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Show a good-looking, mild-tempered bride of lovable disposition, dis-position, age 23. The baronet's dowry would be ?23,000 cash down on the wedding day. On his part Sir Gordon if acgregor agreed to pay the woman agent f 15,000 as commission. Out of this the agent's woman friend, who also bears a title, was to receive the sum of f 10,000 for finding the baronet a wife. Unhappily for the success of the scheme the American Ameri-can woman resolutely refused to accept anything less than a Duke for her money. Both woman, agents are well known in London society. The agreement between this clever couple, who always work together, is that one shall find eligible men, while the other looks out for gullible women with more money than brains. "It is true I am going to be married, but not through the agency, owing to their friend wanting a Duke," said Sir Gordon. "The lady, who, I hope, will shortly become Lady Macgre-gor, Macgre-gor, is a daughter of a naval Captain, who took pity on my misfortunes and wrote to me on the subject of marriage before I met the agents. She is not wealthy, but has enough money for us to live quietly and happily in the country for the rest of our lives." It is hard to believe an American woman would enter en-ter into such an arrangement as this. ' The very thought of a wealthy, refined American woman desiring de-siring to wed a penniless old noble, an inmate of a prison, is disgusting. Women who are victims of this craze for titles are abnormal, grotesque. They are fit candidates for strait-jacket jobs in insane asylums. They disgrace American womanhood. - Ovtr Title-Chasers Are Abnormal. : Dr Lorenz, who seems to be a mighty level-;. level-;. beaded old chap, recently declared that American " women were the most sensible members of the fair - " eex it had been his good fortune to meet. While 'Americans will heartily indorse the great Vienna '4 surgeon's sentiment we must admit that some of our women are rapidly bringing American womanhood into disrepute by their pursuit of titled husbands. This craze for marriageble nobles has reached the ; point where it has made traffic in this line extremely profitable. The approaching marriage of Sir Gordon Gor-don Macgregor, late of the West Hall workhouse, in London, to a wealthy woman, has brought to light an extraordinary matrimonial agency of this kind. No sooner ha1 the fact transpired that a real, live baronet was living within the walls of the London workhouse than the promoters of this agency placed themselves in communication with him. After pre- ; liminary correspondence an interview was arranged. The energetic woman at the head Of the firm" paid a visit to Sir Gordon with the view of arranging a deal satisfactory to both parties. She informed the baronet that a friend of hers had a wealthy Ameri- cart client on her books who would pay $125,000 for , the privilege of marrying a titled Englishman. After further correspondence an agreement was prepared . by a well-known firm of solicitors. It was duly - ; signed and stamped. It contained an undertaking oa the, part of th agent to provide a-baronet with |