The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-02-20
RICH WOMEN WHO CAN WORK.
Society Queens who Could Earn Their
Bread II They Had To.

If tickle fortune should sweep away
at one fell stroke the accumulated in
heritances along New Yorks Fifth
avenue, the wives and daughters Of
millionaires would make very fair
showing in the ranks of the arts trades
and professions. For most of them are
qualified to earn their own living.
If Mss Helen Gould were not the
heiress of several million dollars it is
said among her friends that she would
take bar examination and hang ont
her shingle as an attorney y-at-law.
Helen Gould is q very remarkable
woman. Only her sex has precluded
her from distinguishing herself as not
ably as her brother George has done in
the world of affairs But Miss Gould
has decided horror of appearing un-
conventional.
Anna Gould, the little Countess of
Castellane, is quite as frivolous az her
sister is studious, and the sisters are
entire opposites in temperament.
Edith Kingdom Gould, the wife of
George J. Gould, earned her living on
the stage before her marriage. She was
a very clever actress and very bust
ness like young woman, and there is no
doubt that if fortune .wrested it's
favors from her as wife of millionaire
she could support herself, and her
family, too, by her profession.
Miss Elsie Clews, the daughter Of the
millionaire banker, has just finished
post graduate course at a prominent
woman's college which offered her, it is
authoritively stated, professorship in
Greek. She is scholar of rare erudi-
tion and would have preferred a Greek
professorship to society debut, but she
has nevertheless taken up her social re-
sponsibilities very graciously.
Mrs. Elisha Dyer, Jr., is one Of the
best dressed women in New York soci-
ETY., and she has the distinction of de-
| signing her gowns. If Mrs. Dyer were
reduced to penury she could easily pro-
cure position with any of the leading
dressmaking firms as a designer of toll
cites, for she has both originality and
artistic talent
| If Miss Alta Rockefeller saw the last
! penny of the Rockefeller millions disap-
| pear she could apply for position as
typewriter and private secretary with
the certainty of giving satisfaction in
her work and earning commensurate
salary, or she could give music lessons-
She is an expert operator on the type
writer and good musician. She as
sists her father in his private cores
pondence and typewrites many of his
business letters.
If Mrs. Hugh Paget, erstwhile Pauline
Whitney, daughter of the ex-Secrerary,
ever finds herself in reduced circum-
stances she will have valuable equip
ment for the earning of her daily bread.
She is thoroughly trained housekeep-
er. Since her mothers death the cares
and responsibilities of great house de-
volved upon her shoulders, and she
proved herself an admirable manager Of
household affairs, experimenting all de-
tails from the linen room to the larder.
If Mrs. Van Rensselaer, Cruger, wife
of the almost millionaire manager of
Trinity's millions, were reduced, to pow
erty and dependence on her pen she
could make fair living, and no doubt
earn added laurels for herself as "Juli-
an Gordon" Mrs. Cruger is a hard
working literary woman, as it is.
Richard Watson Glider is by nomeans
millionaire, but he is wealthy man,
and his wife is socially woman of inn
portance. The thought of toll comes
not near to her, and yet before her mar
riage Mrs. Glider was a successful
painter of pictures Should the Cen
tury's circulation fall to zero and the
Gilders lose their money, Mrs. Glider
could no doubt very materially
supplement the family income with her
brush.
Mrs. John Jacob Astor, in the event
of a cataclyism engulfing the Astor mil
lions, could earn her living as dress
maker. She is an expert needlewoman,
and besides making the flags that fly
from her husbands yatch, she has act
ually cut, fitted and sewed many of
her own outing and house gowns, for
pure delight in the work and the know
ing how.
Miss Bonner, the daughter of Robert
Bonner, has Gloss in sewing in
the st. Bartholomew Parish School,
of DR.. Greers church, and is a fine
seamstress and practical woman.
The Misses Hewi t. daughters of eX-
Mayor Hewitt, are excellent musicians,
and have frequently played in orchestra
on occasions of charity, or at private
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