Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1904-01-21
MARRYING FOR TITLE
As It Is Viewed by One Who Be-
usvss In Dukes, Bic.
Nobody for American Heiressss to
Marry Bat Some Foreigner of
POsduOn, IL the Expert
Opinion.

The other day the next duke to
marry an American girl entered a
restaurant in Fifth avenue to take
luncheon with one Of the family he is
soon to join. In few minutes every
table in the room buzzed with con-
versation on the subject of the mar
riage, says the New York Sun
"It's very good thing" said one of
three women who bowed to the duke,
"and nothing could be more ridiculous
than all this talk of buying a title.
When girls are as rich as this one,
there is practically nobody for them
to marry but some foreigner with as
much position as he has"
"Another thing that people never
seem 10 think about when they criti-
else these foreign marriages." said an
other of the trio, rs that these girls
do not want money and have no earth
ly use for any more. For that reason,
there are no grounds for their trying
to marry the rich men OF their own
country.
For one Of them to marry a poor
man would in most cases be quite as
much criticised as II she took for
eigner, and all sorts of things would
be said about the man who married
and settled down to live on his wife's
income.
He might be great author or in
ventOr or artist, and in that way be
an appropriate match for her. But
of that kind among the men that
girl of position could marry. Then
the utmost that she could enjoy any
how would be the reflected glory Of
being his wife.
But duchess is something In her
own name. She has her own honOrs
and her own special privileges.
Then there is great deal in the
life she sees to interest a woman who
wants some change from the monotony
of society and dOmesticty She Is
sort Of little, perhaps very little,
queen, and there are delights in the
life she leads to be found nowhere
else"
And when it's all said and done"
chimed in the third one Of the group,
there is a certain kind of glory about
having a good title that any woman
enjoys so long as she has the other
things that go with 1t. II she has the
money to live up to 1t in the right
way, that sort of life offers more than
any in this country.
''If it were customary for the Amer
lean men that the women OF wealth
meet here to go into politics. there
would be much more in their own
country for these immensely rich girls.
They could go to Washington and take
part in official life there
But that happens only when girls
who have married foreigners come
back here with them. The only wOm-
en- OF wealth who play any part in
social life there that would be agree
able to New York women are those
that have been married to men in the
foreign diplomatic service.
"As it is there is practically nobody
left for these great heiresSes to marry
but foreigners of title. And the happi-
ness of the women who have done that
shows the wisdom of it when the men
they marry are worthy OF their affec
ton. Nowadays the mothers usually
see to that.
The dissipated and penniless for
eigner as a husband for the American
heiress is a thing of the past. The
American girls now get the pick OF
the oldest titles and the most attrac-
tive of the men"
These opinions were uttered while
the trio from time to time glanced at
the young man who had created so
much interest in the restaurant. From
the attitude of the crowd that looked
at him there was evidently something
OF the same feeling among the other
guests But 1t was in any case only
the sentiment Of luncheon hour
gathering In a Fifth avenue restau-
rant.