Limp Nobility And American Money

There are a good raany rich girls in America who have never kept their genealogioal record, or, if they have, take no particular interest in consultmg it, and find more amusement in conlemplating their own or their fathers' assets, writes the Rev. Charles H. Parkhurst, D. D., in the July Ladies' Home Journal. Then, per contra, on the other side of the sea there are a good many languid male scions of nooiüty whose original royal blood has oeen diluted down to almost the vanishing point of attenuation, but who 5nd :n that feeble dilute more satisïaction than they do in their still more ittenuated bank account. Limp nobil.ty anxious for his exchequer meets pulent cominonality concerned for her jedigree, and propose not to marry one inother but to wed their respective ommodities- his blood and her dollars, ind go before the priest and decórate .he occasion with orange biossems and itringed instruments, in order to throw iver the whole the glamour of reguttrlty.