Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 306, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1912 — GIRLS LIKE YANKEE HUSBANDS [ARTICLE]

GIRLS LIKE YANKEE HUSBANDS

Fraulein Mohlau the Latest to Show Appreciation of Their Superior Qualities. Berlin. —Alliances between German men of title and American girls dowered by milionaire fathers have been steadily increasing for forty years or more. The supply of American heiresses has, however, never been large enough to meet the demand among the poverty-stricken aristocracy of the fatherland, so that of late years the of the wealthy bourgeoisie have been accepted. But in the marriage recently at Dusseldorf of Roy S. McElwee, formerly of Indianapolis, Ind., but now of Berlin, with Frauleiu Ellen Mohlau the world sees another of the rapidly multiplying illustrations of the modern tendency of the German heiress to throw herself and her fortune at the feet of an American husband. The par value of the American husband may keep on depreciating among American girls who live in Europe, but it is a fact that the wealthy girls among the middle classes of Germany infinitely prefer an American man even to a scion of the most ancient German nobility. And it is interesting to note that parental approval follows their preference. The American has the reputation of making the best husband. He is more considerate and more faithful to his marriage vows. He does not’ Isolate his middle-class wife from her family and relatives as the German aristocrat does. Fraulein Mohlau’s father, Adolph Mohlau, is a wealthy manufacturer of Dusseldorf, a royal councillor of commerce and president of the Dusseldorf chamber of commerce. His daughter is pretty and accomplished, being an excellent musician and an expert horsewoman. She is credited with having had numerous opportunities to marry German men of title. Mr. McElwee is the son of a Methodist minister of Indiana. Mr. McElwee returned to America for a course 'at Columbia university, but is now permanently established in Berlin. He acted for a while as private secretary to Andrew D. White when Mr. White was ambassador to Germany. '