Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1894 — American Magnificence. [ARTICLE]

American Magnificence.

Without making much fuss about It, a largo number of foreigners of rank and tillo are visiting American friends at thoir summer residences, and otherwise ‘‘looking round” at this country and its institutions. Passing by some of theso strangers’ criticisms on the present stato of affairs, it is amusing to nolo tho surprise tho modo of living hero creates in intelligent minds accustomed to much simpler forms of wealth at homo. Count Nympsche, a Gorman friend of Prince Jlntzfeldt, who married tho daughter of C. P. Huntington, expresses tho liveliest astonishment at such an establishment ns tho Huntingtons occupy for other than royalty. He says there is no luxury or magnificence to compare with that; seen in private houses in America anywhere from the Atlantic to tho Pacific, and his opinion Is echoed by foreigners of other nationality, as well as by our so-culled English cousins. A well-known huly, who has inudo Berlin her homo for many years, returned to her native land last spring to find shell an Aladdinlike change that sho says it has ulmost inado her silly. “No one in Germany, at least, dreams of tho extent of this moneyed uristocrasy,” sho paused—“l hate that phrase, and withdraw it! But it surprises me to see luxury where I left more comfort only twonty years ago. Tho emperor is not housed half so well as some of my acquaintances in thoir summer places.” Tho frugal German appears to bo most touched by American progress in the weird art of living up to a big income.—[Boston Herald.