Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1919 — SEEK YANKEE MATES [ARTICLE]

SEEK YANKEE MATES

AMERICANS BESIEGED BY HUNGARIAN FAMILIES, REPORT. Royalist* Wish to Retrieve Their Fortune*—Noblemen are New Pauper* —Count Karolyi Beg*. Vienna, April' 18.—Foreigners, especially Americans, are receiving attractive marriage proposal* from families of wealthy young Hungarian women, who expect by this means to save something from the wreck of their fortunes because of the fact that foreign property will be exempted from nationalization. Women who marry foreigners will be enabled to trafe) freely over the frontiers with their families. There is a disposition on the part of the v new government, however, to allow middle-class Hungarians to leave, provided they do not take property with them. The condition of many Hungarians who have fled to Vienna Is one of abject poverty. Count Alexander Esterhazy, who lost his son In the war, and who wns with former Emperor Charles until the latter went to Switzerland, Is finding means of subsistence by selling the furniture of his house here. He has already sold his clothes. It is estimated there are only 20 naturalized Americans nnd American wives of Hungarians In Hungary. It’ Is possible that an effort will be made to send food there. There Is little meat and jfw vegetables in the hotels or mnyfcet here. When Count Karolyi was In Vienna he called on Prof. Philip Brown, secretary of the AmerfCafTlnission here, and told him that he would be glad to accept a can of condensed milk.