TRADE IN HEIRESSES

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1162, 24 June 1911, Page 5

TRADE IN HEIRESSES

QUESTION IN CONGRESS. By Telecraph—Press Association—Coßyriebt Washington, Juno 22. Mr. .Babath, an Illinois representative, introduced in tho House *of Representatives a . resolution demanding that the State Department inquire why only two dozen American peeresses were granted permission to attend the Coronation cereI monies, the amount of money tho Vi States exports with heiresses, also tho mirhber of such marriages that have proved happy. It is not likely the resolution will be treated seriously. Mr. Babath said hp desired the speci : fled information to allow the country to judge to what extent it benefited by such trade. INTERNATIONAL MARRIAGES. An American writer on tho subject of international marriages said sonio little time ago:— "The enormously rich American who seeks titles and castles and the impecunious, mercenary nobleman who has his family escutcheon on salo are not typical. They only represent a small class in both countries, and it is from that class, almost without exception, that tho unhappy marriage alliances have arisen. It is not because they are international that they are unhappy. It is because the people contracting them arc what they are, and the results are the samo whenever tho high ideals of love and the sacredness of marriage are disregarded,, whether the contracting parties aro American and French, French and French, American and American, or any other nationalities. • "There is no doubt but that tho American colony at the British metropolis contains a group of women of which any country .might be proud. Certainly tno brilliant Lady Paget (Minnie Stevens), whose name has been synonymous with almost every large charity undertaken in the British kingdom for many years, represents more than capital. And surely the same can bo said of the gifted Mrs. Adair; the cultured Mary Endicott, wife of Mr. Joseph Chamberlain; the capable Mrs. Georgo Comwallis West, who has .taken such an active part in that wonderful Tory organisation tho Primrose League; that galaxy of titled women who have proven themselves such successful social leaders, tho Duchess of Roxburgh, the Duchess of Manchester, Countess Craven, Countess of Orford, Lady Essex, Lady Tankerville, Lady Lister-Kaye, the Leiter sisters, Lady Curzon, and Mrs. Colin' Campbell, who have taken hold of social and economical questions with so much earnestness."