Anglo-American Alliances.
Mrs Stuyvcsant Fish, the wife of the President of the Illinois Central Railroad, has in conversation with a St. Louis (U.S.) reporter, been making some .very candid criticisms; ; of the dress of the American women and the marriage oE American girls to foreign noblemen. / >S!he is reported as saying :—Mrs Roosevelt, -wife of" the President, it . is said, 'dresses on- £60. a year, and she looks it. I should not like to be the. President or the President's wife. I would not like to eat with negroes,: and I do nbt believe in equality. We are coming more and more to, have an aristocracy and a common, people. I do ; not .believe in being, too democratic. Newport is not declining/'1 'but is just, now paying to' 6' much attention to foreign lords. By'marrying- : '-European, noblemen Americangirls are making themselves liable to the ridicule of the whole world. The marriage of Miss Goelet to the Duke of Roxbiirghe' is the latest piece of; : this sort of folly. Of course the, Duke is not so; bad as some foreigners who''have married. American. girls, for he has some' money — about twelve thousand sterling-a year. . But that is not much for people of his station.! I think it very foolish./
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7713, 5 December 1903, Page 7
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