Evening star., 1920-11-21
WORK
TO SHOW BRITAIN
Enter Fields of Labor,
Learn to Like 1t and
Make Good.

Cross Atlantic Gable Service TO The Star
LONDON. November 2o.-Many titled
women of England. ladies by nature
nurture and name, are now practical
business women. Moreover. they are
making a success of their ventures.
The hotel world. the workshop, the
fashion salon and even the flm IN
dustry can show names that stand
high on the title roll of England.
Today there is not only dignity, but
daintiness in labor. Following the
hard apprenticeship of the war, when
the highest as well as the lowest IN
the land performed the hardest ana
rudest tasks. my ladies have rolled
up their silken sleeves and are show
ing the world they have Learned to
labor and to walton others.
The business activities Of Niscount-
ess Rhondda are widely known. In
heriting her fathers position and re-
sponsibilities, she is director of
many commercial companies-over
twenty in number. Also she is presl :
dent Of the WomeR's Industrial
League and of the Women's Efficiency
Club-two organizations which are
concerned mainly with WomenS ac-
tivities in the business world. She
may be described. in fact. as super
business woman.
Lady Byng Milliner.
To be leader Of fashion is the as
piration of many smart women, put
to make business of directing the
caprices of that tickle dame. Nine. La
Mode. is a task that would daunt
many. Yet such is the self-lmposed
task of Lady Duff Gordon. a tltled
mil;iner is Lady Rachel Byng. An en-
;erprising titled shopkeeper is the
Countess of Limerick. who began with
a stock of antique Irish silver. Water
ford glass. china, lace. pictures and
furniture. Lady Lirnerick's trade also
includes house decorating and tur-
nishing. A successful titled milliner
is Lady Bingham, wife of Maj. Gen.
Sir Cecil Bingham. Her West END
hat shop has attracted quite mum per
Of fashionable clients. Gertrude, Lady
Decies, is one of the few peeresses
who have not. SO far, made a success
of their ventures. She began business
in the hotel and rabbit line. She
failed, but hopes one day to try again.
Poet and TOymaker.
Lady Margaret Sackville. famous as
a poet. is also a producer OF painted
toys anu, very idny
books A titled hotel proprietor is Lady
Honeywood, who. a little while ago
opened her third hotel. There are other
society beauties who are unofficial own
ers Of hotels. just as there are titled
millincrs and dressmikers who carry
on business under different pseudonyms,
as ''Vanite.'' Nine. de Courcy,
Vera" and "AIachenka.''
Lady Evelyn Ward. daughter Of the
Earl Of t.rne and sister-in-iaW Of the
Earl of Dudley, was once i part owner
in fashionable London business and
later on opened a millinery shop in Blon
street, Toronto, Canada. The most re-
cent venture is that Of Lady Parsons,
wife of the famous marine engineer, Sir
Charles Parsons, who has just started
an engineering business for women.
Would BE Film Star.
Lady Miles Stapleton has chosen
more arduous work than is generally
imagined in becoming a film star.
while the Countess Of Bectives servant
bureau proved a veritable boon to the
distressed housekeepers of Belgravia.
Indeed the list of titled women in
business might be extended almost
Indefinitely.
The Duchess of Abercorn used to de-
light in being referred to as "the
Irish dairymaid" Lady Warwick, too,
it will be remembered. staggered so
ciety by starting business in Bond
street. Her sister, Lady Algernon
Gordon -LenuoN. established fruit
bottling business in OSfordslire.
Lady Essex opened a laundry; Lady
Aileen Wyndham-Q -Quin started a vlo-
let farm at Adare Manor. while the
Marchioness Of Butte established a
small lace factory at Corstorphine,
near Edinburgh. All these instances,
however, created mild interest com
pared to that caused by the recent an
nouncement that the Marchioness of
Queensberry had opened a pair Of sau-
sage shops.