The Washington herald., 1910-04-17
By EX-ATTACHE.

By EX-ATTACHE.
While most people in Europe share the
aversion entertained in this country to
unions between the white and colored
races, yet there has always been an i'm
preston that Americans carry this preju-
dice to the extreme when they insist upon
CHASING as colored persons white people
in whom the negro blood has become al
most imperceptible or wholly so and in
whom the African strain is unrecogniz-
able save by experts
/ The laws Of North Carolina and OF
other Southern States. insisting that any
one having even One-sixteenth of negro
blood shall be regarded as a negro. have
always seemed trihe harsh 20 nations,
such as those of Europe. which have not
been confronted by such problems OF
race as those with which the United
States is called upon 20 deal The suit
now pending in the Supreme Court Of
Louisiana to determine the validity OF
Judge Chret;en's recent decree, in which
he declared that an octoroon could not
be c'assed as Colored. is exciting great
deal Of attention i'm England and on the
continent Of Europe The interest IS all
the more pronounced a. there are many
persons OF high rank and even OF Illus
trious birth. who are known 10 have
blood of one or another Of the dusky
races in their veins
Contempt for the Mixers.
/ It is not that Europeans like matrimo-
rial alliances between whites and blacks
/ any more than Americans do. and the
one peer of the British realm in modern
{ times who went 10 the length OF marry
ling full-fedsed Hottentot woman, the
l late Earl Of Stamford. rendered himself
an outcast, regarded with contempt even
! by the poorest and humblest Of his own
Icountrymen. The prejudice is not con-
fined TO blacks
/ Some well-knowR Enslishmen in North
ern India who. at the risk Of incurring
the penalties Of the law provided for abb
duCtion. deliberately kidnapped a white
woman and conveyed her In durance "a
Australia I'm order TO prevent her marry
ing a rajah Of high degree. other white
women who have welded Indian petty
lrulers-there have been at least a dozer
of such instances during the last twenty
1--we years-have cut themselves entirely
adrift from their own people who would
have nothing more 10 do with them. The
American woman who married the former
/ Chinese Minister PlenipOtentiary I'm Paris
encountered a. much il-win on every
side on the banks Of the Seine as IN,
German baroness Of ancient lineage who
became the wife Of the japanese Ambas
sador at Berlin. Viscount AolL White
officials In the Orient when they marry
women OF one Of the dusky races MAJ
their future and meet with disapprova
ION the part OF their superior, no matte
how lofty the rank Of their bride no
ihow ulustrious her birth.
There have been instances Of English
linen wedding Indian princesses. Tw,
Englisamen. the one peer of the realm
now dead and the other a knight. tn
late Sir Halliday Mccartney. contracte,
matrimonial alliances with daughters o.
IChinese mandarins. while the late ST
Edwin Arnold, after the death OF hi!
Boston-born wife. married a Japanes,
lady Of excellent birth of the name o.
Kwokawa Tama. now Lady Arnold
Recalled for His Match.
Count Henri COudenhove. while charg,
Id'affaires of the Austro-Hungarian EN-
ipire at Tokyo fell In love with a Japa
lnesesYoman Of the name Of MItsu Aoya.
ma. and after having secured her CONVEX
sion from Shintoism TO Roman Catholi
cism led her to the altar and transformed
her into Countess Coudenhove. the mar,
riage being followed by his recall and tn,
abrupt termination Of what promised C
be a most brilliant career in the diplo
matte service of his country.
White peoTse who have a strain Of AZ
rican or Asiatic blood In their veins
more Or less strongly pronounced. are
not on that account subjected 10 all sorts
of legal disabilities. as in America. OF
even to social discrimination: and the