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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, September 28, 1913, Feature and Magazine Section, Image 33

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Here Is
an Exclusive
Photograph
of Gaby
Deslys
in the
Very
Newest of
Her Big
Black
Paris Hats.
-I know of one girl, recently married to an Italian prince who Is said to have brought over a baker's dozen of
aristocrats in her wake."
mands this reserve but let a man penetrate the mask
BARON VON DE W1TZ, whose vigorous de
fense of international marriages is printed
on this page, is a son of the Grand Chamber
'ain to the Grand Duke of Mechlinburg-Strelltz.
After several visits to this country Baron de Wits
liked it so well that he resigned Ms lieutenancy in
.he Danish navy, married a dowerless American
girl for love, and came here to live, more or less
permanently.
The Baron, therefore, considers he has a right to
tpeak out with emphasis on his belief that interna
tional carriages are usually happy ones.
"By "Baron Von de Wits
IF you can produce a scandalmonger with a tale of
connubial blis3 and get a newspaper to print three
agate lines mention of it. you are a person quite
as extraordinary in your way as the nest-building mon
key and entitled to a glass case in the Smithsonian!
"He Is not the sort of hum-drurrf chap that she feels she knows by heart
the minute he opens his mouth and shows his face."
"They" take it for granted that the title marries the
purse not the woman; never is the purse accused of
having married the title, not the man!
It was never yet even hinted that the American girl,
who Is not in the habit of sticking demurely in her
hotel room when abroad, might possibly have some
thing to do with the appearance of the coronetted
visitor here, to say nothing of that rapidly recruiting
host of American society girls who are being educated
Bbroad, not so much for the learn
ing they may absorb as for the ac-
quaintances they are expected to
make within the circle of marriage
able aristocrats.
Not a few of these young women
attain their majority with a better
command of French than of Eng
lish. Their visiting lists are brist
ling with titled names, among
which the addresses of a male com
patriot Is the exception, proving
the rule. These girls are to all
intents and purposes "Internationa
llzed Europeans." Whenever they
return to this country they are nat
urally followed by their titled ad
mirers. 1 know of one girl, recent
ly married to Italian prince, who
is said to have brought over a
baker's dozen of aristocrats in her
waKe.
I am convinced that American
heiresses marry foreigners for love
In nine cases out of ten. The glamor
of a title may have something to do with attracting
an heiress, and arouse in her a sense of justifiable
feminine curiosity to see what the owner and wearer
of the dignity Is like, but rarely does it influence her
seriously in making the final choice- It would be
charitable, but misleading, to attribute this to some
special moral fibre In the American heiress when tho
fact is that she does not usually know what a title
means until she has been the part owner in one for
quite some time.
Outside of the title there are potent reasons why
the American heiress prefers the' foreigner to her
countryman' With her unschooled feminine intuition
she Is quick to see the decisive divergences between
the aristocrat and the plutocrat
The heiress soon discovers In the foreigner a being
with whom she can associate in mental as well as
material aspects with both pleasure and benefit. His
horizon of life is not obscured and limited by the
smoke of factory chimneys; he Is not hopelessly Im
mersed in the specialization of a trade outside of
which his ignorance is only too apparent; he is not
the sort of humdrum chap that she feels she knows
by heart the minute he opens his mouth and shows his
face. On the contrary, he appears to her in the light
of mystery, inciting curiosity, defying exploration. She
discovers in him a human whetstone capable of sharp
ening her wits and mentality.
Though she may have essayed the role of the grande
dame with all the dash of the proverbially "stunning"
American type, she is usually content at the close of
the tilt to take her place, with maidenish modesty, as
a willing and eager listener rather than remain any
longer in the presumptuous attitude of one who has
monopolized all the desirable attributes and accom
plishments of the world! She feels she is learning
something from the foreigner, who appears to her
keener of observation and more versatile in accom
plishment, and more tolerantly comprehensive In his
views of life, than her American man friends, who
seem rather starved of intellectuality and provincial
ized In cultural means of comparison.
It is in the nature of woman to talk to a man as
from behind a mask her modesty, at all events, de-
"It Is In the nature of a woman to talk to a man as from behind a mask."
cumstance which aided her in pronouncing her pres
ent name, which come3 a trifle harder, but none the
less welcome, than plain Susie Whittier, eh! She
lives with her prince, who is a former aide-de-carp
to the Grand Duke Vlademir, in a splendid chateau on
an island near SL Petersburg, and has evinced no
appetite for baked beans in preference to caviare ir
vodka. '
Another titled union, which disappointed the
gourmandizers of gossip, was that of Miss Eliza
beth Hlckan Field, of New York, to Prince of
Salvator Brancaccio, Duke of Lustra and Prinra
of Triggiano, and, besides, a Spanish grandee of
the premier class. Through him Princess "Liz
zie," who always had a clever head on a pair
of delightfully attractive shoulders, rose to
me aignity or Demg constituted Lady-ln-Waitlng
to the Queen-Dowager of Italy
Everybody is familiar with the Go'uld
Castellane scandal, which occupied thous
ands of columns in the press over a period
of years. But does everybody know that
-tvnima uupuais wiia irince Helie de Sa
gan are still under the roseate spell of
a real devotion; and that this man
who was Dranaea Dy the American
press as a roue and a profligate
spendthrift is earning a reputa
tion ior nimseir as an exceed
ingly careful manager and
a most attentive and ar
dent husband?
It would be prema
ture to comment on
the nuptials which
made Miss Anita
Stewart the Duchess
of Vizen, the sur
render of Miss Mil
dred Carter to Vis
count Acheson, or the
Goelet - Roxburghe
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and the real woman behind it Is his, either to like or
to love.
Is it any wonder at all that a bright, ambitious
American girl, indulged from the cradle In every whim, -habituated
to a privileged, luxurious and fashionable
position, is liable to feel herself more strongly inclined
toward a foreigner pf culture and title than to an
American gentleman, who. no matter what manner of
excellent man he may be, doesn't give the flick of a
cat's tail for anything that cannot be bought and Bold?
Since the eventful year when international match
making may be said to have taken its beginning as a
social departure, there have been some six hundred
odd titled marriages with American brides, only about
10 per cent of which have gotten themselves on the
divorce docket!
Not a few titled American matches have taken a place
in the history of society as eminently successful and
mutually happy. Perhaps one of the most romantic
ally ideal was that which transformed Miss Elise Hens-
ler, of Brooklyn, N. Y., Into the
Countess Edia of- Saxe-Cobourg
Gotha.
Here was an American girl, not
an heiress, who was raised to the
highest dignity in a foreign
country by the disinterested love
of a noble, affluent in tower and
purse an American girl who
might have been Queen of Spain
to-day bad Don Ferdinand not
gallantly refused to give up a life
of idea! happiness with her at the
Chateau Pena in preference to the
glittering responsibilities of a life
of state.
Miss Fanny Fithian, of Santa
Barbara, Cal., was born and edu
cated in Paris, and is a type of
the American heiress who knows
French better than English, which
she pronounces with a consider
able accent. She is not sorry she
became the Countess Arthur da
Gabriac
Does any one remember Miss Mattie Mitchell, the
beautiful daughter of Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, who
took Washington society by storm in her day? She got
the title of Duchess de la Rochefoucauld one of the
best In France; he got a sweet American girl, but not
a cent from her "dad!" '
There's the Princess Serge Belosselsky-Belozirsky.
She had the advantage of being born In Boston, a ch
"American Men? PouflMy
Hats"--Says Gaby Deslys
jrvLLE. GABY DESLYB really lias a lot to acy olouf American
IVl men cfc more than she has space lor here. Borne day
toon she is going to give an extended article about Amer
ican men that will deal with what she says are titter truths;
but she doesn't want to iorite it until she leaves for Paris, Be
sides, now she would rather talk about her hat.
Mile. Gaby, who is appearing at the Winter Garden, 2fe
York, here amplifies Baron De Witts remarks a bit.
;p HVri Plumed Hat and tle New Spider Web Cloak.
men are In too
much of a hurry to make
good lovers and husbands.
They fall In love in a big hurry, in
what you call a hustle, and, whoof !
they fall out again, In a greater
hurry.
An American man sees a pretty
face, a graceful figure; he falls in
love with it This is to-day. To
morrow he sees another pretty face,
and other graceful figure, and he
falls over himself to fall in love
with that! He gets on with the
new before he is off with the old!
Oh, I know! I have had the ex
perience! The American men come
to see me in Paris. They see me
dance, they hear me sing, and that
is enough! They want to make
love before they know the color of
my eyes.
They do not know how to pay
graceful compliments! Their love
making is crude! They have no
finesse!
When the American man falls in
love he hurries to show his love in
a material way! This is right. Men
exist but to shower gifts and love
on women!
But love is not always expressed
;n pearls, In diamonds! A rose, a
spray of lilies from a poor man
means as much to me as pearls from
a king.
As a lover the American man
falls In the little things whlc
mean love to a woman!
As a. husband well, love and
marriage are not the same! He is
more faithful to his wife than the
Continental husband. The Conti
nental husband may be false to his
wife, but she never sees him drunk!
The American husband's idea of
dissipation is to be ialtbiuL hut tp
get drunk.
But why talk of love and hus
bands? Just think of my hats! My
hats to me are what husbands are
to other women!
I make mygelf beautiful for
what? For my hats! If I were not
beautiful, if my gowns were not
chic, my hats would suffer!
There Is my umbrella hat! It is
of soft black velvet, so soft that I
can bend it and It will not break.
It two yards around the brim.
Oh, and the plumes! They are
black ostrich plumes, each one a
yard long. When I wear It I wear
all my pearls and a gown which has
made a queen envious!
Then there is my church steeple
fv,,,1 yrear Ifc in one ot my most
thrilling scenes! It makes me feel
exalted. The hat Is really only a
tight-fitting cap of Jewelled green
net In the front is a tall curved
plume. It makes the steeple. It 13
black. It Is two feet high.
My steeple hat makes me happy
In fact none of my hats has ever
caused me any unhappiness. Could
say mat or a husband? r ...
I
American husband!

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