Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-08
MILLIONALRES TO
TURN BOOTBLACK
FAC SYSTEM WILL BE APPLIED
TO FIELDS SONS
Boys Enter Eton This Week and Will
Have to Perform Chores
for Upper Class
Men
special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald
LONDON, Sept. 1.-The two grandsons
of the late Marshall Field of Chicago.
who will attend Eton college this fall,
will have to do their turn at tagging
for the sixth form boys. This includes
the blacking of their masters boots
and the cooking of their breakfasts.
Young Marshall Field and his brother
have put in two terms at Rugby, but olo
not like it, and have changed to the
most aristocratic school in England.
Mrs. Field has just spent great deal
of money on a handsome country mouse
near Rugby, a.Rd yet is now looking for
q house on the River Thames. near
windsor. She may also next season have
a town residence, though to date one
of the luxurious apartment suites at
Claridge's hotel has sufficed for her ana
her family.
It is practically settled that young
Mrs. Field will make her home in Eng
land more or less permanently. She is
charmed with English life and the Eng
lish people.
1t is said on good authority that the
two Field boys are destined for careers
in England's army and navy respectively
These of course, are the swagger profes-
sions in England for the scions Of noble
or wealthy families, and quite a few
Americans have placed their sons in the
army notably in the case OF young Astor.
When the Fields first came to London
the boys were in care of governess
and a tutor But this entailed residence
of some sort, which Mrs. Field could not
at that time decide upon. She was ad-
vised to send the boys to one OF the
big public schools and left to them the
choice. Young Marshall Field at the
moment was busily engaged in reading
that fascinating boys book, Tom
Browns School Days." AS all know, the
interest in this centers at Rugby. So the
boys chose Rugby.
Don't Like Rugby School
Mrs. Field then instructed real estate
agents to look for house In the neigh
borhood She wanted one where shel
could be near the boys and large enough
to entertain her friends as we'll as theirs
when they came back for their holidays.
After a great deal of looking around she
selected a beautiful Elizasetnan man
sion standing in large grounds a few
miles from the historic school, She
spent much money on alterations and re-
decoration and furnishings.
The boys went to Rugby and entered
the modern side of the school. But 1t
was their first experience of an English
public school and they frankly told their
mother they did not like it The English
boy at Rugby appears to be down on
not have quite the same pleasant expert
ence as their hero, Tom Brown"
In the meantime Mrs. Field had been
told by many of her friends that she had
made a great mistake in not sending her
boys to Elton college, as it is the most
aristocratic school in England and prac-
tically all the peers as well as royalty
are educated there.
When Mrs. Field proposed to her sons
that they should go to Elton they were
delighted, for there in addition to the
other sports, were the river and the row.
ing. They were obliged to finish their
two terms at Rugby. however, and now.
in the second week of September, will
begin at Elton.
There they will consort with marquises,
earls, barons and baronets galore, and,
with some of these young peers, will have
to do their turn at tagging for the sixth
form boys.
Mrs. Field is desirous of being near the
youngsters, and it is for this reason that
she will become the neighbor of the Wal
dorf Astors and other notable Americans
and English nobility on the banks OF the
river. She now is looking for a suitable
house there.
Elton college is situated on the river.
nesting at the foot of Windsor castle
and being Joined to the royal borough OF
Windsor by a bridge.
The big house near Rugby is now a
white elephant on Mrs. Fields hands, yet
is such a delightful place that she has
decided to use 1t every fall and winter
during the fox hunting and the shooting
seasons, and will entertain there quite a
good deal. Luckily she had not bought
it-merely leased 1t for a few years with
the option Of purchase.