Show S rl r r I It A r t i 1 r r ro Y YI I o f Congress ress Urged to Lay Heavy A I on the Fortunes o oh J I II II II I I I h ati a U Ut t ilZ Z 1 II I ca Women Who n il II I I Tens and Go I I II II I r i Abroad to Live Wi 1 a t tz z S er 4 yi i tl L Le e y aT f ft t q y y v y a tn t tr r a sufis f fN N fn g wr la t 4 yr r Jae Jaep p r x 1 ly y SY 7 kr 6 k r f S1 S 1 f s sr sire r ire p j s t 7 er iw f t r w r w wr r y lb y v f r t y d r b u ls i tl X f r Jw 5 a r e k iSh S ii k ky i c s 1 V a t a a tie iErY ti e eK e per tx aE f K r t S 1 d Wyk ZY r t Y Al ltd l 3 w j i L r a 7 st CAy t t te e h t s y I I Prince Murat sail and hie hi Amer born 44 tf I I ica wife whose fortune large as it itI itis r I I is cannot save Ave him from endless and very financial difficulties a M Mg k g o 5 a r ls x rr r a 1 I I THINK the time has come when I I the Congress of the tl-e United States ought to put Its stamp of disapproval upon the traffic of Ameri Ameri- American American American can girls for foreign worthless titles titles baubles that they are and are and do some some- something something something thing to diminish the number of our American women who sell Bell themselves for titles and are arc taken abroad and mis mla mistreated mistreated t treated year after year and have their fortunes spent and dissipated and then have to see seek the foreign divorce court for relief I imagine that If it you make every rich man in the United States payout pay out of his hia estate an amount equal to the marriage settlement and then you take takeaway takeaway takeaway away from his bis estate when he dies 75 per cent of what ho he has left there wIll not be so many foreign fortune s hunters coming over the seas to seek American women omen to take over there thero to abuse and mIsuse and to squander their fortunes Some one has asked If it I think forone for forone forone one minute that the Congress of the United States could stop the course of true love It isan is an insult to true lose 10 loseto loveto to mention it in this connection I think some of these titled mar mar- marriages that have been contracted abroad are an insult to America The idea of I these foreigners selling articles to the newspapers on How I 1 Captured an American Heiress The very sery minute that some tome Ameri Amen American can families become wealthy many of them are immediately duped by all of the foreign broken down marriage marriage- seeking marriage seeking inebriate fortune hunters of the theis thew is orld Are you interested in 10 some orne ome young oung girl arid our American girls are the finest in the world are world are you vou ou Interested in ha having hating mg one of our year old v old ear ear girls marry some foreign make mke he e of a man sixty five years ears old because he has some kind of a worthless title 1 T I am not in favor of it We can put our ban of disapproval al upon such practice by taxing it out of existence These were the tho arguments ads ad in tho the House of Representatives In Washington the other day in support ot of legislation which would prevent foreigners foreign foreIgn- foreIgners foreigners ers walking away with so BO many of our heiresses and their millions According to the law proposed by b Representative Blanton the estate left by any American would bo be required to band over to the tho government 99 per percent percent cent of any marriage settlement paId during the citizens citizen's lifetime to any an foreigner contracting marriage with an AmerIcan woman The estate would also be taxed 7 75 per cent of ot the tho net amount to be bt transferred to legatees living with foreign husbands abroad In other words If it an American nul- nul daughter married a foreIgner and her husband received a marriage settlement of her fathers father's estate would have pave to pay the govern govern- government government ment on his death Also If it the Ui daughter was us living I abroad with Ith a foreign husband and add her father bequeathed to her a fortune of she would get only The balance would be grabbed by the United States Stales tax collectors t If such a law as this ele put on the statute books bools the fortune Minting Euro Euro- European Kuro nobleman would be sure of very little more than the marriage settlement he was able to wheedle out of a young oung womans woman's parents On 01 their death the gO would claim 99 pel pet cent of what hat he Od lecel in the way ofa of a mal mal- nage mai-nage settlement and also 75 per cent of any legacy his wife might later resets recel e Congress refused to accept Representative e- e Blantons Blanton's Blantons Blanton's amendment to the revenue evenue I bill that aimed to tax tar ta foreIgn fortune hunters out of existence but enough support was gl glen given en it to lead to the belief that perhaps the same plan planor or some similar one may be made a law at some somo future session Representative Blantons Blanton's proposal was evidently inspired very tery largely b by the spectacle furnished by the marriage of Count Salm and the Rogers heiress It seems quite possible that it would ha hase hae e recessed ed still stronger support if its con con- consideration con could have been delayed until after receipt of ot the tho latest news from Paris Recent cable caLle say eay that Count Salm Saim disappointed ir it finding him lum- himself him himself self denied access to th the fortune that will some day Le hs h s I as been educed i to the extremity of asking pay pty for tor bringing ing his bride to certain certain tain cafes and having basing her dance s ith him a certain cel tam number of of times tames every night The Tho cafes to the Count is s spid ld to have hate hs e suggested this hIs cold blooded e ex- ex exploitation c of the American heiress are among the most notorious in Paris Pans Yet the proprietors of all but one of them rail had a the decency decency to to entertain such a proposition and to show the door withborne with sonic borne lon to the man who made it proposition This one accepted the Counts Count's tion and IS 13 said to ha tease have e agreed to pay him a week for his appearance with his wife on the dancing floor for fora a certain number of hours every night The welcome Count Salm's family was to ha have base e given his bride to the ancestral home has failed to materialize NeIther has haa the Count bho shorn any disposition to resume activities in to the furtherance of little Prince Karls Karl's royal ambitions which hip his friends thought tight might lead to his hie winning a duchess's title for the former Millicent Rogers According to every report from Parts Paris their for money males makes the Count and Countess Salm Saim an anything thing but buta a blissful b pair of honeymooners Her pocket money is long since and his financial I resources never ample l enough nough to support even On himself elf in qUite the st style style Ie he desires are strained to thet the t h r r of c 2 4 m y i Ii r 1 i r 1 t af Tt S fita fi r r f j tT v J aJr d l I rya Z t Sri J- J r 1 rf r rl il u t IJ t c b l ny LIi ii YIt 3 Th Duchess of r rys ys kr krs s ish e ess Y h an c a Geer s y rl r S1 d ka ij is r rt t r is i ample of the ex fa it often t i F Mfr r r rM rMa a ty h Kr J w r rp rr ro rV p roves an r o 7 ri i j f r American hei V Nl a ter z 1 a za 4 00 t k o a 7 y ess to marry a ld d e herd up nobleman foreign and andt a t t Q E j c tea awe f f I ir i on the right the for f y 4 a a b ts g t erT 1 1 i r 3 r tr Gladys Vanden i t r t i r I 1 yi t x s bil tr now the wife of r r lri f x y r r a w Count 3 u fr k rs t v g 4 Q V 1 St r limIt to provide food and r JI tt 1 n lodging and clothing for two t w sue oP rj jy ro ti YV p 51 II And still the former r r t 4 lye lyea a Millicent Rogers Rogers's s parents a ap p r rr rt ia f fw w pi show no inclination to hay f 1 i forgive her precipitate A w l A j f t r marriage and loosen the r Maidstone whose t J purse purse strings of the for for- for fortune r marriage the millions of Jh a tune that is held in trust Americas America's Drexel family with one of Eng England's Jj hr ii tee ii for hei hll tr lands land's oldest and most distinguished titled Perhaps the situation houses I J t will have a happier out out out- On the tl right Representative Blanton of t l st d conic come than possible Texas who introduced in Congress the f f but the resent indica bill to take from heiresses who 7 lions are B that l df A f w wt e marry foreigners mote mole than three three- t this IS going B rd ri quarters of their wealth t v e y 4 I 3 t r pious x an- an antar H w tar a On the left one of theother the theA t J other of fn tho these l e A latest American beauties r distressingly d t 4 W h r K to marry y into 1 the British J unhappy m in- in V nobility Lady nobility Lady Hennessy t e BB r n arsenal Bi A p 1 Eden T-l T daughter l- l li i of r Mr mat m a t c h he e s 8 and Arthur l j t flany till think n I gart of Cincinnati Cincinnati- it IS as dl di t e x xi i fl n 44 n appointing tf h the theS y to fo o which the Count I as t ya yas s pr p l tend readiness mrs of s of It must Le be bep Lehu FP Sir g f 0 our u r hum h u m hinting p fM t tf toto ran girl girly s to tobe to Ills his bride y 1 0 be dazzled b i t hz bythe by y t that that hat he hethe heA A 4 the glitter of ofa could Or ne n a tIt title I c has have havo con consid considered led is that ered Bred many many- many 5 man y- y of the Duke ing mg ho he had Iad known n that he ha would privilege be denied the l ly lege of dipping his hands hand pi prompt om pt ly Iy into the Rogers millions Of course not all foreigners who ho come com here seeking who wives whoa are mercenary for for- fortune fortune fortune tune hunters and Representative Blan Blan- Blanton Blanton ton feels that those who ho are actuated wholly by motives mouses es of love will not let leithe the fact that the government is going to claim 99 per cent of an heiress's marriage settlement and three three quarters of her entire legacy swerve them from their romantic purpose But it Is la believed that the number of international marriages would show a remarkable decrease e If it we had a II law like that which the Congressman from as Texas Teas propose proposed One of the many unfortunate matches t and Duchess of Manchester She was Helen Zimmerman of Cin- Cin CincinnatI Cincinnati Cin Cincinnati and her father tho the im mI immensely wealthy railroad magnate did e he ho could to prevent her er hand handing ing over o her hor heart and fortune to this spendthrift Englishman Mibs MI S howe however er was one of the girls who ho are sure of ot their ability to manage their 0 own n affairs In spite and she of her father fathers father's pleas picas arguments went right ahead with what she believed to be bo an idyllic love match but which she has II lived ved to see was as noth nothing of the tho kind Imd If It she ehe had not long ago shut do don doon n on the Dukes Duke's incessant demands for more and mOl more e money none there soon would hive hwe been nothing left for or herself and her children roe For several years paTS ears now it 1 t wt they hII ha h a II v e lived x lived apart 1 The he and losing C Duke IS is t of money tend l every now and then he gets arrested BS ns he da did in Montreal only a II few seeks ago foi trying to Jump a board bill 1111 Prince Murat is another nobleman with such eJ extravagant trl tables and and so n m debts that C even Cen en tIe the great fortune fortuno of an American heiress cannot set on his financial feet He Hp marrIed Helen Stallo St and she is having to dig deeply into her millions to extricate eJ hIm from the serious troubles in which he heis is 13 continually imoh involved Invoked ed But it must be admitted that the Princess remains very devoted to hun him and apparently as happy as if he ho knew how to do something besides squander her mone money If the thO ho distinguished d Duke of Marl Mar Marlborough Marlborough borough was as not fortune hunting when hen henhe he came wooing Consuelo VanderbIlt he certainly looked d out for his own n- n n- n n terest better than mere lovers usually do Tho The fact that he and the Vanderbilt heiress are arc divorced has not cut ort ott the tho pI princely income he ho receives from her 9 ti u py ea Io late fathers father's e estate tate By By- Bythe the terms of the marriage set set set- sett set t ent the Duke IS to continue to draw this as longas long longas longas as he hI 11 lives lies es even though hellow has another wife side Ife and Consuela Consuelo another hJ husband I It is believed to ha hate hae e co cost t the for for- former former I mer Anna Gould GO sc eral millions of to le leI I Lt r I s 4 1 Co Count u n t Loni de do C and nud g a Ins his oar c e e tastes during the thai Sears vears eus sho Od hied with him One ot of his his hIJ curious nu ions S was for keeping h m df sup supplied supplied plied phed Ith quantities of clothes He thought nothing of pairs of trousers at one oric visit to the tho tailor and other articles of apparel apparel In proportion t NewYork When Miss Theodora the New York heiress married the Duke de Chaulnes and w went nt with him to ParIS m they were cre met at the station station by scores cores of his hia creditors The Duchess had tu to sign checks for over to enough of their demands to permit her husband to continue the honeymoon Since thear the war ar left most of noblemen so hard hit lut financially Amen Amerl cas ca's richand rich and charming heiresses es taken on new interest in their eyes Even Cven royalty think how v It would be to ha have hate e for a nice DIce AmerIcan beauty witha with Ith Itha a fortune foS queen some of ofa m a few f millions Bul Bul 5 statesmen ares ud said to hink hlll such A II are th the only only thing that save can marriage as tills this t 3 Eor Eons s 's young y ung K icing throne pf from collapse col J l ot |