The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-03-24
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rather expected to come to the throne
any way, for Victoria was a delicate
child. and this cousin of hers was next
in line. BY a similar twist of luck.
also, the duke only just escaped being
king Of Hanover. But the duke him
self put the CroWning touch on his
story of What Might Have Been by
throwing away all royal favor, reject
ing all the right royal princesses he
might have welded, and breaking the
stern law of royal blood to marry an
actress named Miss Farebrother, who
was noted neither for power or beauty
Half the crowned heads of Europe tried
to persuade him to throw her over. He
could not give her his name Or title
and he had to invent name, Fitz-
george, for their children. But he stuck
to her through thick and thin up to
the day Of her death. Queen Victoria
forgave him in time and had him made
commander-in-chief of the British ar
my, a position he held till the British
public demanded fresher blood for the
place, and Viscount Wolseley was put
in power. The duke will begin his Saith
year next month"; and is now almost
helpless physically, but his mind is as
bright as a dollar, and he is still able
to swear more wildly, picturesQuely,
vigorously and forcibly than any other
man on record in the British empire.
1t is a matter of common knowledge
that the signs on something like half
a dozen of the millinery and drapery
| shops on fashionable Band street hide
under assumed names the financial in
| terests of as many peereSSes or daugh-
tiers of titled families. One of them,
the dashing Countess Of Warwick
came out boldly. as is her wont, and
put Countess OF Warwick in big let
tiers over her shop front, and used to
make a practice of being on the prem
| iSeS as much as possible.
The shop was started for the sake of
! the fancy work done by the girls of the
village of Easton. Finding new occu-
pations for women is a pet pursuit of
| Lady Warwicks and two or three
| years ago she had the ingenious idea
! of having English girls taught the art
! of embroidery as it is practised in
| France. The girls produced such fine
work and the demand for it grew SO
| rapidly, that it was soon necessary to
! open London headquarters, where Or
! ders could be taken.
Lady Rachel B-ng. daughter Of the
| Earl of Stanford. is another member Of
the British aristocracy who has the
! courage of her convictions and puts her
name on her shop front without false
modesty. You can see it at II Hanover
street, in the midst of the fashionable
shopping quarter: Rachel Byng,
Modiste and Embroiderer." She attends
! to business in person and makes a
! comfortable income out of it.
Peers in trade are so plentiful now
that they attract little attention. The
Earl of Rosebery, once premier of Eng
land and likely to be again, sells milk;
the Marquis of Londonderry, postmas-
ter general has his coronet and title on
his coal carts, and Lord Harrington
owns a fruit stand in the yard of
Charing Cross railway station. Lord
Rosslyn has been in about every kind
of business and so has Viscount Mount
morres. who now earns living as a
newspaper reporter. Lord 1veagh and
Lord Burton are the greatest brewers
in the kingdom-and so on through the
list. Even the present premier used
to earn precariouG living as a news
paper writer.