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Show Learning Too Late. "We hear much about the folly of American girls of wealth marrying titled ti-tled foreigners. Undoubtedly the greater great-er number who have entered into such marriages have lived to bitterly regret it. There are a few exceptions, but the general rule is that the European duke or lord seeking an alliance with American wealth is a good person to keep away from. But we do not think that the case is any better wkith those who marry the young scions of American wealth. The family troubles of some member of the Gould or the Vanderbilt families are aired in the courts every three months. There was Howard Gould and his actress ac-tress wife; then his brother, Frank Gould, got a divorce from his wife, nee Miss Kelly, who gave up her religion reli-gion to marry him. Now comes the marital mar-ital troubles of a young Vanderbilt, who married a Catholic. Virginia Fair. She did not give up her religion to get a rich husband, but she sacrificed her life's happiness. When the conduct of the young scapegra.ee became so notorious noto-rious that she could no longer live with him, she applied for a legal separation separa-tion with separate maintenance. He wanted an absolute divorce and he gave her every legal cause in the catalogue for peeking one. We are glad that she had spirit enough to refuse to set him free. She, as. a Catholic, was bound for life by the marriage, no matter what the courts might say. She did well to insist that he should be bound as well, as he was the culpable party. She would have done better to have considered all this before marriage. She was entering a contract that was onesided one-sided as far as obligations went. She was a Catholic girl who gave her whole life to the man she married. He was a roue who had no religion and never regarded marriage seriously. Tet there are many others just as foolish as Virginia Vir-ginia Fair. They rush into mixed marriages mar-riages without considering the probable outcome. And it is generally useless to warn them of the dangers ahead. They will learn only by bitter experience. experi-ence. A shattered life is their lesson; when they learn It is then too late to profit by the lesson. |