TITLED AMERICAN WOMEN.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7667, 28 March 1903, Page 3

TITLED AMERICAN WOMEN.

Ho-fl* they havo Invaded Surope. "The sun never sets on tlie Anwrican girl,'' says a writer in ihe " New York World," reforrinsr with a glow of patriotic ! pride to some remarkable statistics that j havo been collated by tljat- journal regarding, tho titles now held by the American wives of European noblemen. j In Great Britain, over twenty titles aio held by ladies bom in America of -American parents. Among them may ha instanced tne Duchess of Marlborough (Miss Vamlorbilt), the Dowager Duchess of Mailborough (Miss Lilian Trice)', Lady Curzon (Miss loiter), tne Countess of Essex (Miss (Van.),. I. tidy Grev Ef*orton (Miss- Cuvler), Lti.dy Randolph Churchill (Miss Jerome), Lady Craven (Miss Martin), Lady Xayior-Lc-yland (Miss Chamberlain), Lndy Lister-Kayo (M.ss Yznaza), Baroness Vernon (Miss Lawrence), LADY CH'EYLESMORE (Miss French), Lady Egmont (MissTowell), Lady Newborough*(Miss Can), and the j Duchess of Manchester (Miss Zimmennan). | Among the twenty-six German titles specified. 0 by the " New York World " as now belonging to American-born women tiro fiv. princesses, eight count- s?.cs, and thirteen baronesses. France has three American duchesses and five- countesses, including the Countess do Castellan?, one of the daughters of .Mr Jay Gould. Altogether, fourteen French titles are shared bv American women throueh 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 Holhi-nd has two Ameri-can-born baronesses, BavaVi one Amen-can-born countess, 'and the IVnce of Monaco also married an American. American women are, indeed. Toeing well revenged for the doings of their English sisters in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when it was the custom for American m^n, tho descendants of those old English famines 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 Avhich she has bestowed her favours upon the titled European, but. after all, the tendency is not without its logic. There 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 tho United Kingdom comes under American influence, through marriages by the American girl. -