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Show e RELIGIOUS COXVERSIOX AM) .MAKiri.UJE. One of tho most conspicuous crazes among wealthy American young women of late has been the insane desire fur matrimonial alliance al-liance with Knglhh lords and French or Italian Counts. In cies where the wish has been gratified, all that tho deluded creatures mar. rfod was an empty title, there belt'g scarcely the semblance of au apology for a man behind it. Auy aristocrat who would ally ulnieft nuuhiaa displaying so little judgment must either be anooilsora knave, or a mixture of both; consequently the pair Is necessarily devoid of enou ;h sen: for oueordluary psrsin. The results of such alliance-. disappointment disappoint-ment and misery are inevitable. The tnsrryl.rg by wealthy young women of aristocratic dudos. on account ac-count ol their titular appendsges has been rivalled by an ojnosile extreme of Insanity in thenme line the wedding by misguided young ladles of the ohuise-mlndc-l un derllngs who drive their" fathcrV coaches. After the first blush or novelty coaies the stern reality, consisting of the fact thata sprigh'-lypleceof sprigh'-lypleceof feminine foyli-linc'sh. Joined her fortune, or rather misfortunes, mis-fortunes, with a chunk of human stupidity, with no propect of a romantic ending In which a form erly exasperated father relents and, with tears streaming down his venerable, ven-erable, chaikmirkcd face, exclainH, '"bless you, my c'lild.en:" wh'le thecu'taingo j town as all parties Join ban Js and the audience it-lire to their hoavs w!l satisfied with theperfinuiaev. Thetwosprcicsof cxcsntricily, II-Kistialivc II-Kistialivc inst-.rcts efnhloh have been s- often furnWu J hrttietiu"-licjouma's, hrttietiu"-licjouma's, w." probablyiia have to lake a rear situation in the Hies oa the sta-e of Amerlctu social pxuliarki '. Now, it' Is ths male man that Lriugs; himself befote tbe iotil.ir gae in matters matrioionial. The racial Seotllo crank is njwg-ilniog notoriety by Iwoomlug a dw vjloo of Uie Morale law iu order ta mirry a Jewrw. Of course, when suchan incident ocourt thete have been ftsveralof them lately it Is always a case of 'Sincere religious conviction." convic-tion." ThI claim i (ireally strenstfaeiisJ by the ftct that tho converted Gentile is about to marry a Hebrew laJy. T.iefel-lowla T.iefel-lowla doubtleji convinced ISat he wants the baud nf the la-iy, htnce ho Is willing to rpetrle a j.!ece of consummate hypocrisy wattaln this object. The latest Instance of a fellow being be-ing thus suddenly selie-l with a Cu-i-vRHion of the correctness of the Jewish religion is that or a Chicago lawyer named Hunt. He has been admitted to the Hebrew congrea-tion, congrea-tion, with due ceremony, aud given the name of Isaac Oslenhelmer. Ag-xid many instances of religious conversion for mitrimontai purpjees have come under our observation. Men have occasionally been lop-Uzed lop-Uzed into the Church of Jesus Christ of Iiatter-day Saints a'ter having formed the acquaintance of "Jlormon" giris, In order to wed them, bicaue the young ladies declined to asecpt their alvances otherwise. As a rule such alliances turn out badly, the reasons being obvious. The public journals have furnUhed evidences of ill-treatment and do. serilon. One late Instance o.-curs to us as we write. A fellow married a young woaiin In Southern Utah, and deserted her and her young child. He came to this city and ' wrote letters for the purpose of con-1 veylng the Idea that he had com-mittetf com-mittetf suicide, while the miscreant had no such Intention, this coarse being taken solely for the purpose o! ! covering his tracks. A peuon who outwardly accepts of a religion, whllo there is an uu-mistakablo uu-mistakablo ulterior motive for his action, Is not, as a rule, to ba trusteil. Consequently a man who "becomes a Jew to enable him to niury a j Jewess, a "Mormon" to marry a "Mormon," or a Catholic to marry a Catholic, does not have our unqualified un-qualified confidence or conildera-tion. |
