The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-07-19
ENGLAND,S ARfSTOCR4CY.

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 Visiting Americans Rub Elbows With
 It-How 1t is Justifying It's Existence co
 Tt Plays at Being Great and Works l for tho Human Race-Thc Duchess of l Sutherland and Others of .the oual- l ity"
 | London July 10-Visiting Americans with little money to squander, as we are all supposed to have, and with at least enough toleration toward Eng lands nobility to make us wish to know who's who amongst them, have had opportunities this week for rubbing elbows with the titled, and for putting our hands in our pockets while we were doing it. such as have perhaps not been offered within the same brief space of time in all the long history of either English swelldom or Yankee snobbishness. Truly has it been rec ord breaking week in this respect, and the fact that the whole of this unexam- pied show has been ostensibly for sweet charity's sake, yielding enormous profits to the best of causes, is surely not only a sufficient excuse for the cu- riosity of these who went to see it, but
 
 English aristocracy is in these days justifying it's existence and, in a sense, paying for its privileges by the good 1t does. The longer one watches here the doings and goings of the upper ten,". the stronger must his impression be- come that they are only playing at be- ing great and privileged. and are f1nd- ing their real life-worlS in multiform and ever widening realms of philan- thropy.
 There are still, no doubt, in the swell circles of England not a few Flora Me- Flimseys whose chief thought is of dress and their chief fear that, spite of a bursting wardrobe, they will come to the next swell-function with nothing to wear" You could still too, without using a very fine comb, rake up out of the male nobility specimens of the Lord Dundreary type. whose chief dis tincton Is drawl and their chief use to show that if man be assinine by nature any title he may happen to have can only make him more conspicuous ass. But it isn't the exceptions that make the rule, nor Is it the few black sheep that determine the complexion of the flock Pretended portraitures of Englands aristocracy which give prominence to rakes and noodles and butterflies are not portraitures, but gross and shameful caricatures.
 The typical noblemen of to-day is very likely to be man of the Earl Rosebery type, though, of course, only a few can have his great ability or can ol; iul i,, Ar1 on the feminine side. if you would see the true type and the highest type of what it is fashionable now for titled women to be and to do, you must look at the Countess of Aberdeen, whose days are an unbroken succession of philanthropic activity or at the Coun- tess of Warwick, formerly that Lady Brooke whose name used to be coupled in a goesipy and wholely unmerited way with that of the Prince of Wales, who, not content with the adulation al- ways paid to superb beauty, nor with the pleasures incident to great wealth and exalted position, rolls up her sleeves and goes in for business. She even for time financed and managed one of the swell shops on New Bond street but recently she had to give that m 60 busy is she in planning and con triving to open new ways by which her less favored sisters of this land who outnumber the men by more than a million and many of whom have been kept in dependence hitherto by foolish notions of woman's sphere, shall in fu- ture be self-supporting without giving up any of their self-respect.
 Of course, if you were to see lot of these swell people together, as we who are here have had this week such most unusual opportunities of doing, you would be impressed that neither busi- ness DOT philanthropy has lessened the interest of this favored class in the fashion plates or has diminished in them the laudible feminine ambition to