TITLED AMERICAN WOMEN.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 12027, 28 March 1903, Page 3 (Supplement)

TITLED AMERICAN WOMEN.

Ho-w they have Invaded Europe.

'•The sun never sets on the American girl," says a writer in the "New York World," referring with a glow of patriotic pride to some remarkable statistics that 'have been collated by that journal regarding the titles now held by the American wives of European noblemen.

In Great Britain, over twenty titles are held by ladies bom in America of American parents.

Among them may be instanced the Duchess Of Marlborough (Miss Vanderbilt), the Dowager Duchess of Marlborough (Miss Lilian Price), Lady Curzon (Miss Letter), the Countess of Essex (Miss Grant), Lady Grey Egerton (Miss Cuyler), Lady Randolph Churchill (Miss Jerome), Lady Craven (Miss Martin), Lady Naylor-Leyland (Miss Chamberlain), LadyLister-Kaye (Miss Yznaza), Baroness Vernon (Miss Lawrence),

LADY CHEYLESMORE (Miss French), Lady 'Egmont (Miss To well), Lady Newborough. (Miss Carr), and the Duchess of Manchester (Miss Zimmerman). Among the twenty-six German titles specified by the "New York World" as now belonging to American-born women are five princesses, eight countesses, and thirteen baronesses. Prance has three American duchesses and five countesses, including the Countess de Castellane, one of the daughters of (Mr Jay Gould. Altogether, fourteen French.titles are shared ; by American women through marriage. Seventeen Italian ladies of title brought handsome dowries from America when they married their Italian husbands, while six 'Russian noblemen also married American wives, and of other countries Holland has two Ameri-can-born baronesses, Bavaria one Ameri-can-born countess, and the Prince of Monaco also married an American. American women are, indeed, being well revenged for the doings of their English sisters in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when it was the custom for American men, the descendants of those old English families who had escaped the Elizabethan and Caroline persecutions, to go to England in search of wives. Yet occasionally, even in those remote days, the American girl found her husband across the sea.

In America there has been some criticism of the American girl for the prodigality with wnich she has bestowed her favours upon the titled European, but, after all, the tendency is not without its logic, ulhere is much comfort, concludes the writer of the article, in the thought that at least 2,000,000 acres of the most valuable land in the United Kingdom comes under American influence through marriages by the American girl.