Show 3 I dI 1 Lt r e tit it r i MANY 5TRIKING E XAMPLESIN f C T 1s t LeASTOF INTERNATIONAL WTCrtWHI F Ms BROU6TT HAPPINESS THAT YEARS 1AVDNOT t ALTERED + I Not nil our Bins wno marry titles are unhappy cu PAKIS hoar nf the shipwrecks f wnsted iiilllIoiiH and n lono girl drifting westward on n f hi i gilded craft but the mass r 1 HI I I of tlio contented doing vast good to I t I I America taut Europe pans unnoticed h IMI declares n writer In the Washington j U i l 1 EvenliiR Star i IJ AH to Franco I know theso girls aro II 1 I missionaries of tlio great American I idea I Some got love Homo till empty I hearts with worldly satisfactions and nil merit admiration Francos share i 1 or their 300000000 may havo healed old families but tho breezy push the I j bright Initiative Independence energy mill Judgment with which they Invigorate r s I t I Invigor-ate n sleepy aristocracy arc equaled 9 only by the splendid prestige they m 1 tj i have Given the United States abroad a J II I lf There are two ducnl families for r 117 example the Hochofoucaulds and f IJzes called respectively tho premier It3l Jf pre-mier dukes and premier barons of p UJ L p18 the old regime Is It n small thing t + n Jrf that Miss Shouts becomes the sinter I f Inlaw of one whllo Miss Mattlo Elizabeth p Eliza-beth Mltchel Is tho duchess of tho j II other lj1 jt One True Love Match J tf f I I Miss Mitchell may havo brought i IJtf j I the Duo do In llochefoucauld but 1 J tv 200000 Tho duc who In old days a I t would have been nearest royalty like 1 t3 tho Norfolk In England could have I Ii the Due do Dlno ho could make Mrs Frederic Livingston nee Sampson a real Almannch do Ootlia duchess Sho Is very happy too though separated from him nnd I never shall forgot tho frank American decision of character with which I once saw her jerk him from tho Monto Carlo trentootqtiar unto table saying You have blown enough of my mono cut III Two More Happy Marriages I Two Misses Singer of tho sowIng machine trade brought 2000000 apiece Into tho Almanach do Golha nnd never regretted It Isabel maided Iho great social high priest tho Due Docazoa who really caused tho death of poor old Haritoff two years ago llarltoff who formerly had his own racing stable and could point out In the Avenue of tho Bats three mansions man-sions ho presented to three ladles In his prime lived hard broke of Into years but everyone felt pitying and friendly to him At Monte Carlo Decnzes with n lively live-ly party on his yacht Invited Haritoff to dinner After coffee talking old I times with u mature lady of tho theater thea-ter poor Haritoff explained ho had u system to beat roulette With a 1000 franc note ho could attain to fortune Heros one said tho lady but as days passed after and she saw no more of Harltoff she sought him out and asked her money back Tho system sys-tem broke saId tho unhappy man the 1000 francs are gone please LLLLLLL aara TTTTTTTT rrrr 1 t 1 tI lliti r 1 tl 1l i t I s j q It t + A t r r Ir s I a 1 I l t4 42 p r n t I I i l 1 l Il l < 1i pa Duchese I i dc lo R2 kfoucnu let ana iSot t 1i married any heiress of his class In I stead ho chose Miss Mitchell with i her modest Ilotll true love match For trade ho Is captain of hussars 1 1t Ills private life Is most passed at 1 Montmlrall his seat where his lovely American duchess wields queenly Influence F In-fluence She Is tho friend of all girls 4q who want to marry their truo lovo 4 of tho country nobility rich farmers 0 JJ i daughters middleclass girls cursed with ambitious parents peasant girls r t discouraged by small cash tl a It w Sho has opened French eyes to a r American agricultural machinery Ir made known hygienic plumbing tho th chock system social mixing farmers al trolleys Indian corn bath tubs outdoor out-door life for girls nbovo tho peasant I class How can n high hoarted Oregon f t 1n girl become chief personage of several 1 rd sev-eral counties not spread tho Idea of t KO ahead and trust to your strong Y ± d nrmt ct r I a Sho taught the duke to tnko his I1 place Ho was easygoing lovable and S t nrmylocood for some years they held 1 I aloof from high Parisian society but t ° now they have a son aged three they q lr take their preponderating placo In the l p I 111 1 I sot of tho Dowager Duchess dUzes 1 pg i hunting tho red deer with dogs and + e horses and tho melancholy horn like 11 I s + i Francis do la Itocho his ancestor godfather t j god-father of Francis I and consulting 1 > b I with five other selgnleurs to change 1 tho director of tho Paris grand opera j > by moro force of social Influence r 1 I rt 1 Place for Duchesse de Chaulnes fL > t Miss J Shouts as Dnchcsso do i 1lltII1cN iias her iiiace lIke thIs wanIng t wan-Ing for her In tho Uzes set Much dp ponds on tho woman Tho emoluments are often worth the money Indeed 1 there are American girls who have so valued tho emoluments that they held q to them after they divorced tho man and no hard feelings Such is tho happy case of Miss Curtis w Cur-tis of Now York first wife of the present i 148ft tJ i pres-ent Due do Dlno The whole French 1 r aristocratic family mourned her when l a 4 she quit You are Btlll of us they I Insisted Sho still calls herself tho marqulso do TalleyrandPerlgord Her 1 1h noblo daughter married a Hainan HUB poll title princess of PiggloSmisa I her four sons aro bona lido Gothn nobility qr no-bility and sho has always been extremely 4 ex-tremely happy When her divorced husband found d ho could not live without an American 1 woman on tho promises his good old UUior kind of abdicated so that aa if err wait a tow days moro but tho Indlg nant lady told Docazes and DccazesJ ostentatiously kicked Harltoft In tho posterior before the groat public ofI tho atrium of tho Casino i Everyone called It a savage act Friends represented to Docazes It was T his fault to have left HaWtoff along 2 with anyone who had 1000 francs his V weakness and necessities wero known I Therefore tho duke kindly at heart J consented to meet Haritoff In n duel 2 whore no one was hurt but his old j J friend never recovered from tho disgrace f dis-grace and died a tow months after T Prlnco Pollgnac who married Win + naretta Singer and lu time left her n J happy widow with his noble fanjljy all I devoted to her Even their old mother J after Isaac Singer died wont Into tho I nobility by way of tho duko of Campo Sollce Them aro dukes and dukes In I tho old kingdoms of Naples and Sicily < three acres nnd a cow constituted a principality or dukedom American Girls In Demand All Is not one slded It has been observed ob-served that when French families get n tasto for our girls they go In for thorn qulto wholesale Thus Miss Hooper of Cincinnati was brought up In Paris where her mother entertained enter-tained so lavishly In one of tho 12 mansions around tho Arc do Trl o in phe Well Comto Horace do Cholsoul saw that his older brother the Due do CholsculPraslln was so happy with Miss Forbes of Now York for such a long tlmo that ho t > snniiar > cl n Miss Hooper Iloth theso CholseulPraslln wives are absolutely happy qulto assimilated as-similated to French life whllo keeping hold of all that Is best In their patrimony patri-mony of America and It Is known that their steady Influence Is part of that mysterious something that Is putting put-ting now push Into tho French aristocracy aristoc-racy The do CholsonlPraslltis for example have yet a third nice American Ameri-can girl among them Miss Coudert tho heiress of tho New York Inrts law flan also married Into It and yet moro Walt There Is Indeed a fourth 1 In tho days of the kings who gave those titles a king could have quickly decided whether tho Prlnco do Bears ct do Chalals Is a real do Cholsoul Praslln The courts of tho French re publiccould not Therefore to this day wo do not know If Miss Wlnans of Baltimore married Into this old family of tho minister of Louis XIV or not but It does n of prevent her from being glad she did it There Is no kick coming from tho Prlnccsse de Beam et do Chalals Romance of Caroline Fraser All but two of the American women I havo mentioned are tho happy mothers of young nobles of proud lineage Could you find a moro romantic roman-tic case than that of Caroline Frascr and her Issuo When the princely Murnts history makers took refugo In Hordontown N J 1 Caroline was governess In the family Iho heir married heralld stuck tight to ho always She Is dead several years since lint her children keeping her blue eyes and cornyellow hair have married everywhere Tho most romantic of those Amerl can motihered Murat men espoused tho utterly romantic Circassian Princess Dalcn Kophlta by name lovely beyond words daughter and Role heir of tho sovereign house of Mlngrolla which land you can hunt In southern Hussla Ho Is there n king today tho boy from Hordentown Of all the French counts none stand higher In history or society than the Chamhruns When Louis XV erected all HIUHO mnrqnlHatcs n Comte de Oliambrun got one of tho first and the Chaiiibruns always have had sense They kept much of their land through tho revolution they had shifted n good lot of liquid cash ot England and at tho restoration they wore among tho drat to get n whaok at the 132 000000 voted as compensation to tho martylcd nobility Chambruns Good Sense To I prove that horso sonso has not loft the family tho Marquis do Chnm brim snapped 1 up an American girl of tho ltives Nichols family of Virginia when he was attache nt Washington Good It worked Tho family liked tho Innovation Go ahead they said to tho Comto do Chnnibrun when he was old enough to marry find another an-other hike her What ho found was Miss Ltnigworth Alice Roosevelts sis terinlaw Tho Chambruns are playing ft most prominent part In tho great effort to Improve the social situation of tho French working classes At home In their three chattoaux they are patrl urchal mastery of land as far as the oyo can see Thero aro no wretched poor In theIr villages Their farmers aro tho proud and prosperous masters of blood stock newest agricultural machinery silos distilleries grain mills canning faotorlos and what duI du-I know The American girls who Scamo to tho Chambruns showed the sway to tho men who profited Intolll gently and thankfully No Chambrun has wasted a dollar of American money Founder of Musee Soclale In Paris tho head of tho family who divided his time between tho J + 1J + + Louis do Ia Grange and the Compile Comp-ile Jean do Kergorlay i They were the daughters of Gov Carroll of Mary and descendants of Charles Can oil of Carrollton They were six children Inheriting 20000000 Shall I I tell you of the Marquise de Ilretoull who was Miss l Garner of St Iouls7 Suppose that she did brine tho marquis lt000000 Wo can afford IL Do you want the money One of her I sisters married Cumto Leon von Moltke who represents Denmark in Paris and his brother seeing It was good and fair espoused Miss Hona rarto Baltimore The other sister Edith Garner married Gordon Cum nilngs made the present king of Eng i lands scapegoat In the baccarat affair I of years ago The Mnrquls Do Mores never had a good hour when not with his wife Miss von Hoffman of New York James Gordon Bennetts niece Rita Hell notoriously no-toriously made a man of Count Paul dAramon himself already half an American as his mother had been aMiss a-Miss Fisher 1 They lead n patriarchal life The lady never lost a dollar of her money And so on America is rich l enough to let her daughters marry where they I will England spends billions to buildup build-up her prestige with a lot of Ironclads menofwar cruisers and llneofhnttlo ships If we Americans prefer to make n smarter lovelier kind of reputation repu-tation for our land and folk why let our girls come and show Europe how to live They do It Whoop I i r r < 1 I om esse de hambhun magnificent chateau of 1Empery Car rlores and the Museo Soclale was a great personage In several lights lie died a Cow years since Socially u Paris leader ho found time to himself to make tho Musee Soclalo where many American students have been welcomed to learn everything done In France In tho lino of university settlements settle-ments model houses puro milk and all that sort of thing Tho funds of tho Museo Soclale In part American girls money = havo permitted per-mitted several French sociologists to visit tho United Statos to study what wo do In the same lines Its director Leopold Mablllenu appointed by Do Chambrun gave one of tho French lecture courses at Harvard 1 could thus go on for pages For each American girl who has wasted love and fortune to undignified European Euro-pean litle buying I can name you 15 others who In Franco at least havo nuulo lovo matches reasonable bargains bar-gains settlements In life continuing happily and usefully Why belittle our girls who como hero and marry making tho name of American a thing to ho proud of by their fortunes by their adaptability Became French Social Leader Shall I speak of tho Marqulso do Canny who was a Miss Ilidgpway of Philadelphia Sho Is now a grandmother grand-mother with children and grandchll dren mnrrled Into great French Cam tiles a portentous awful social leader lead-er Or shall I mention tho Baronetto |