How the Upper Ten Live

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 74, 3 June 1884, Page 3

How the Upper Ten Live

According 1 to a big-h authority, the life of the modern ari stocracy of England is on this wise. The young men have brandy and soda carried to their bedrooms in the morninjr b-fore they get up. The breakfast-fable is profuwly laden, anrl claret on the sideboard. Ladies join in cigarette smo'---ing after dinnor. Money is lost and won at poker and 100. After the ladies have retired the serious business begins with the gentlemen in the smoking-room, wher« the grng bottles arc laid out. £1000 a year fur dresx is not uncommon for a lady Ladies change their dresses three time* of an evening, and twice as many times in the course of the day. • Marriages are decreasing and families d<-cayin»\ £2000 ia occasionally spent. .on flowers for a single ball. In some instances the expenditure on cigars ainom.ts to £5 a day. The ugly cart-wheel bouquets curried by ladies and flunkies cost from three guinea*; each upwards ; These facts are not ma^e public by some gushing and billions foreigner. ■ They are no*, t'.ie inventions of som<democratic enewiy of the aristocrat '4 hey are told clearly and frankly in the National -Review by Lady John Manners, who intimat -ly knows th subject updn v which she Writes; ;nn.; would not "write a word that is not true The appearance of title.! moi: in the Bankrujitoy Court, the sale of picture galleries and libraries, tin | spUttmg,u|* »f estates, 'the: k'-epi jig oh trade c tnert ior years out of their 1 uioWey . are all to be explained by the seriou- 1 , statements mude in this article. L:>dy John Manners says clure has been a change for the worse miring the last fifty- years, and that we are increasingly luxurious and ostentatious.