The Savannah morning news., 1901-05-12
DAIRY MAIDS TO DATE.

The Lady's Herd Is the Cherished
New York. May 10.-The new fancy
among womankind for darying can hardly
be traced to any foregoing craze When
Tess was a sensation some years ago
there was enough picturesque COW lore
and butter-making in the story to have
furnished both a full fledged fad, but
feminine readers and theatergoers ev-
identity were not ready to take dairy work
seriously, and since then golf and garden
ing have interviewed as practical and fash
ionable occupations
Perhaps if this novel fancy can be
traced to any particular source Queen
Alexandra of England is more RESPONSE
blef or it's growth than any one else. Since
she and King Edward have owned San
dringham the farm dairy has been under
The royal mistress direct supervision She
brought her love and knowledge of cows
and buttermaking from Denmark, where
the best butter in the world is produced,
and where her fathers own country es-
tate produces even a superior brand OF de-
licious Danish butter The Sandringham
dairy and COW stables are models of what
such establishments should be. Every day
as Princess of Wales the royal lady when
at home personally inspected every inch of
these buildings, tasted the butter and
criticised 1t, and often had her luncheon
in the green and white tiled milk room,
eating honey and butter on rye bread, and
washing II down with fresh milk.
Cow Culture.
The dairy of the Princess put ideas
some time ago in the heads of rich and
fashionable Englishwomen, and nowadays
nearly every fine estate in the United
Kingdom boasts what is called a ladys
herd and tiled and stained glass laiterie.
The Countess of Warwick is a skilled
butter-maker, so is her step-sister, the
Duchess of Sutherland The Baroness
Rothsehild is equally famous for her
prize winning cows, and other wealthy
peeresses are no less enterprising. Since
the Princess of Wales has developed into
Queen Alexandra the dairying fad has
crossed the channel and the French mo-
blesse are building tiny milk and butter
farms in initiation of the charming rus
tic settlement made at the Trtanon by
Marie Antoinette. A new, rosy, cream
colored silk, now greatly in vogue with
the Partisan dressmakers, has been sym
pathetcally ch1istened peau de vache and
| Channinade has written lovely dairy
maids song In recognition Of the new de-
velopment
BY way Of both France and England the
smart American woman. who can AFFORD
to cultivate any novel occupation or
amusement, has adopted the milkmaids'
vocation with marked enthusiasm. Cow
culture has long engaged the enthusiast
tic attention Of gentlemen farmers on
this side, so that the wives and daugh-
ters have found material right to their
hand but woman-wise they have improv-
ed upon the plain. wholesale and decided
~ undecorative farm methods.
To begin darying In the right spirit
woman must have her own lady's herd.
So far the feminine preference is for the
small, beautifully formed and exquisitely
gentle Alderny cow. A herd comprises
from four to ten OF these lovely and truly
loveable animals. and the owner Of herd
always provides her expensive livestock
first with charming and carefully selected
names, then with complete and commo-
dious stable, and finally with a specially
designed and beautiful dairy.
There are Danish, Dutch German,
Swedish and English diaries to copy, or
quaint little buildings that look like Chi
nese pagodas. all expensive blue tiles and
china inside and out A dairy can cost
all the way from one to ten thousand dol
lars, and the best OF them have a milk
room, butter room. a weighing and pack
ing room, a fine refrigerating room and
court or a balcony, where the owner
can have her friends to tea or luncheon
Some Fashionable Butter Farms.
The Misses Morton are said to be plan
ming the most exquisite little dairy for
their fathers estate on the Hudson river.
and at Newport one Is under contempla-
who loves all animals and cows especial