Girl Pioneers.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXX, Issue XV, 11 April 1903, Page 998

Girl Pioneers.

Within the last few years 160 American girls, representing in their dowers exactly £ 32,330,600, have married noblemen. It is also a noteworthy fact that scarcely a dozen out of this number are without male heirs. There has been some criticism of the American girl for the prodigality with which she has bestowed her favours upon the titled foreigner, but, after all, the tendency is not without its logic. The society of Europe is a great attraction. It has the charm of romance, of an undiscovered country. There is poetry in the thought of it. It appeals to the imagination, and that is one of the American girl’s strongest qualities. Although the American girl has taken a great many million dollars to Europe, there is much comfort in the thought that at least 2,000,000 acres of the valuable real estate in the United Kingdom comes under American influence through marriages by the American girl. Tl.e flooding of “Burke” and the “Almanac 11 de Gotha” with American names may be a source of great irritation among the English, French, Italian, German, Austrian and Russian upper classes, but it seems likely to continue just the same. The present year will see more beau.iful American women ruling the London Beason than ever before. They have the great houses, the great fortunes, the wit, and the power of assembling clever people around them. They are born society, leaders. They grace the proudest hornet and preside over the finest estates.