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Show FOREIGN ALLIANCES. American girls have for many years furnished European satirists with sub? jects upon which to vent their spleen against republican institutions, and it has come to be a common jest that while an American girl loves her country, she fairly adores a titled man beyond all things. There is some truth in this, but far more of cruel jest. Nowhere are girls so ingenuous and honest as in America, Ame-rica, and nowhere are women so -universally respected as in America. Foreigners look upon all American girls as great heiresses,and as perfectly legitimate prey. If Henry James gave us Daisey Miller, a perfectly natural girl and one of whom Americans need not be ashamed, he also gave us Gilbert Osmond and Isabelle Archer. Osmond was Jhe very type of a fortune hunter, and although al-though he was pleasant, affable and accomplished, ac-complished, beneath it all there was the base motive money. The latest case of an unhappy alliance by an American girl is that of Nellie Grant who married Sartoris. At the time the match was made it was considered consid-ered brilliant, but like so many brilliant weddings it had a false lustre. The story now comes that she is unhappy, and that Satoris is a man of exceedingly coarse nature. The details differ from the like cases but the result is the same. It is the same old " story of money for position on the one hand, and for money on the other. No doubt the same story will jTet be heard about the Princess Colonna, nee Mackay. Lady Randolph Churchill is an American lady, and seems happy and influential. There are other cases like, hers, but they are rather the exception : that the rule. American girls would do well to remember that there are more fortune hunters in Europe than in America, Ame-rica, and that they are far more un-sprupulous un-sprupulous too. The safe rule by which to be guided in these cases is to remember remem-ber that foreign alliances as a rule are misalliances. |