The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-10-06
TITLED SOCIALIST
Noted English Woman Visits
New York.
OBJECT OF VISIT UNKNOWN
Couutess of Warwick Tries to Hide Her
; Identity by Incognito Without Sue
cess-Court Beauty Thinks 4S Hours
Week Good Work.

NEW YORK, Oct. 5.-Under the name
pf Mrs. Greville the countess OF War
wick is a passenger on the Campanla'
due here on Friday.
Her presence aboard the Campania
was revealed by chance, for SO carefully
had she arranged her plans that few
Dersons on either side of the Atlantic
were aware of her departure from Great
Britain.
Except for maid the countess is
travelling alone. Nothing is known here
concerning the object OF her visit to
America, although it is inferred her mis-
sion has to do with study OF the con-
ditions of the working classes on this
side of the continent.
The countess of Warwick is the most
remarkable titled woman in England.
Famed since a girl for her great beau
ty, her brilliant wit and serious erudi-
tion, she created sensation during the
hast general election in England by pro
claiming herself a socialist and espous-
ing the cause of the labor party. She
was dubbed the democratic countess"
and startled the staid aristocracy OF Eng
land by invading the slums and dismal
regions OF London to address, from bar
rel or apple cart, her new "triends and
comrades the laboring men.
When the campaign ended and the
party for which she had fought had won
it became known that the countess nad
sold many of her famous Warwick
Jewels to raise funds.
When the countess became a socialis
she did not cease to be the most blue
bIooded of English aristocrats. She daz
zIel the slums with visions of Parisial
toilets such as they never had dreame
of, and her migrations through tn
ssualid east end and the dock region
were performed in a costly automobil
of the most glaring red. This little in
consistency in her faith she used to eS
plain on the ground that since red
the socialist color it was the proper col
or for her automobile.
1t was not until after her 40th yea
she is now 45 and still beautiful, tha
the countess of Warwick plunged int
socialism. All that the opposite phas
Of society had to offer had been her
from the warm friendship of her kin
to the homage of small kingdom {
her own comprised in the $4,000 ia
acres that make up the estate aroun
Warwick castle, her home, one of til
stateliest in England. Her conversion
socialism was sudden and spectacula
But il was thorough.
TIE platform with which the "dem'
cratic countess startled her arist'
cratic friends had for its planks thei
reforms:
Abolition Of land monopoly.
Abolition of the house of lords.
Control of labor and cooperative pril
aiples.
Forty-eight hours the maximum of
weeks work.
OF course the countess had to answ'
kha scoffers who pointed to her as beir
enc of the biggest landholders in En-
land. How could she help that, she al
swered. The land was forced upon he
Ii was a burden she had to bear unit
the great panacea of socialism lifted
from her shoulders. It was an argumel
btat always made the dock lahore
a6esr, but in the clubs and boudoirs
the west end they grinned.
But the originality, industry and re
Rhilanthrophy always did amuse h