The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-18
IT all of my misfortunes whicl

followed.
 Before she drove away she asked for my name and address.
 Within a week I received a mes- sage giving me an appointment. In- stead of going to my parents, as l should have, I went to the palace. Af- ter that frequently met the Grown Princess. We went skating together in the Dresser Gardens, the public park where I first met her. Another place where I was permitted to en- joy her society was in the Vogelwiese, where she had me get children to- gether in groups to ride with her on the merry-go- round. About two months before the elopment of the Princess with Giron. upon my return to Dresden from Erfunt, l was arr rested at the railroad station and told to get into carriage which drew up at the city insane asylum. Here I was installed in special quarters, and provided with a piano, books, billiards and two walters.
 For twenty marks, I got one of the attendants to mail a letter to an in- fluential friend of mine who interced- ed in my behalf. Upon tPe fourth
 day of my incarceration the head doc tor came in and told me that arrange
 ments had been completed for my re-
 moval from the city. A railroad tick
 ct was handed to me by an official
 of the insane asylum, and I was put
 upon the train with my destination
 one hundred miles up into the noun
 tains Here remained until after
 the elopement of the Crown Princess,
 when I was sent out of the country"
 The strictures on American wom- en by the Countess Alexandrine Wilse- horst CorSini who says that the av- craze American husband is too good
 for his wife, have stirred up a mer- ry tempest in a tea pot here. Those club and society women who were in
 town during the heated spell of the last couple of weeks resent her criti- cism of their sex and in reply suggest that the Countess is meddling in things from which she should keep aloof. What caused the runpus was this:
 The lot of a Russian serf is com fort compared with that of the Amer can husband. Self-sacrifice is an un- known quality in the American wom- an Catering to her whims and her desires is her one law. American men make good husbands, too good, in fact They should be master in the home as we'll as in business.
 'It perplexes Europeans to find pertaining to business, and then see them take a back seat when they en- ster the doors of their homes
 ''The American husband is good but not too good" declared Mrs. Ar thur Alfred Brooks president of the Gotham Club, the other day, in reply to the strictures of the Countess. HIS mindedness and conversational stu pidfty. Until he learns that a toe cata of Galuppl's is not the newest thing in entrees, and that Michel An gelo is at least as great a person as Morgan, he will not die an untimely death because of this virtue. In the eyes of the modern woman, man who bores her is almost as bad as one who beats her.
 '"The Countess is simply trying to fit the American family to the Con- tinental measure, and it can't be done. Over there the husband is the lord and master, and when he opens hls mouth to speak let no dog bark! His wife is either his chattel or his play thing.
 .In the one case he regards her as a necessary convenience for the perpet- uation of his house. Tn the other she is his birdie, his baby. and, like other birds and babies, she must en- dure being shut up in the cage or spanked when it is her masters pleas ure. That's the European marriage.
 The great fault in this criticism by the Countess and in most of the crit. icisms made by foreigners on our marital relations, is that they adopt the wrong perspective. They direct their gaze at only a very small DOT tion of the surface of American life. They come over here with letters of introduction to leading society women in New York and elsewhere; they are immediately overwhelmed with invita- tions and attentions; they are caught in the social whirl, and they have no chance to observe any other part of American life.
 ''The American woman is not typi- fled by the women of the Four Hun dred. The real American woman is a worker, pure and simple; six mill lions of her. including many wives, | are shown by statistics to be econom- ically self-supporting.