Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-16
ARLS7OCRATS
IN TRADE
TITLED LADIES MAKE THEIR
OWN LIVING
ENTER MANY BRANCHES OF
INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY
The Late Lady Granville Gordon Pio-
neer In shopkeepins, Now Has
Numerous Followers in
Exclusive Set

LONDON, Sept. 15-Society is nothing
| IL not businesslike in this twentieth cen
1 tury age, and women of the fashionable
world have a wonderful aptitude for COM
mercial enterprise, many members OF the
aristocracy being engaged in successful
business speculations and displaying a
| keen instinct in that respect, which
| should seem to show some justification Tor
the well-known assertion that England 49,
before all things, q nation of shopkeepers.
The late Lady Granville Gordon Ia
daughter-in-law of the tenth marquis OF
Huntly) acted the part of pioneer IN
aristocratic shopkeeping, and the milli-
merry establishment in Park street, Gros-
venor square, where she traded under the
name of 'I.ierre'' (an ivy leaf being the
Gordon badge), proved a most profitable
undertaking during her lifetime, while
| equally successful was the beautiful ana
versatile countess of Warwick's shop In
| Bond street, with her name displayed In
bold lettering over the door.
Though it has now passed into other
management, Lady Warwick continues
deeply interested in its original object,
the sale of the exquisitely-made nand-
worked lingerie of the poor women on her
Essex estate, and furthers 1t In practi-
| cal manner. 's> ~.
| iS oOCtcty mIuIHSt .l.'
Lady Rachel Byng, daughter of the
fifth earl of Strafford, is another we'll
known society milliner, who started a
fpurishing hat shop in the west end
some few years back, and the Hon. Lady
| Heryey- Bathurst, one of the pretty and
| popular daughters of the, late (fourteenth)
Lord Inchiquin and Ellen, Lady lnchiquin
"a descendant of King Brien Boroime and
long line Of Irish kingly ancestors) and
stepsister of the present peer. ran smart
millinery shop prior to her marriage,
| trading under her own pretty Irish name
| of Moira in Sloane square, with a mar
velous success. T
The countess of Essex has part inter-
est In laundry in a neighborhood of
London She is charming American
the daughter of Mr.. Beach-Grant of New
York-and has always been greatly adj
mired in society since she became the
second wife of the seventh early of Essex
in 1893.
Mrs. Fitzgeorge, daughter-in-law of
his royal highness the late duke of Cam
bridge, started as a beauty doctor some
years ago, and Mrs Wellesley, "a relation
through marriage of the duke of Welling-
ton, as a florist, with conspicuous sue
cess; while another society beauty spe-
cialist" was the Hon. Mrs. Granville
Knox, a daughter of Harriet Lady Cliff
den and cousin Of the marquise d Haute-
poule the wife of Granville Knox Ia rela-
ton of the earl of Ranfurly), and the
prettiest and most popular of women.
The Hon. Frances Wolse.ey, daughter
and only child of Viscount and Viscount-
| ess Wolseley, has established a garden
farm and school for women at Glynde, in
Sussex, which has proved a most prac-
| tical undertaking-f1nancia and other
| wise.
A Titled Gardener
Lady Coghill is another titled gardener
| and the wife of Sir Egerton Coghils, fifth
| baronet of Glen Barrahane, County Cork,
| a grandson on the maternal side Of the
| third Lord Plunket. Lady Coghill de-
votes her energies entirely to violet farm
| ing, and after paying all expenses con-
nected with her farm. declares her enter
prise to be not only, a most interesting,
but also profitable concern Lady Aileen
| Wyndham- -Quin, the only surviving
| daughter of the earl and countess of
| Dunraven, also essayed violet farming at
| Adare manor, County Limerick, for q
| time, but relirquished her industry, find
| Ing that she could not devote sufficient
| personal supervision necessary to render
1t paying one.
Miss Edith Kerr "a relation of the mar
quis of Lothian), recognizing a popular
need has struck out line for herself by
keeping a servants registry office In the
| reighborhood of Eaton square; while the
Hon. Mrs. De We're Perry Ia daughter-in-
law of the third earl of Limerick) turned
| her inventive genius to a financial sue
cess by patenting her clever safety purse,
managing the business 1t entailed and
running the whole show herself, from
her home In the fair green, isle5 with
commendabie trading talent and zeal.
Owns Knitting Industry
| The pretty young marchioness OF Wa
| terford owns knitting industry at Car
| raghmore, the ancestral home of the
| family in County Waterford.
II The countess of Bessborough, who
founded the Garry Hill Cottage industry
| In 1884, as viscountess Duncannon before
| her husband succeeded his father In the
title) manages 1t entirely by herself, and
makes a laudable effort to induce the
| workers to save some portion of their
| earnings against a rainy day, while SO
| prosperous has been her undertaking that
| the specialties 0ewel, silk and other en-
| broideries), have been largely purchased
| by the late Queen Victoria, Queen Alexan-
| dra and the princess of Wales, besides
| gaining several first prizes and awards
| at the Chicago, Glasgow and Dublin ex-
.hibitions. etc. H
The Countess OF Lucan's Castlebar
tweeds (hand woven by the peasantry on
the Lucan estates in County Mayo have
/ proved a great successS under her skill
full management
The countess of Kenmare's furniture
shop and arts and crafts school at Kill
larney. in the fair Kingdom of Kerry"
| where carved furniture of every descrip-
| tion is manufactured under her direction,
are also additional proofs, If such were
needed, of the business instincts and en-
ergies of the flower of the British aris-
tocracy.