The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1906-02-20

sree as he bewaiis the loss Of his wife
and children
II was not dificult to predict the
troubles Of the Gould-Family- -castellane
from the start Miss Could for some
reason suricient to herself no doubt,
but rather hard 70 understand, wanted
q title Having plenty Of money, she
bought one. with its incumbrance.
Said incumbrance needed the money.
A business deal, based on the princi-
pies of supply and demand; and yet,
as divers philosophers have pointed
out, coed business proposition IS not
always the best basis for matrimony.
We have several times in
sisted that there shodld be some sys-
sem inaugurated whereby American
girls with money could procure titles
without being under the necessity Of
marrying these pink-eyed little Europ-
can rats OF the eostellane type. we
have no fault to find with the natural
feminine desire for decorative effects,
and title is no doubt decorative. And
yet the girls pay too much for them.
Not particularly in money. because il
a young womans pa tells her that she
has carte blanche TO turn a brewery or
soap factory into ducal ta-ra-ra
that's a matter between her and her
pa. 1t is in happiness that she pays
too Riach
There is IA very simple remedy-the
creation of some American titles.
They need not necessarily near any
thing, you know, but they could be
sold to the young women having de-
sire for them for million or 80 dollars
each and the money turned into the
United States treasury, or applied to
The creation of bureau designed to
freeze out impecunious European
tramps with carefully cultivated bad
manners. If such bureau, under the
general direction of the national immi-
grafton commission. had been in exist
ence a few years aog Boni might never
have got into America and the Ameri-
can dollars which he has catered
from hell to breakfast would be
breeding other American dollars and
aS'lsting in the induIrial develop
ment OF the country.
With such a system in operation a
I girl could apply directly to the govern
ment for a title, pay down her little old
million, and pick ont. from the menu
cards in the restaurant, or the hysteri-
cal novels by the latter-day imitators
Of Alexandra Dumas, any style with
the sonorous cadences Of which her
ear was tickled All the equipment
which would be needed by the govern
ment bureau would be receiving tel
ler's window and a wine list. And
things should be fixed so that when a
girl got tired of being the Princess
Pate-foi-gras she could pay a couple
of hundred thousand dollars and be-
come the Duchess de la vim ordinaire
of COmptesse Won Lieber-Augustnee-
Won -Budweiser, or any other aristo-
ratic-sounding-thing that pleased her
fancy. The manufacture of imported
beer is quite a home industry, so is the
preparation OF imported champagnes-
is there any reason why We should not
have some homemade foreign titles as
well? What Is the protective tariff
good for anyhow?
If, after buying title, young lady
should still want to marry an Europ
can, she could find plenty of husky
Hungarian coal miners in Pennsyl
vania, Illinois and West Virginia who
would be, on the whole, much better
husbands than the gilded youth Of the
European capitals And there would
be an added advantage in having the
European husband at home where big
brother could use club on it If 1t did
not treat its wife well.
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