The Green Forest tribune., 1910-04-22

the water think much more oI IIle than they do on the other. There they are accustomed to them, they know whence they have been deflYed' and their present value.
 To the American woman title typi- fies something great and grand ana beyond ordinary humanity. visions fit through her mind of gilded palaces, throngs of worshipers lowing down before the majesty of nobility, ana ao- dressing her as lady, countess, ducheSs and princess. She never dreams that the coronet usually turns into brass and signifies nothing but decadeht race. profigate, immoral, poverty stricken and that instead of a crown of glory it will only be a weight Of shame on her head to crush her to the earth in humiliation and despair writes Dr. Madison c. Peters, in the Chicago Tribune.
 Most of our American girls who have allowed themselves to be caught by the tinsel of foreign titles have realized too late their fatal mistake. They passed from happy homes of freedom to pine and die in gilded cages or to gain freedom again by the door of the divorce court, and their once white wings become draggled and their gorgeous plumages soiled for ever.
 Whole Story Not to Be Told.
 What the allurement of European l. -taI, non of our country in suffering and degra- dation can never be fully told. for much of it is concealed. The record of our rich unfortunates is, indeed, a sad one.
 One of the most deplorable features about the slaughter of the innoeents, aside from the sorrow and shame which money cannot estimate, is that so much of the hard-earned gold of America must be wasted and squan- dered by worthless blackguards and profligates, when it might be used to ameliorate the sad condition of the millions of workers who made the money.
 For the empty title of a countess. Anna Gould sacrificed $15 100000 of her fathers money and her honor as well. She is now the wife of another equally notorious prince.
 Clara Ward Exception to Rule.
 Everybody is familiar with the story of Clara Ward of Detroit, Mich, who became the so-called princess de Chimay. Her husband, contrary to all other princes, was too respectable and quiet for her She ran away with the wandering fiddler known to notoriety as Rigo.
 Edith Collins, a great, great grand daughter of old Commodore Wander bilt, married Prince Czaykowski, a Pole, in the Turkish diplomatic serv- ice. This man was arrested for mis- conduct and dismissed from his post He ill treated his wife, she sued for di- vorce in Paris. The proceedings were not made public because the testimony was too scandalous even for Paris.
 Evelyn Bryant, daughter of Mrs. John W. Mackay, married the Prince Colonna-Stigliano, a gambler and a drunkard. He compelled her to sell her jewels and her wedding presents and forced her to appeal to her mother for money. She divorced him.
 Miss Winnaretta Singer twice threw away her chances and her many mill lions on European unworthies-first the marquis de Scey-Montbeliard and next the Prince Edmond de Polignac.
 The list of unfortunate international marriages is so long that to give it would be equal to a compilation of Who's Who in the Martyrology of American Actresses"
 Will They Learn by Example?
 Some of the prominent victims must suffice as warning to the silly butter flies of wealth and of fashion who would fain sip the nectar from the pol luted chalices of broken down Euro pean nobility, the nectar which turns to deadly poison on the lips and leaves its victims moral corpses on the high way of life.
 Consuelo Vanderbilt married the duke of Marlborough, who squandered