The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-06-28

Europe or are scions of European no
bility planning to corner American
girls-and their dollars.
Certainly there is something doing
in the matrimonial market and if you
do not believe this, you have only TO
drop into 1875. But that is another
part of the story.
The American girl is indomitable
and Unsuitable The more she ac-
wants. The more she has, the more
she demands.
BY her demands she practically re-
modelled the dress marts and fashion
centers of Europe, and particularly
Paris. By her style and dash she
brought. into the wors1 Of art a new
school of painters and illustrators.
Does she demand a new color? The
looms of two continents and the dye
pots of two hemispheres are worked
over time.
Does she weary of a rose and de-
mand a new variety? The florists of
dozen nations vie to suit her mood.
Does she put the seal Of disapproval
on a new fashion? Then all the fash
ion autocrats of Paris, Vienna and
London can not make the mode sue
cess.
Wherefore should she hesitate at a
coup in the matrimonial market?
If the American girl decides that
court circles of Europe require new
blood, the yerve and vivacity which
only youthful American blood can
give, rest assured courts will be prop
erly infused with the spirit of Amer
lean young womanhood.
A couple of crowned heads across
the Atlantic have been resting uneasy
Of nights lately because one American
girl is in a fair way to marry very
close to the Italian throne. In all
the European capital American eoun-
tesses. duchesses and princesses are
making their fresh vivacious charms
tell heavily against the conservatism
which has SO long protected and en-
circled the European woman OF blue
blood and title.
Will the American girl in time set
at naught all the matrimonial con-
ventions of European nobility?
If she decides that il so pleases her
fancy she certainly will.
Time was that the American girl
who married title was a creature to
be pitied, a person SOLD for a consider
alton. But the American girl has
changed all that. Where, in a few
conspicuous instances, the girl has ex-
changed her fathers millions for a IT,
tie fringed with humiliation and I'M
happiness, there are scores Of happy
unions of this sort and scores of one
time American girls have fitted con-
tentedly, and even brilliantly into the
scheme of court life. And, what is
more, they have taught to the sprigs
of European nobility the lesson that
the personality of the American girl,
rather than her dollars, is responsible
for her social success.
The fiction of the American girl
with her maneuvering mamma trav-
cling abroad in search of a duke or a
count has long since been dissipated.
Now 1t is the duke, the count. or the
prince who travels in America. some
times as representative of his govern
ment, sometimes as a scientist or So
biologist in search of material for
books. sometimes as an independent
tourist-but always with one eye ia
vorahly inclined toward the American
girl.
Who are the European eligibles in
America today?
Perhaps the most striking figure on
the New York horizon just now is
Count Czaki, the chum of Count
Szechenyi, who made such an excellent
impression at the time of the latter's
marriage with Miss Gladys Wander
bilt.
Count Czai1i, but for the strange
fortunes of war centuries ago, might
now be on the Hungarian throne. But
a thoughtless ancestor fought in los
ing if bloody cause. and so it happens
that the present young nohleman is
merely entitled to a seat in the branch
of the Hungarian government which
corresponds to our senate or the Brit
ish House of Lords. His father, how
ever, is by the same right hereditary
ruler of the Hungarian provine in
which lie the Czaki estates. and to
this position Count Czaki will succeed.
Count Czali belongs to the same reg
iment of Royal Hussars as Count
Szechenyi and the two We're boon com
panions in Budapest. The eligible
young man can trace his family his
tory as far back as does the young no
bleman who found favor in the Van
derbilt eye, and his family is said to
be even better fixed in worldly goods.
However he desires above all things
to be free from financial obligations
10 his father, wherefore an American
girl might-but here is what he says
for himself:
IF the young lady is beautiful and
cultured" said the smiling young no.
bleman in the offices of his attorney.
A A. Kremer. No. 132 Nassau street,
Il am willing to contract marriage
providing she is worth 100000 or
100000 that is necessary to maintain
the traditions of my family"
Perhaps, from an American point of
view. the most eligible of them all is
the Baron Fairfax of Cameron. in the