The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-06
REAL BARONESS
SELLS CIGARETTES
Her Grace Of Breunig, Formerly
Amy Coudert, Supporting
Husband and Six Children.
BARON is SERIOUSLY ILL
Sister Of Rich Lawyers Under.
takes Successfully to Be the
Family Breadwinner.

New York, August "a real baron
ess,, no less parsonage than Her
/ Grace of Breunig, the former Miss Amy
Coudert. sister to the Coudert brothers
/, of the famous law firm, is making a
living for herself and her children in
New York by selling cigarettes. This
| fact became known yesterday.
4 Baron Breung, who brought to his
nuptials title and splendid person
| atty, but not very much money, is
| laid up In Roman Catholic institu-
| ton here, with no prospect of being
able to get about within year, and
/ SO his wife, who hitherto enjoyed
every luxury that she desired, has
| gone to work and is supporting him and
| their six children.
Besides boosting" the superior adj
| vantages of her especial brand OF
Smokes" to clubmen and others OF
wealth, the baroness is soliciting SUBJ
scriptions to society magazine. So
plucky and persistent has she been in
her work that last week she won $500
prize for gathering certain number
of subscriptions. And she has intro
| duced her sort OF cigarettes success
fully into almost every high-class club
in the city.
Living Modestly Mt Bclmur.
| The Baroness Breunig Is living mod.
estly at Belmar, N. j., and Is conlmut-
| ing to and from New York. She takes
! her work as matter of course and
says she does not see why Il wife
| should not work to support hus-
band when he Is physically incapa BILE
OF providing the familys necessary in
| come.
Five of her children are with her
at Belmar. The sixth. it became known
10 baip fal,
Mrs. Adolph Ladenburg at Newport.
few days ago the newspapers printeu
stories about Mrs. Ladenburg having
adopted wait" The "waif' Is no
such thing. 1T now develops, but is
Beatrice Breunig, the baroness's daugh-
ter.
Society as whole has just learned
that the baroness is "in trade" on her
own account. It Is giving her the
highest possible credit for her bravery.
Amy Coudert first married the Mar
quis de Choiseul Pfaslin. Following
his death she welded the Baron BfNl-
mig. They lived in France for time,
then the baron was offered and accept
ed position with a well-known bank
ing house in this city. Meanwhile,
however, six little Breunigs blessed the
family.
few months ago the baron, who
iie1d All nc COulQ 40 up TO that time |
to make both ends meet in a fitting
manner. was overtaken by illness.
Then the baroness started out to De
the breadwinner. She might have ap-
pealed for aid to the rich Coudert fam
lily or to her married sisters-Mrs. Condo
Mast, Mrs. William r. Garrison and Mrs.
Frank Glaenzer-all Of whom are in
Paris. She might have appealed to
their very close friends and ascot
ates. John Jacob Aston and his son,
Vincent. But she didn't.
The cigarettes which the baroness is
selling have story of their own, |
When the baron was we'll he was a |
great cigarette smoker and at one time
devised tobacco mixture Of his own,
which he had made UP in the form Of
the paper rolls. When he fell i'll his
friends said to the baroness:
why don't you have some of these
cigarettes made up for the clubs and
sell them?'
Il will" she said, and so she did.
None of the Coudert family was in
town yesterday, but the baroness's
uncle George G. Guion. of 100 Broad
way, confirmed the fact that she was
selling smokes" and soliciting SUBJ
scriptions to magazines.