Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1895 — CONSUELO TO BE SNUBBED. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CONSUELO TO BE SNUBBED.

Duchess of Murl borough Has No Standing in the Aristocracy. In exchange for her millions of good American gold Cousuelo Vanderbilt seems to have received but empty honors, according to advices from Paris. It is announced that (He new Duchess of Marlborough, with, all her wealth; will have a mighty lull'd time of it breaking into tile charmed and very exclusive circle of European aristocracy—because she is “without ancestors.” The Duke himself, by virtue of certain continental princely titles, bestowed upon his ancestor, Jack Churchill, the first duke, has the entree to every court in Europe, but his wife—well, “nit!” She being a lady “without ancestors” will have the doors shut in her face. Probably this will net disturb her young grace very much, seeing that her ancestry is certainly just as good and a great deal cleaner than that of the Duke, but the future Duchess of Marlborough will have no standing whatever with the real aristocrats of Europe, and her presentation at any court, save the English and Italian, is simply impossible. The Emperor of Austria, a descendant of the Roman Emperor Leopold, who conferred upon Jack Churchill the dignity, of prince,

may ennoble her, but, to paraphrase a saying of James 1., “he cannot make her a gentlewoman;” neither can he officially invite her to his table. The process of nobilitation would, according to precedent and usage, be as follows: His Majesty allows the applicant, after buying a barony, to assume the historical title it bears. The principality of Mlndelheim, which Its sovereign prince, Jack Churchill, ceded to the crown of Bavaria after a long tenure, for cash, Is in the market, and the King of Bavaria, holding it still, as sovereign and landed proprietor at the same time, will be only too willing to sell it Of course he could not part with the sovereignty, the German Constitution forbids that, but all the feudal privileges, the right to sit in the Bavarian House of Lords, the light to ad-_ minister justice in the lower courts,, to appoint parsons and school teachers, etc., etc., could be had at a fair price.

MONEY MAY NOT MAKE THE “MARE GO” EVERYWHERE.