The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-09
COMMERC|AL|SM IN
 BRITISH PEERAGE Long List of Notables Are in Active Business
 
BOTH MEN AND WOMEN
Some Queer Requests Are Contained in Will of Wealthy Spanish Lady Who Owned Considerable
 Property in England

London, October S.-(Special )-That prosaic commercialism Is being infused Into the blood of the present members of the British peerage Is evidenced by the long list of noblemen and noble ladies engaged in active business enterprises. tent to live on the income derived from his vast domains, but the enormous land taxes that the owners of big estates have to pay under the present form of gov- ernment have made the members of mod ern nobility look to other sources to in- crease their incomes.
 The Earl of Pembroke Is notable ex- ample. He represents one of the most ancient titled families in the country, but
 instead of living on the income derived from his land tenants he obtains most of his fortune making carpets The Mar quis Aylesbury and Lord Rayleis have milk stores all over London, while Lord Londonderry and Lord Wimborne have coal depots everywhere. The Earl of Dudley is corn and coal merchant. Lord Harrington was the first peer to open a green grocery shop and his first store near Charing Cross is patronized by many of the leading hotels. Lord Ram furley, a descendant of William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, has also dealt in fruit both here and in New Zealand. Lady Duff Gordon Is the famous dressmaker Lucille" and the Countess Warwick has a shop in Bond street for the sale of art needlework. Lord Suddley deals in jam and his whole fruit" preserves are sold in large quantities. Among the peers who A,l Txr4o o<xt. ot,5 ord Ardilaum.N Another jam-maker is Wis countess Molesworth Lady Aukland keeps furniture shop in Baker street. The Countess of Essex is still interested in a laundry which she started with Mrs. Hufa Williams, and Lady Montgomery keeps a millinery establishment in May fair The Earl of Hardwick sells cigars and the Marchioness of Ripon sells motor cars lon commission
 Some very queer bequests are con tained in the will of a wealthy Spanish lady who owned considerable property in this country The testatrix, whose name is not published, says:
 This day, Wednesday, at 8 o'clock in the morning, am alone, as usual, so no one could influence me. And, although I am in bed with a swollen leg, my head is sound of judgment, so that what I write here is done with my full knowledge.
 The testatrix goes on to state that she leaves:
 Two thousand dollars to the Society for the Protection of Animals, on condition that 'all the three dogs, that is to say, Mirza and her two little ones, the cat and her little kittens, shall be received and we'll cared for by the society until they die of old agep
 Two thousand dollars for her burial in A vault and the saying every day of one mass.
 Sixty thousand dollars to Madame Me dare de Sceaux and her children, re- ouesting that they may accompany her to the cemetery.
 She leaves s5o0o upon trust for her hus- band especially stipulating that he Is to live on the interest and not to touch the capital, and that if he remarries neither the income nor the capital shall any longer be his.
 He may dispose of the capital only If he becomes a monk.
 Regarding her family, she says:
 As to my sisters, nieces, nephews, brother-in-law. and cousins, nothing shall come to them from me but bag Of sand to rub themselves with.
 None deserve even a goodbye. do not recognize a single one of them.
 She then concludes ''This is my will" but woman-like, adds a postscript on domestic affairs, saying: My husband must pay before everything, MT. Can inacci. the grocer, the milkman, the butcher and give francs to the washer woman
 For two and thirty years Cleopatra's