Salt Lake Telegram | 1903-05-06 | Page 4 | English Title and American Girls

. "As yott raakfr your bed sa shall you lie upon it." ThU -was the signiSeajit statement made to the Countess of Yarmouth, then Miss Alice Thaw, on the day of her wedding to the .Earl, The speaker, if J31 safvl, was Benjamin Thaw, oldest son of the late William Thaw, by his first wife, head Of the Thaw family, and half-brother of the present Count-' esv It was-the dosing scene ef ft stormy interview which had taken, place in- the boudoir of MIsai Thaw on the day of the wedding- As ia now generally kndWnV iJenJamin Thaw did not attend the wedding of kis half-sister, nor did any member of his family, fam-ily, ia spite of the fact that he is the head of the family and the guardian of the Countess. " Yar-mouth Yar-mouth i a spendthrift and. a rake. "He came to America on a8 wife-hunting tour. First he proposed t Mildred Thaw, a wealthy cousin of AJJce Thaw. This level-headed young woman cut short me Earl's love-making; Then the- fortune-hunter turned his : attention to the girl he has just married. Like the Duke of Manchester, Yarmouth is not in theB graces of the best element of English society. But even with 'tis reputation for general worthlessness this poverty-stricken Earl was clever enough to dazzle and win one of this country's most beautiful young heiresses. From the time that the engagement was announced Benjamin Thaw, as well as his brother Edward of New York, wa3 bitterly opposed to the marriage. Mrs. "William Thaw, too, opposed it, but when she discovered that her strongminded daughter daugh-ter bad set her heart upon the alliance, she accepted accept-ed the inevitable with the bestrace possible. But Benjamin Thaw refused to accept the Earl as his brother In-law. Every one of the entreaties he had made to his sister had proven futile. Alice-was hi favorite, and he did everything in his power to prevent pre-vent the alliance which he fears will prove an unhappy un-happy one. Even as late a the day of the marriage, and while Mis Thaw wai donning her wedding gown, he went to her apartments at Lyndhurst to make one last appeal to her. He entreated her to reconsider, and to declare the wedding Off. But Miss Thaw refused to listen.- She declared that she loved the Earl better than any one else, or anything any-thing in the world, and that she would marry him in spite of all opposition. It was then that Benjamin Benja-min Thaw is said to have expressed himself thus: "As you make your bed so shall yoo lie upon it. You are leaving Lyndhurst today, Alice, against our wishes. It has always been your home, but after yon leave, it will be forever. You shall never return re-turn t make Lyndhurst your home. You have ac- . cepted an Englishman as your husband, and England Eng-land must be your home of the future. We shall welcome you as a guest, but Lyndhurst can never be your home again,' . Every true American's heart will beat ia sympathy with Benjamin Thaw. His part in this unfortunate affair has been that of the genuine American brother. Some day our rich young women will realize what easy prey they are for these profligate noblemen and then titles will be drag on. the American matrimonial market. f