
to contribute her fathers money to foreign fun.
, merry.
But really, If she must marry an idle man, It ii
probably Just as we'll for her to marry who haG
made business OF being idle, and one who under
stands that sort OF occupation.
II y0R look through the divorce court records you
will find on the whole that the titled Englishma1
n with rich American wife is not more apt to make
her unhappy than the untitled, do-nOthing American
with q rich American wife,
The pity is that mistaken affection, by piling N
D money on girrs head, should make her the obiec
D OF commercial value and deprive her Of norma
cOurtshlp and the normal pleasures Of life
but remember that the American girl who decides
to take Duke for her money, with an that the 81
{ cupation and excitement Of being Duchess brings
Is not such fool as some would think. She ma,
get more out Of her life, after all than she would
have done BY marrying an American imitation Of a
Englishman with few extra American bad habits
thrown in.