The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-22
wnY NOT AMrnrCAN oUnuuss

Why should there not, some day. pc an American woman on the throne of one of the old world nations? Not that we think there would be any special honor to good American wo- man in becoming the consort of king. but that we look on such an event as not beyond the possibilities. Many American women have married into the nobility of Europe. Some of them have married Dukes, and the one who became vicerine of India was almost royalty. Of the grades of nobiemen below that of duke there have been hundreds who have found wives on this side.
 AS matter of fact one or more Of our American girls have narrowly es- caped royalty. Jerome Bonaparte, who married Miss Patterson. of Baltimore afterwards became King of westphaiia' but not until his marriage had been annulled by his brother. who had oe- come Emperor of France, and who objected to any American pieoeiah blood, in his family And yet ms own Empress. Josephine, was born Tn the Island of Martinique, one of the west Indies, and was therefore really an American by birth, though not of the American colonies.
 But some day there will be a genuine, United states American on some Euro poan throne. Such things happen In romance. but one of, these days 1t Will happen in real life. The prince who comes a-wooing will be no Cophetua enamored of . beskar maiden with paltry pittance of ten thousand year. Royalty will drop it's handkerchief at the feet of some muiti-millionaire daughter. and the precedent of nearly three hundred of her American sisters wearing titles abroad argues that she will pick it up. Her fortune will re- habiIitate the estates of her suitor and the revenues of his realm. Then there will be an American queen, who has come by her titles in. better fashion than any silly "daughtfr of the crown" who traces her, descest by the backstairs route to the Condueror or his progeny.
 Many European aspirant to throne has looked with longing eyes across the water at some fair daughter of the United States and has wished that he could throw of the restraints, and con ventionaiities. ''the divinity which doth hedge about king" and choose for himself wife among the daughters of a free republic, regardless of the traditions and conventionalities which force him to choose spouse with a
 strain of royal blood in her veins.
 These old world royalties, in the language of contemporary, "are all SC intermarricd and interrelated that the advent of a bride who is a positively new factor should suffice to make theii hlase highness sit up with real atten' | tion. For the good of their offsprine | the infusion of a little fresh Ameri' can blood should be welcomed. The various royal and imperial stock 1 threaten to deteriorate and die out altogether through repeated inbreeding In the old days this tendency was cor rected by the occasional introduction of new blood that was no less vigorous because fllegitimate. Recruiting from that source Is not so easy now, and the rights of future generations simply cIamor for a new deal in the line ol blood. If the dynasties will go back ten centuries they will find their found CTS picking and choosing humber help meets than the New Worlds daught. ers.'
 If sue ha thing should happen wt suspect that some of those old world danes who trace their descent back even through the back door---to some swashbuckler who ruled over a nation of savages would feel that the sacred precincts of royalty had been invaded and the walls of exelusiveness battered down.
 And yetIt would be a good thing fol royalty, whether the same could be said of the intruder or not. If a few genuine, virile American women could attain to some of the thrones of Europe and infuse a strain of strong and healthy blood into the royal families the latter WOuiu Dc tuS OcHShCiaiiSS Even the 'besgari maid. if she was good and wholesome American wo- man, would be great Improvement or some of the present occupants oi thrones. She might not be able to trace her family back to some monarch of centuries ago. but she would dc much better for she would bring to the throne a sound mind in a sound body and that would be more than some queens do. If the kingdoms and mon- archies of Europe will take the brides off and allow the prospective rulers tc come across and wed American girls there would doubtless be great i'm provement in the quality of royalty in few generations.
 
 WHOLESALE DISFRANCHIsEMEN
 Tn another place on this page will be found an article from The Birmingham Age-Herald, under the above caption.