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Show COURTESY. An article in the current issue of the Atlantic Monthly serves to throw some new light on the subject of rich American girls marrying titled if somewhat poverty-stricken foreigners. The writer is frank in blaming the American men for the condition, con-dition, recognizing the condition as not altogether American. The American man, however, is able to stand the blame, if any is to be attached, and can thank his lucky stars that he has escaped a lifelong life-long attachment to one who prefers the blue blood of aristocracy to the red blood of free America. The writer of the article in question says that the mothers of the much-sought heiresses, as well as the heiresses, are fascinated by the wonderful politeness of his lordship, and that the men of America are to blame for not putting up a nicer I appearance and a better brand of manners in their social engagements. The devoted attention of the foreigner is fascinating and captivating to the fair sex, and they fall easy victims to the "charmimr personality" of 'the distinguished gentlemen who have been raised in an atmosphere where it is more important to live up to their station in life than it is to earn an honest living. Comparison between one of these scions of the royal families of Europe and the sturdy manhood of America is naturally favorable to the foreigner, if nothing more important is considered than a knowledge of what to do and say under certain prescribed conditions. The American has probahjy been pretty busy during most of his life with affairs af-fairs about which the titled nobleman never heard, and it would be most natural should he become a little rusty, in the amenities of polite society. But the lack of artificiality detracts nothing from his sterling manhood, and his natural aversion to being be-ing supported from the bounties of his father-in-law would naturally tend to make him rude where the desire to secure such support upon the part of the nobleman would, naturally make him polite to the point of obsequiousness a studied politeness ' before which the unsophisticated maids and matrons mat-rons naturally fall. |