AMERICAN MIXED MARRIAGES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 134, 29 February 1908, Page 11

AMERICAN MIXED MARRIAGES.

TUIE women in fault.

' An American diplomat . of-' wido ■ experience has been setting forth in tho "Saturday .livening Pose," or Philadelphia; the'reasons Why marriages between American women and husbands .:' generally turn out so badly.-Ho .'writes with knowledge'and 'con-' siderabla insight, and , comes to..tho . most 'unpatriotic conclusion,-that : it is not always tho fault of ■ the foreign . husband. Tiio American' woman,plays her part'in. the,break-. ing ; up of' tho .home.. 1 •,./ I. ■ ■ The ill-success of'these marriages-. is .to a great'extent caused, by tho fact,that national difference's;' aggravato'i i tho; natural bitterness of' tho duel: of' sex. Ho.-says':—"My observation. convinces mo that., of: tho most: notoriously unhappy , marriages of . American women with foreigners .began by some foolish little clash,, of' individual theories resulting from' early.-;, training;;along;■■lines'^'that were diametrically/different ono from tho other. The spirit of mutual concession was absent from tho household; rand air : interminable chapter.of turmoil.and dissension followed as tho direci conscouencc.".

In ono : caso.. - which, 'lid investigated, -thoroughly, the' case of an American girl married :;to a French nobleman, ho found, that the. rock ;'.which ; was wrecking their happiness was ,the .matter of. breakfast. She wanted to have' an • American breakfast of several courses at'nine; he wanted a-cup of cOffeo and a roll, in bed, at ten. 1 '