Show BOTH gOTH WERE FOOLED There is a story from London to the effect that a wealthy American widow became becam engaged to tp t a bankrupt b n ruPt peer ie r Ot f the realm of Great Britain and that the latter threw her overboard for anatie a native natie of or the tight little isle who was generally supposed to have greater wealth No sympathy will be wasted on the rich widow from this country who tried to trade her dollars for a title and was willing to throw herself in for good measure neasure It was a arrangement all the way through The peer was in involved involved with a moneylender who pro proposed proposed proposed posed that his lordship extricate him himself himself himself self from his uncomfortable position by marrying an American heiress Agreed ed to In consideration of or a commission based on the ladys a s fortune the peer was introduced and aDd the match was quickly arranged Then the matri matrimonial matrimonial agent learned of ofa a amore more eligible heiress h who was not an American who offered d him a larger commission for gaining her a title The peer broke oft off the match with the American woman and grabbed the latest and highest bidder After Arter the marriage ceremony he discovered that hS his income was really her capital and that he had lost money by his hi fickleness and arid mourned his sad fate tate I have given my name and coronet he wailed to his friends to a wIfe iCe whom I did not want and who has haH scarcely enough to support me He grasped at the shadow and lost the substance as it were and no sym sm sympathy sympathy pathy will be wasted on him either There are other titles for sale in the theold theold theold old world Plenty of ot peers 1 like the hero of this story and De and Castellanes without number er It Is Is probably also true that there ther are many wealthy wealth women in the United States who are willing anxious in fact to give their all for a glittering bauble So runs the world away |