The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-22

Countess of Roslyn.
 was arranged. So far as this writer knows, he Is the only American, rich or poor, who has ever married an Eng lishwoman. of title, and the Burdett- Coutts title had been in the family one generation only before he married into ft.
 New and Oid World Ancestry.
 It cannot be said. howcvcr, that the titled European men who marry Amer ican women are generally of recent en- noblement In fact, the contrary Is more often than not the case. Yet the American bride, in nearly every fa- nous international marriage, has been the daughter of new family, even as we in America reckon such things. The Marquis de Castellane, whose son. the Count Boni de Castollane, took Anna Gould, granddaughter of a poor, uneducated farmer, to wife, has writ ten over his own signature for publi- cation. We are among the oldest gem tlemen, the oldest. perhaps. in France;" and it Is true that the Castellanes fig- ured prominently very early in the his- tory of their country. The house of Marlborough not one of the very old- est among the British nobility. is still so we'll placed that the present Duke has been called the Sixth Gentleman in England" reckoning King Edward | first, The Duchess had a great grand father, yet 1t isn't much more than twenty years ago that her mother was fighting for the social recognition of | the Vanderbilts. while the Astors, say | fifty years longer in the millionaire
 class, were fighting tooth and nail to | prevent it.
 The family of Lord Curzon is by no l means new. but the father of Lady | life q street nadleF in l Chicago
 1 Contrariwise, the one American bride to figure in a famous international mar riags, who came of family prominent in colonial days. Miss Endicott. daugh- | ter of Cabinet Minister when the mar riage was sofemnized. married Joseph Chamberlain, a plain commoner, excep-
 tionally prominent in public life to be
 sure, but who has not even been | knighted for his services to his country | Gas Thomas Lipton was for giving free ly when the Queens jubilee was held,) and whose position in society, never very secure. was actually improved by
 his American marriage. Tn passing 1t should be added that Chamberlain did | not mary for money. Miss Endicotts father wasn't exactly a poor man. but | Chamberlain Is muc hricher than his | father-in-law.
 You see." said titled Briton, ex- plaining with engaging frankness to an American woman the why and where- fores, "the social distinctions of Ameri- ca mean a little less than nothing to us. If a nobleman must replenish his treasure chest by marrying an Ameri- can lti-millionairess, he has no req son for considering whether the bride- to-be can boast colonial descent or whether her father began life as a live ry stableman. From our outlook she has blood in neither case. The mere fact that in one case there has been wealth and culture in her family a lit- tie longer than in the other doesn't sig nifty. In the eyes of the American law one is on equality with the other.
 Every American girl" he added somewhat cynicaily. "is of the same le- gal rank as every other one. and is quite good enough to be the wife of any Old World aristocrat, no matter how ancient his lineage, if she is clever | enough to get him. Besides, your fair | compatriots are so adaptable" he con clud>d, conventionally, that they easi- | ly fit themselves fairly creditably to Old World ways; in this they have the ad- vantage over the rich, low-born English girl.
 That and the fact that the relatives of the American millionairess bride are likely be much less In evidence than l the relative of the English girl who l Adc hOeAAhb O1b hCh WN0Ahh SO ASNOAAA
 mend her may have something to do with the frequency of noblemen's mar
 riages with American girls. The Amer ican multi millionaire father may be no more desirable than the British one,
 but the former is probably going to
 stay on the American side of the Allan
 tic. where he Will be both out of sight
 and out of mind. and continue to pile | up millions, while the latter is liable 10
 be everlastingly in evidence"
 Some Jerome Uneonventionalities. If the late Lord Randolph Churchill ! thought he would not see a
 great deal of father in law
 and others of his brides
 relatives when he married the clever
 Am srican. Jennie Jerome, he was great " mistaken. Both Leonard Jerome
 her father, and Lawrence Jerome
 'Larry"-her uncle. father of New
 York's present somewhat 'tumultuoui
 District Attorney, began to be very
 much in evidence in England right af.
 ter the marriage and remained so al
 long as they lived. There Is no reason
 to believe that Churchill was ever an,
 noyed by the American ways of eithei
 of the Jeromes, however. for in his ear
 Her life Sir Randolph was a man O.
 poise and quite capable of carrying of
 anything whatever. Nevertheless thu
 Jeromes used often to startIe many o
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