AN INDEPENDANT WOMAN. A Rothschild who Proposes to Marry the Man of Her Choice.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 207, 18 June 1887, Page 3

AN INDEPENDANT WOMAN. A Rothschild who Proposes to Marry the Man of Her Choice.

A Paris letter to the New York " Tribune" Stays : The determination of Mllo. Helen Rothschild to marry accoi-ding to her own wishes and without regard for what the rabbis of the great banking family to Avhioli she belongs, or Mrs Grundy may say, is the town talk of the hour and the .sensation of the Jewish world in these parts. The young lady is the only daughter of Baron Solomon Rothschild by a Rothschild whose mother was a Kothschild, and of the lineage ot Meyer Am^chet Rothschild founder of the great five-headed bank. Mile, Helen it, not at all pretty. She has a heavy figure, and a plain, fat, common looking face. One of her passions is horses, another dogs, another — and who can blame her for it — line-looking men. Mile. Helen has been greatly slandered by venemous tongues. In France nobody understands a girl of her independent character. She is one of the besfc-liearted persons in existence, aspires really to do good in the world, and is of a bounteous, untlicatrical nature, hating what is allied to the term "high life." All tnat her father loft her when she was an infant ha& increased during her minority to t"ie sum of £12,000,000. The object of the young lady's passion is a Belgian calvalry oilicer oi an old Catholic family, who la&t winter led the cotillion at her mother's balls, and is almost as penniless as the tfi&t Saxc-Coburg prince, who quartered himself on the English, was when he went theie to the court of Princess Charlotte of Wales. The Baroness Solomon Rothschild is a kind, good soul, but, however, she thought .she must resist; the young lady's, will and all the more so as her own kith and kin urged her to do so. But this Helen of a modern kind said that .sho was of age and meant to take a header. She would not elope, but she would set up on her own account with all her personal attendants, horses, dog-< and the rest at the hou&« at Pierrefonds of the. doctor who presided at her birth, and si ay theie until she had forced, by legal proceedure, her mother and ex-guardian to consent to her marriage. This proceeding is termed the son ing of ttc/cs n^peduc, or respectful acts on the person who^e consent is lequired. The women are more independent than the mon in this groat banking dynasty, and in mind, ta^tet- and feeling their supeiiore.. They are sick of being cooned up with near relations and Vv ant to go into the wide world.