A SOCIAL ALLIANCE

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 4734, 16 August 1902, Page 5 (Supplement)

A SOCIAL ALLIANCE

The Anglo-American "Alliance,” as far as marriages between Americans and eligible members of the English aristocracy can promote it, is expected to receive a decided stimulus this summer, writes a London correspondent. The proportion of wealthy young women among the American visitors is said to he the largest London society has ever known in one year. American women who have become established members of English society are, almost without exception, successful socially; their wealth has, after all, been only one stepping stone to a position of which their personal attractions form tho permanent basis. And by this social success they have smoothed the way of many of the younger women who are now aspiring to follow their example. The Duchess of Marlborough, Mrs J. Chamberlain, Mrs Ronalds, Mrs Bradley Mar. tin, Mrs G. Comwallis-Wes't (formerly Lady Randolph Churchill). Mrs Mackay and a score of others are ready to act as social sponsors, and perhaps also, for it is interesting sport, as match makers, when desirable young ladies from the other side of the Atlantic present themselves. All this is in accordance wiui the spirit of the times, at least as displayed in America. A Chicago firm has sent a circular letter to the municipal authorities of niany towns in the western States stating that it proposes to act as a medium of exchange between western men and the surplus of eastern women. There is still a scarcity of women in tho west, while thousands of women in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago and other large cities are hopelessly wearing out their lives m offices and shops. The new bureau has conceived the novel idea of circulating privately among such women a printed album giving photographs and descriptions of men in California and other places beyond tbe Rockies who are desirous of marrying, and the municipal authorities are boldly asked to use their influence on behalf of the schema,