Show MONARCHICAL DANGERS Americans all along have been accustomed accus-tomed to concratulate themselves upon the fact that in this country there are no dangers to fear from the baleful influences I of monarchical ideas Such may be the case hut the new American Minister to Italy Tudgo Stallo warns American parents pa-rents who go to t Europe against another danger This danger is that marriageable marriage-able daughters of Americans aio liable i to bo much sought after by Europeans i and that fond papas and ambitious mammas mam-mas as ue apt to lo e their daughters In a leeent interview t says the Hta California Cali-fornia Judge Stall expressed himself us follows Gentlemen who go abroad with I marriageable daughters iirn a great risk j I know dozen gentlemen in Ohio who have gone to Europe with marriageable i daughters who came home descried The men of Europe who seek in marriage the daughters of Americansas a rule maybe may-be termed adventurers Of course such is not always the case but too frequently 15 iR Europeans believe that all Americans Ameri-cans who travel are wealthy and that those who travel with marriageable i daughteiH are especially wealthy and I that if they can but succeed in capturing the hand of such daughters they will reap I a great monetary reward The Alta puts the case very much as it is i and rather mildly than otherwise Tho Minister to Rome knows the ways of tho European dudo He knows that this character of the day looks forward to a 1 marriage with an American heiress as naturally natur-ally as a beggarly German prince thinks that the purposes of Providence will not bo 1 fulfilled unless ho marries an English princess 1 prin-cess For a considerable class in Europe tho younger sons of English nobles French counts seedy German barons bandvlegged I Italians of doubtful pretensions soldiers of i fortune in all the armies of genteel poverty in fact the whole of that class of males j who are of good families with nothing else about them that is goodmarriage is a distinct 1 dis-tinct career and an American marriage is preferred I With such as these and a class not Ii quite so high socially marriage is looked to as the one event in their liven that is r to cause fortune to smile upon them To I such marriage is what the investment of the savings of many years of hard earned money is to him who stakes his all upon the purchase of stock in the mining market It is safe to say that there are tenjnatrimonial adventurers in Europe to one in America Lady Churchill has made an enviable reputation but such I cases are rare Will anyone believe for a moment that Prince Colonna married the daughter of Mr Mackay purely for love and cared nothing for her colossal fortune American girls who make European Euro-pean alliances as a rule make a grave j mistake |