New Britain herald., 1923-07-06
PENNILESS MOBILES
NOW OUT OF LUCK.
American Women Are Growing
Wary Of Barons Without Money
BY The Associated PreEs.

by IHb AbsOtiutcu 'SSS.
Berlin, July 6. - international
match makers, the men and womef
who used to do thriving business
marrying off titles and high social po
sition to wealthy plebians have beer
hard hit by the war and the resultan'
financial distress. Marriage among
humber folks all over Europe has. in
creased under the distress, but not sc
with the leaders of fashion.
June, the month of weddings, has
not produced the large number OF So
| ciety weddings which always charac-
terized the month in pre-War days
This Is especially noticeable IN central
Europe. Fashionable churches, hotels,
cafes, dressmaking shops, JeWelry
shops and flower shops do not show
the old-tlme June activity.
Tourists Don't Visit Central Europe.
Foreign tourists are. not visiting
central Europe in large numbers, ana
the residents of central Europe are
not travelling abroad. The romances
which used to begin on ocean trips
are fewer and fewer. American ana
English women with comfortable Tor
tunes are not wandering about as
they did in old times Travel is not
SO inviting as it used to be, and fam
lilies from the lands of good exchange
apparently have little desire to eX-
pose their daughters to the sort OF
tragedies which have grown out OF
many International marriages recent
ly.. Titles which carry with them
bankrupt estates are apparently at
great discount. The ncertainty of
titles to baronial possessions makes
ambitious mothers hesitate. They
lave seen too many penniless princes
and counts and barons rafting about
Paris and other European capitals,
trying to market their family tree.
But the professional matchmakers
have not given up hope and are still
active Vienna has a number OF such
matrimonial agents who are hard at
work, and with the revival of Vienna
which has come about as the result of
foreign assistance, their opportunities
are improving. Vienna's old gaiety is
coming back. Its fashions attract for
eign women, and music lovers flock to
its opera. Tourists who visit Italy also
go to Austria in large numbers.
Commercial Matchmakers Have Hard
Time.
In Berlin commercial matchmakers
are having a harder time. The de-
cline in travel and upset political
work against them to a
greater degree than in any of the 9TH
err European capitals, and the failure
of war hatreds to pass away makes
it difficult to do anything with prin-
cipals who were enemies in the great
struggle.
One professional marriage agent, a
titled woman who was once a great |
success in her profession, is constant
ly seen about the prominent hotels in |
Berlin, and she has not lost her abil-
ity to meet nearly all promising wish
tors. But she has collected COM
mission only once in the last twelve |
The agencies which advertise extern
sively and arrange marriages on a |
strictly business basis, without social
trimmings. are faring far better than
he agents who specialize in aristo-
Gratis. Throughout central Europe the
1aily papers are filled with the adyer-
,isements of marriage agencies which
describe their clients in great detail,
give their financial status and require
nents, leaving only the names unmen-
Toned.