The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-29
WILL TRY TT AGAIN.

~ -' tfe~sPStHttHes Ecitafho 1nS Kansas cty Journal. '.to witness the persistency with which Mme. Anna Could elinss to the putrescent French nobility. Having suffered intclerabis humiliation as the wife of Count Boni de casteilane. she has now indicated her purpose to marry his cousin. Prince Heiie de sagsn, who. If reports are true is as pusiilanimous ioafer as Is to be found in all Patis. The recent disgusting escapade between Count Boni and Prince Helie. when the two scions of nobility rolled in the gutter like . couple of CUTS. is still fresh in public mind"
 It will always be a mystery to the average American citizen that rich American heiresses should actually sell themselves and their fortunes for foreign title. when observation should teach them that in rnany--if not ma jority of csses--the title is all they get in return for themselves and theif money. The fact that some of these foreign alliances turn out well and sat isfactory seems to so excite the envy or ambition of other young women with large fortunes that they are not strong enough to resist the dazzle and glow of coronet or other insignia of rank. Proof upon proof may be placed before them that the alleged title is spurious. or that Its owner is in every way disreputable. or that he is only marrying her to retrieve his broken fortunes. or to get more money to spend in dissipation and low rev- elry: we say she may have ample op- portunity to inform herself on all these points. yet she will not hesitate to fol- low, examples which she knows have turned out badly.
 Take this case of Anna Gould. as a sample. She could not plead ignorance of the character and standing of the man she married She had every op- portunity to learn all about him, to acquaint herself with his disreputable character--and to know that he want cd her for her money. Yet in spite of all this she married him and the union turned out just as she had right to expect. After but compar-. atively brief experience with a disrep- utahle cad she is freed from him and one would naturally think that one. experience of the kind would have been enough. but evidently 1t was not. Un- less reports and indications are all wrong she will marry one who is lit- tie. if any batter than castellane. It is true that unless she obtains the con- sent of her family there may be some embarrassing financial details which will cool the ardor of her fortune hunting prince and send him back un- mated to the country he diseredlts. If on the other hand. brother George gives his consent and arranses for Anna to bestow on her noblemAn the millions he wants and needs. the mar riage will probably be consurnmated and the divorcad wife of one disreputa- ble cad will become the victim of sn- other of the same breed
 How is such mfatuatfon on the part of sensible American women to be &C., counted for? It would be desecra- tion of the word to call it love. for we cannot conceive that one spark of that sacred feeling exists on either side. It has been said that no man can fathom a woman's mind. and perhaps that is true. for certainly no ordinary hu- man intelligence can explain Anna Gould's conduct, except upon the sole theory that she wants title and is willing to. obtain it at any sacrifice. That ia the only theory upon which 1t can be explained and that is not at all creditable to American woman hood.
 All of this scandal" concludes The ScINoS lO Into ETdLe- full relief the character and achieve ments of Miss Helen Gould. Ths lat ter had as good chances as her sister of marrying a foreign title. but she elected to remain single and to de- vote her life to philanthropy. Amer lea has a right to be proud of Miss Helen Gould. Her life has been sig nally fruitful of good works. George Gould. the brother. is a thoroughly representative American business man in character. as far above such puny vsgabonds as Castellane and Sagan as decency and honor are above knavery and depravity. It is to be hoped that the Gould family will keep the rem nant of Mime. Anna Gould's fortune on this side of the water. which may save her from deeper immersion in the foul well of titled French society,""
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