The correspondent who, under the name Marquise de Fontenoy, furnishes the Chicago Tribune readers with the gossip about European aristocracy, in one of her later papers tells the story of an English millionaire who has left his immense fortune, country seats and estates to his sick-nurse, and alludes to two or three prominent instances where these attendants have inveigled their titled charges into marriage, stating that scores of similar instances might be adduced.
The writer states that the instance she related " has served to bring the entire sick-nurse question upon the tapis," and goes on to say: "It is a question that is more than ever important in consequence of the quantity of girls of every walk of life—but for the most part educated—who, possessing no means of livelihood or sufficient dowry to tempt a man to marriage in the ordinary way, resort to sick nursing as a means of