Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-10-16

points from which these international marriages
are to be regarded One cannot indict all these
American women who marry foreign titles any
more than one can indict whole nation For it
is evident that some real love matches. Not
always does fortune go with the bride Social
position has been the hearts desire Of women,
erywhere and always, and marrying the right kind
of title abroad is short cut to it. Besides, young
women are often 'in love with love-" the phios-
ophers agree. So the myth Of the splendid Euro
pean lover appeals to them, rather than the
"gOod American husband"
On the other hand there are international mar
riages where it looks to the average American as
If the holder of the title were after money en-
tirely and as if the American women did not get
their moneys worth. Anyway 1t is a one-sided
bargain. We get nothing in return for fortune
and citizen There is, to be sure an occasional
exception by way of emphasis. We did not lose
a citizen-and may have gained one-when Miss
Corneia Vanderbilt, only child of the late George
w. Vanderbilt recently married Hon. John Francis
Amherst Cecil third of Lord William Cecil
Her fathers will provided that in order to inherit
his estate at Biltmore, N. c.. size must always
maintain her residence in the United Statefs Mr.
Cecil resigned from the British diplomatic service
and is assisting in the management of the estate
one of the show places of the country.
Up to the time of the World war international
marriages were on the increase An incomplete
list of the more noteworthy in a 1914 almanac to-
in their day. The aftermath of others still finds
its way to the first page of the newspapers-for
example, the marriage of Anna Gould to Count
Bon de Castellane and later to the Duke de Tai
leyrand-P erigord Prince de Sagan, and that of
Mary Victoria Letter of Chicago to Lord Curzon,
now earl Of Kedleston.
During the war the business international mar
riages fell off, After the war came the influx Of
French brides with their soldier husbands-not
many fortunes there, one imagines.
Now the business is booming again. They do
say that the 40 presentations at the Court of ST.
James this year through the American embassy
would have been 900 had all the applications by
American women been granted. Anyway, 1924 has
already broken all records with it's long list of in
ternational marriages.
Gossips of two continents are still talking about
the first international marriage Of 1924that of
Mary Millicent Rogers of New York. twenty,
granddaughter of the late FL. H. Rogers of Stand
ard Oil fame and heiress to something like $780,
0O000Q-well protected In January she married
Count Ludwig Salm Hoogstraten, about forty,
of Austrian noble house. The count and his
bride were married in the municipal building, New
York. and took her parents, Col. and Mrs. Henry
III. Rogers, entirely by surprise They went to
Paris. In April her father went to Europe and
returned with the countess. The count did not
come, he had pressing tennis engagements in
Berlin and Vienna. The gossps intimate that her
father arranged matters that the count may
be able to devote all of his time to tennis abroad
An example of an International marriage which
apparently affords little ground for carpng is that
of Prince Viggo of Denmark and Miss Eleanor
Margaret Green Of New York last June The
bride is a granddaughter of Abram S. Hewitt,
mayor of New York, and great-granddaugh-
ter of Peter Cooper, the philanthropist Her Off
cial title is Her Royal Highness Princess Eleanor
of Denmark countess of Rosenberg. There is no
great amount of money on either side. 1t is stated
that Prince Viggo was Obliged to waive all rights
of succession to the Danish throne of King Chris
tian x both for himself and his heirs.
When Mrs. Jacob Wendell of New York (and
Hertfordshire, England) recently announced the
engagement of her second daughter Philippa, to
Randolph Algernon Ronald Stewart, twelfth earl
of Galloway another glimpse given of the
realm Of pure romance, where American dollars