The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-19
ECONOMY AMONG GREAT FASHIONABLE American PeereSseS Are Not Feeling Pinch So Much QUEEN SETS THE PACE Has Only Simple Fare at Buckingham Palace-Motor Cars Are Becom-
 ing Real Luxury-Lord Yer
 nOn's Death Truly Sad
QUEEN SETS THE PACE

London, December 5.-(SpeciaIl l-In all
 truth the nation is beginning to feel the
 financial pinch of the war and nowhere
 is it getting worse than amongst the
 peers and the peeresses,' and everyone is
 starting in to save. Some of the lucky
 Americans don't feel it much yet, for
 although they, like the rest of us, have
 to pay the heavy income taxes, which are going to be heavier yet, their in- comes, which come from the States where everyone is so prosperous these days, according to all we hear, are not
 affected the way British incomes are
 All sorts of economies are being ntro- duced. Buckingham palace sets the pace and it's said that Queen Mary now has
 only the simplest sort of food on the royal table. So it is nearly everywhere else. In plenty of great houses margar- inc has taken the place of butter Elec- tric light and gas bills are being cut down; in fact, the great ladies of the kingdom are going through the same sort of fight to save as the poorest people of
 London.
 Lady Naylor-Leyland was saving the other day:
 Il wonder how many of us will have a private mortor car in another year"
 There is something in that. In the first place, it is more costly than ever to run a car these days, with tires and petrol rising constantly in price. Then it's diff fiicult to get chauffeurs they are so much needed in the war Add to this the de- mana for motor cars for the wounded who fill the streets of London and you'll realize that owning motor car and run hing it is a pretty difficult thing, and get ting more so all the time. This econo- mixing is popular, too, and everyone prac- tices it. For those who never had any thing. anyhow it's quite q blessing. for now they don't have to worry about keep ing up their end and making a good show ing. Economy now Jisn't a thing to be ashamed of, It used obe and if we wanted to be saving we had to resort to all sorts of artful little lodges to cover it up. It's quite open now, though. The other Gay | was in the provisions de- partment of great shop in London. In came Princess Henry of Battepherg, who deals there She gave an order for five
 pounds of margarine the substitute for butter, and sailed out again. l haven't the slightest doubt it was for her own
 table, as well as for her servants. I've
 heard of one dukes household where but ter isn't used at all any more
 You'd be cut dead for life, even if you belonged to the bluest blooded families of the nation, if you ever got caught at eX- traVagance such as before the war no one would have paid the slightest atten- ton to. But economy doesn't extend all ! through the social scale day or so ago was in another provision shop when a woman, obviously of the working class, came in. l heard the girl shop assistant | trying to sell her margarine.
 1 No. thanks, Miss, said the eusto- mer, my old man wouldn't spoil his n- side with this newfangled stuff. The best 1 for him or nothng.'
 1 That sort of thing is due to the working
 classes, some of them making d lot of extra money from munition, work
 Cutting down the lighting bills has re- i suited in disaster in one or two houses 1 l know, where dark starwaYs have led l to pretty serious accidents. Some people have adopted scheme of using eec- tricity and gas in only one room of the house, and lighting the rest with candles. 1 People are riding on the motor -omni- l busses more than ever before-I mean real people, dukes and duchesses and so on Someone was making up list the other day of people who a year ago wouldn't be seen dead in a bus; they'd have their own car or hired one, and as TOT rId- ing in the stuffy tube, they wouldn't think of such thing. This ist-maker has spotted a couple of dukes, three or four duchesses and no end of other peo- pie of high degree who had been seen stop busses, just like Arry and 'Arriett Shes what you might call Ameri- can aristocrat, said a dowager duchess in describing Lady Cynthia Curzon, Lord Curzcn of kedleston's second girl, who is now at the flapper stage Without ever meaning it she gives you the inn pression of what a young duchess ought | fDh ha. ifa1A Cba hoe ~I,s many of our royal princesses might envy. with her splendid erect back and her finely poised head and delicate little features. She owes all this to her mother the lovely Mary Letter before her mar riage. who asked her husband during her fatal illness to see that his girls on no account forgot to take their phy- sical exercises every day of their lives. For you know, said she. life is noth- ing for a girl unless she's beautiful and it's the duty of her parents to leave no stone unturned to develop in every pos