Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-12

set None OF their parents whose MAP
riages were also arranged are separated or
divorced and never hear of any scandals in
their families Then, too, she added: There
are no old maids among the girls who went
to school when did, and their people were
not all wealthy, either"
Miss Drexel is very young and very attract
i've She has been a great favorite In the
Newport set and has undoubtedly been more
feted and courted than any other girl there.
She will celebrate her twenty-first birthday
during the Winter. Her dissatisfaction with
her present social environment may arise
from the fact that she has had too good
time!
During the Summer this heiress to ten mil
lion dollars was converted to suffrage through
Mrs. Belmonts work, and this conversion has
added to her indictment against American
society.
when marry, want my husband to have
political career, and I don't like American
politics Just see how much Mrs Waldorf
Aston has done for her husband. That is
what want to do. 1t looks, she added as
though / should have to marry and English
mani"
AS first step, toward this marriage Miss
Drexel has decided to be presented at court
Immediately after her return from the pro-
posed trip around the world She is then to
visit her cousin, the Viscountess Maidstone,
whose husband plans to enter upon a seri-
GUS public career this Winter.
Miss Drexel Is the latest and most inter
eSllnB huulLlOn 10 q long llSL philosophers,
psychologists and novelists, who have dis
cussed the nternationl marriage
Miss Drexel has won a convert to her way
of thinking, in Miss Lila Bramhall Gilbert
a neice Of William Gould Brokaw and Mrs
Preston Satterwhite. Miss Gilbert is one OF
the extremely wealthy heiresses OF New
York She will inherit nearly twenty mil
lions from her mother, Mrs. Bramhal Gil
bert and her several Brokaw aunts and
uncles. few months ago Miss Gilbert's
engagement to Howard Price Renshaw was
announced. Mr. Renshaw Is an American
business man, a fine manly fellow -Four
weeks ago. Miss Gilbert, a friend of Miss
DrexePs broke her engagement to Mr.. Rem.
shaw and said she had been converted to
Miss Drexel's opinions about the American
marriage. Miss Gilbert Is to spend year
or two in England and on the continent, and
her friends say, that she will undoubtedly
live up to her new convictions by marry.
ing foreigner.
Upon no subject is there such diversity Of
opinion. We were called upon at the same
time to thrill with pride over the splendid
position achieved by Lady CurZon in Eng
land, and boil with indignation over the
scoundrelly treatment of his wife by Count
de Castellane.
One writer shows that foreign marriages
have made American women the most bril-
liant and influential persons in Europe. An.
other shows that they have mostly resulted
In unspeakable misery for the American
wives.
Does one brilliant marriage compensate for
the misery suffered by the American wife in
another case? Does the good time enjoyed by
the Countess of Granard, as wife of King
Georges Master of the Horse, make up for
the wrongs of the Countess de la Forest
Divonne, beaten and driven home without her
property?
Paul Bourget, the psychological novelist, Of
France, said that the American girl turned
towards a European husband because she had
received more culture than the American
man.
Mrs Emily Post, clever novelist and mem.
Der of New York society, has expressed a
more. up-todate view. She says that If the
American girl is dissatisfied with the Amer.
lean man 1t is because she is not sufficiently
educated He is worker noted for doing
things while she is too often an idler, without
sound education and serious aims in life.
Hence she falls easy victim to some worth
less nobleman whose social position In
Europe is nil"