AN AMERICAN ARISTOCRACY.

Cromwell Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 2210, 29 August 1910, Page 7

AN AMERICAN ARISTOCRACY.

To an American who spends the whole of his jocund youth, his anxious middle years, and even his senile age in the feverish acquisition of dollars, it must be humiliating and repugnant to see huge fortunes passing out of the country, along with the vivacious American girl, into the possession of penniless but titled foreigners. Small wonder that a bill is to be introduced into Congress to tax these vast dowries before they are wafted away for ever. It is clear now that the Transatlantic woman is more enamoured of mere rank than any other feminine entity on the face of the globe. To settle down to be plain "Mrs." is to her a sign of disastrous failure, a resigning of her rights and privileges. When possible, she turns herself into a Princess—in every sense a Dollar Princess—nor does she think it strange or incongruous when members of Royal European houses seek her hand.

Possibly a solution of this difficulty will be found in the creation of a Peerage on "the other side." And stranger things have happened. —Ella Hepworth Dixon, in "Sketch."