Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-17
PRINCESS FINDS
PROFIT IN CATS
VICTORIA BREEDS PETS FOR
INCOME
ADvERTISES THEM FOR SALE
Duke of Devonshire Prohibits Tipping
of Servants, but Americans Find
Way to Get Around
His Rule
Special Cable to The Herald.

Special Gable to The Herald.
LONDON, Sept. 16.--Every one knows
by this time that Queen Alexandra IS
cat lover, but it has come as sur
prise to number of English women
that her daughter, Princess Victoria,
is not only lover Of cats but an ener-
getic and enthusiastic breeder as well
The princess does not breed cats, 1t
appears, merely to increase the number
of her feline pets. Her BATTERIES" are
worked on a solid commercial basis,
and apparently with considerable profit
to her private pocketbook That her
enterprise is conducted on thorough
business lines may be seen from the
following announcement which appears
in a weekly paper whose space Is
mainly devoted to sales and exchanges
of miscellaneous articles:
Her royal highness, Princess Victoria,
has for sale several handsome chin
chilla kittens. Sire, Puck III, ex-Chela,
also Chela, splendid mother, lovely
green eyes; blue Persian female; cheap
to good homes; must SELL Mrs. Amor
Cumberland Lodge, Windsor Great
Park.
Hint for Piebeians
Mrs. Amor, I am told, occupies an
important position in the household
staff at Cumberland lodge. "Cheap"
is always a relative term, but in this
instance 1t stands for anything between
s25 and 500. When royalty descends
openly to business of this sort for
what can be made out of 1T, aristo-
cratic folk of the humber variety surely
need not feel that they lose caste ny
engaging in trade of any kind. Yet when
woman of title gets hard up and
goes in for millinery. dressmaking, or
any form of shopkeeping, she thereby
loses her right to presentation at court.
In view of the fact that his majesty
does not even draw the line at making
money out of cats in his own exalted
family circle, it would seem that ne
ought, in justice, to rescind this rule.
OF course there are lots Of folks here
and not a few, imagine, in the lana
of triumphant democracy-who would
consider a cat bred by royalty worth
MANY times more than a cat from
plebeian home. Such competition seems
hardly fair to those who are compelled
to sell cats solely on their merits. Soma
day. quite likely, we shall have a rad
ical parliament proposing to dock the
allowance made to princes and prln-
cesses who engage in money making
schemes in which their rank gives them
such a tremendous advantage.
Rule Against Taking "Tips"
There are a few Of the old nobility OF
England who set laudable example
by prohibiting their servants accept
ing gratuities from visitors or guests.
The duke of Devonshire, for instance,
makes it an inflexible rule that no SER
want of his shall take a Tip" When,
however, a party of Americans visited
Chatsworth, the dukes Derbyshire
seat, a few days ago and We're enter
tanned at luncheon and shown over the
beautiful grounds by the dukes stew
ard, the leaders of the party thought
the usual "shell OUT must be the ell
max of the days enjoyment.
The party consisted of four men and
three women and among them $35 was
subscribed. With commendable dis
cretion the money was not offered to
the steward, who, of course, is above
accepting recognition of the kind, but
to an underfootman, who saw the party
to and from the railway station. But
the footman pointed out that it was
against the rules of the dukes estab-
lishment to accept gratuities "tn
money" That seemed to suggest a
way of getting around the rule. The
next day various articles of jewelry
reached the steward from London with
| the request that they be distributed
among the staff at his discretion. The
leaders of the party were Edmund H.
Abbot Of New York and Alexander
Cattanach of Salem, Mass. and both
| had introductions from Sir Thomas
Upton. The duke and duchess were
not in residence at Chatsworth at the
time of the visit, but the latter sent
one of her maids specially up from
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