The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-10-31
||lBuCAN GIRLS
|OOK ON TITLE
As INVESTMENT
nwIieh Author Says Peerage
X Represents Business. Not
Snobbishness, To Them
TELLS MANY STORIES
OF SOCIAL EXPERIENCE
Yr1ierick Townsend Martins
New Book win Be Eagerly
Read In Society

LONDON, Eng, Oct. Sl.--frederick
ruvnseud Martins volume Of remin-
4 1865 entitled. Things ] Re
rn1nw," will be read eagerly by
n Ank0o,American society. II is full
Il q 1necdotes about well-known people
Il ~ = assured an extensive circula-
/ 1ion @ the Libraries and booksellers
4 hsvo given large orders.
Unrfiu expresses what may be con-
4 sid1red too candid views on American
B - noes. Il sometimes pity the girl
VIZ y subjected to the endless
8yo4I1No supposed to At her for the
4 IN in American society or to
& Gnl(y her for the British peerage."
y - xn. There are daily lessons In
4 T1A<1G and oil kinds Of physical cul-
4 fnrG From morning until night she is
~ tuay learning something physic-
4 n1l1 ~ mentally new. It Is q strenuous
y HE not unlike the royal education,
3an1 onlY the pupils natural vivacity
3Geo60GfS her from becoming artificial.
h1bo 6aughfefS Of liberty are
$3.50 ~. They spend money lavish
III. III WIN discrimination and II
(y1Aee fnauner Of doing 20 IL occasion
4oUY " Nstle blatant, surely much can
- snfgiven those who give much.
FXhov believe In the value OF adver.
Z 11oonomt. they like to see society
n q 64nphO about their jewels and
6Owns, and they love to. knox all the
EsWo511 will read about THAR vast I'm
Z prntulnentA. on -.theE-~ hnsoanos
- tsrm ! represeuts business.
not tnC6nishness. They regard their
y poa1ticn IA the peerage. as an invest
ESneiE tor. -. both cases the idea Is
f4&et they Will become paying con-
\ 90 late King Edward used to tell
Z11AnD Alice de Rothschild that al
EfhouGh American women we're charm
I'm they passed judgment upon each
Hnthor too sharply" Whenever | ask
EConsuelo. Duchess of Manchester.
E0bout an American lady" said His
Majesty, II am invariably told:
oh, sir: she has no position al
Home. Out there she would be Just
E1lrt under our feet"
ES Martin tells many stories OF the
Eonr1y days OF the American Invasion
SSf English society. At Cowes every
E1xe was talking about Mrs. John
EGackay. The women were on the
E11ge OF expectation TO see what jew
ko1o she would wear at Mrs. Law
&Sonce's ball Every lady present seem
FSd like jewelers. display for Mrs.
31Gackays benefit meaning to imply:
kHWeIl, you may possess jewels un-
k1pA. but we are not quite out OF the
kxunning"
At last the name of Mrs. Mackay
$fWns announced. Everybody turned,
E0xpecting to see a walking Golconda;
4 lastead there appeared young.
xSAArming woman, dressed in white
SrWithout q single jewel"
Martin describes how Consuelo,
EDnchess of Manchester. a penniless
k01v1 before marriage. conquered So
43e1y by her charm and her fascinat.
Eng personality.
"COnsuelo told me on one occasion
when the late King dined with her
n &oho was very hard up) the dinner
EXnS practically provided by her
sHlends who contributed plates for the
\ occnsi0n. H. r. H. expressed himself
R1edghted with the dinner, and what's
snore, he added with a smile, T know
E1xnctly where all the dishes came
ksom, for each lady has sent one from
E4Ao service l always like when dine
0t her house."