The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-29

l. 1t was the boast of a patriotic Eng
lishwoman at a lengthy luncheon party
the other day. that the aristocracy OF
her country could not be characterized
as mere ornamental self-indulgent lilies
OF the field, She proudly pointed out
the Countess of Warwick as an indus
! trious litterateur, Lady Mary Lloyd as
| the foremost linguist of her day, the
Marchioness of CRANKY as an artist,
and nearly a score of others who could
earn their own livings should circum-
/ stances necessitate their practicing
J professions for pay.
so could many of our New York
aristocracy," insisted the hostess of the
occasion.
There are not many of US" she adj
mitted, who practice our calingS for
filthy lucre, but now and then, as in
the case of Mrs. Trask and Mrs. Van
Rensselaer,, you viii see their names
signed TO some of the most important
papers and short stories in our lead
ing magazines. Mrs. Trask is the wife
of one of our very rich men, and So
cial light, and Mrs. Van Rensselaer, is
a first authority on architecture. Mrs.
s. V. r. Cruger, as Julien Gordon,
earned enough on her novels to sup
port herself handsomely if she elected
to use her proceeds from the publish
ers so, but she,e like her fashionable
sister authors, prefers to spend her
earnings in charity.
Mrs. Leslie Cotton is another dane
ing, dining, operagoing butterfly who
could at any time keep a pack af
wolves from the door with her mahl
stick alone. She is no amateur art
lover, but the author of some of the
most effective oil portraits ever eXhib-
tied in America, and has more offers
and orders for portraits than she will
ever accept and who works at her art
as if she had the inspiration of neces-
sity behind her.
1T would be little difficult to reckon
just how Miss Hewett would decide to
earn her bread if the opportunity arose.
She is a practical road builder, a cap
able horse trainer, a proficient orches-
ira leader and "a past mistress in the
art of stenography and typewriting.
She once wrote story and sent it
under an assumed name to one of the
first magazines in the country, and it
was not only accepted and paid for at
once, but the editor wrote asking for
more manuscript. Evidently there is
no fear of Miss HeWett'S starving like
the poor graSshoppers in Aesop's
fables.
when Mrs. William Sloan's. bank
account runs very low she Will be able
to earn $40 q week In any nOSpital as u
trained nurse, with diploma, and Mrs.
Nicholas Fish would hardly have to beg
the inpresarios to give her a chance
with her piano on the concert stage, if
she really needed the money. She is
one of those gifted amateurs whose
music Paderewski loves to listen to and
teach, just as Miss May Calendar pos
sesses a voice and a vocal method that
Maurice Grau has frankly confessed !
would win her small fortune in grand |
opera.
1.-Two of Mrs. Pierpont Morgan's |
daughters are scientific cooks with /
attesting to their culinary |
and the finish of Partisan |
under Joseph, the great /
chef. They decided to learn to cock
because they felt the necessity of IN
some art that could at any
line be to them of pecuniary value,
md if Miss Helen Gould's riches ever
~ chance grow wings and fly away,
;he is able to practice law in the Man
rattan courts. George Vanderbilt
would not have to look for a job as an