The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-17

Titled Engishwoman, Who Is
private house in London is one of the
tiniest I'm fashionable Belgravia, and is IN
truth one of Charles lis hunting lodges;
Tile wonderful taste that has made the
name of Lucille" one TO swear by In the
world of fashion has all been brought TO
bear upon the decorating and furnishing or
this pretty little house. The walls or some
of the rooms are washed White, while out
lining the wainscoting and running UP over
arches and dOOrwayS goes a trail or green
Ivy leaves cut oft I'm strips from an ordl-
nary wall paper and pasted on TO the walls
II now adorns. For to Lady Dun Gordon
material Is nothing: taste Is everything.
Twice a year. at the beginning of spring
and autumn, Lady Duff Gordon invites TO
her dressmaking establishment her friends
and many of her husbands to see the latest
modes she has designed, and her models
who are carefully chosen for beauty and
carriage. parade up and down and In and
out Of her salons in all the newest robings-
One OF the queerest features of Lady Duff
Gordon's business is her practice of giving
soulful names to her creations-names that
would remind a mere irreverent man of the
titles that a certain famous compounder OF
cocktails I'm New York used TO be credited
with giving to his blends. One of Lady
Duff Gordon's most successful gowns was
actually christened "A dear dead desire"
and beautiful one that ran the scale from
the deepest, fullest blue to the brightest
orange was called Sunset on a distant
shore" 1.-The laughter of spring was a
massing or pale pinks, and another wonder
lit sea-
LIKES AMERICANS BEST.
Lady Duff Gordon frankly confesses that
she far prefers TO dress American women
60 any others. She says they have taste and
they know when a gown is perfect and will
leave 1t as IL is. Besides which they know
how to carry a gown as il should be car
ried and do not detract from the poetry
of II. On the other hand, this titled dress
maker condemns the Englishwoman's taste.
'She will rave over a dress. say how per-
fectly delighted she is with It. and SO on"
says Lady Duff Gordon, yet when I see
her in a box at the opera or at a dinner
party that Engiishwoman will have stuck
some odious bow of colored ribbon on ii and
marred the whole creation"
Lady Duff Gordon is the sister of Eleanor
Glyn. who wrote 1.-The Visits of Elizabeth
and The Reflections OF Ambrosine." and
with glory OF red-gold hair. II was in her
honor that Mr.. Van Allen returned to New
York last July to prepare both at New
York and at Newport for six weeks of
Pertaining on a marvellous scale. You shall
have the best time that any one ever had
in America" were Mr.. Van Aliens parting
words to Mrs Glyn, though the fulfIment
OF the promise was frustrated by renewed
ill health contracted at the coronation dur
bar.
Among other traders who cannot be rec
ognized at court are Lady Wilkinson, who
has started boarding house. and Lady
Hampden. who has opened a number of
diaries in London and given them the name
OF Glynde creameries, all her supplies COM
ing from her diaries at Glynde in Sussex
Sir Thomas Andres de la Rue. has for
feited her right TO be invited TO Bucking-
ham Palace by trading as dressmaker
under the well-known name OF Machinka
IN Dover street Her husband has also
Joined the rank or traders, and is by way
OF being a house decorator.
- l,w. 49, Al
Oswald Chapman, the daughter of the late
Sir William Hartman OF the Morning Post
should also figure among those no longer
she turned her household management tai
ents to account. and has now built up
an excellent little business in the res
tauraEt line. This started by modestly in
wiling typewriters and other women en-
ployed near by to take their teas in the
drawing room OF her little fiat in Victoria
etreet--a suggestion that met with such a
ready response that Mrs. Chapman began
providing luncheons for them at her home
until the business grew so large that she
was obliged to fit up luncheon and tea
rooms of Victoria street, where one can
obtain lunch OF meat. vegetables and
pudding for the modest sum of Is cents.
AIDED BY HER DAUGHTER.
This is all cooked by Mrs. Chapman, her
little daughter, aged fifteen. and any other
of her aristocratic friends who are willing
TO help her in the kitchen or TO serve and
IN uncommon sight to see one OF these lit
tie assistants drive up in a carriage for the
purpose OF giving helping hand during the
rush OF the midday hours. Mrs. Chapman's
little daughter. Poppy" though hard at
work with culinary problems during the
morning. still continues her education in
the afternoon. At 2:9O D. m. her serving
apron is discarded and she goes a-walking
with her French soverness, or on alternate
days with her German instructress.
BY general consent, the hardest business
head among the peeresseS is that OF the
nttle-known Countess OF Essex. who was
Adeia Grant Of New York, before she mar
ried the earl. She never las been known
10 lay out a cent without getting a fair re-
turn for IL. and never has been caught, like
30 many or the other peeresses, on wildcat
schemes She holds shares in number of
dry goods concerns, and is generally under
stood 10 be heavily interested in at least
two fashionable millinery shops carried on
under assumed names. AS she doesn't keep
shop In person, however. she is not exclud-
ed from court.
energetic countess was going TO start a
laundry. As the laundry was not forth
com.ng the report was credited TO some
ter or fact. the countess entertained the
Idea seriously and lately has taken it up
again so far as 10 send two men around
20 inspect the London laundries and report
on the generally unsanitary conditions
which prevail IN them. AS soon the re-
put u ItdQy the Countess purposes 10 ask
for municipal regulations Improving the
condition OF women who work I'm laundries
and II she Is not successful in this, / under
stand that she intends TO go into the bust
ness herself. not necessarily for profit, but
Tor the sake Of wlping out some OF the
wretched places I'm which laundry work is
now done and giving employment to the
women who would be thrown out OF work
The countess doesn't care much for Lon
don society. and has no town house of her
own. Her husband has no head for bust
ness. so the countess manages the estate
herself. and looks after lot OF charities
besides
LAURA FRANK MURCHISON.
copyright. 1904. by Curtis Brown.1