Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 142, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1911 — Seeking Wives for Titled Noblemen [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Seeking Wives for Titled Noblemen

NEW YORK.—American heiresses who may be pining for alliances with Austria’s titled youth need pine no longer. The way is open to them, and the method of acquiring a prince or a count of either the Bohemian or Tyrolean variety is so simple that it Is within reach of all. There is no mystery about it Miss Yrma Bleyer of Vienna has arrived here to arrange it all. “We tn Vienna know,” says the pretty matchmaker, “that in the United States there are many daughters of millionaires who have had every possible luxury showered upon them since their birth, but who long for what has afways seemed to them unattainable, namely, pride of family and social position. I can give them both. "I have on my list two princes, brothers, one twenty-three and the other twenty-five years. Both are officers in the Austrian army, and their regiment is stationed at Vienna. Their family is of ancient lineage and they own two castles in Bohemia. Each has a fortune of $3,000,000. A condition which must be met in the cases of both my princes, should I find wives for them, is that the American girls must bring them fortunes equal to their own.

"There is one of my clients of whom I can -speak freely because he has returned to Austria after a visit to this country, during which he made jour-' neys to several American cities, including St. Louis, Chicago and Cleveland. I refer to Count Hugo Christalnigg. His family estate is at Ystereln, Austria, and he has a fine castle there. “Count Chrlstalnlgg, who Is about thirty, visited America on a furlough of two months and returned to Austria about six weeks ago after meeting several heiresses. Two of them he found to be impossible. One was very pretty of face, but so fat that her fortune of many millions possessed no attraction for the count. Another partook of fried potatoes with her fingers, which may or may not be good form here, but which Is abhorrent to a wellbred Austrian. But he has hopes of finding one that will be possible.”