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Show Thc:3 Fcclhh Ansricr. 'Dowtcn.0 Anotner "American Countess" has come to grief. She was a St Louis girl and her blue-blooded husband hus-band squandered her wealth In riotous living, in jwhich dissipation of American : dollars numerous chorns girls shared. Of course it ended in the divorce di-vorce court. " r In granting the divorce the Judge said that there should be little sympathy for American girls who have to-l- divorced from foreign noblemen, and that this case was the history of the court records of nearly all such marriages.. He said that the evidence evi-dence was not conclusive, but, in view of the manner man-ner in whicTi the Count dissipated the Countess'-xnoney Countess'-xnoney and property, he would grant the divorce. It was testified that after the separation the Count wrote to the Countess, consenting that she might keep the children, as he had the money, which the -Judge said was the usual unfortnnate case where ambitious American mothers sought to marry their cultivated daughters to foreign nobles. Continuing, he said: "With so many instances of domestic infelicity detailed in the divorce courts by such marriages, where the foreigner is willing to walk off, with the dowry, it seems to me that moth-- moth-- era should learn a lesson and not allow themselves to be so easily entrapped' - And really they should. Foolish mothers who want their daughters to "shine" in Europe deserve the lecture. But will they heed it, as long as there is a Duke or a" Count in sight and the wherewithal to purchase them? I |