HOW THE UPPER TEN LIVE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1708, 11 June 1884, Page 2

HOW THE UPPER TEN LIVE.

_ According to a high authority, tho life of the modem aristocacy of En" 1 - land is on this wise. The young mon have brandy and soda carried to their bedrooms in the morning before they get up. The broakfast table is very profusely laden, and claret on the side--I'oai'd. The ladies join in cigarette smoking after dinner. Money is lost and won at poker and 100. After the ladies liavo retired the serious business begins with the gentlemen in the smolnig room, whore the "gro«" bottles aro laid out, .£IOOO a'yeris noWmco.nmon for a lady for dress. Ladies change their dresses throe times of an evening, and twice as many times in the courso of the day. Marriages are decreasing and families decaying. £2OOO is OM'isiomilly 'spent on flowers for a single ball. In some instances the expenditure on cigars amounts to £o a day. The ugly cart-wheel bouquets carried by ladies and flunkies cost from thro guineas each upwards, These facts are not made public by some gashing and billious foreigner. They aro r.ot the inventions of some democratic enemy of the aristocracy. They are told clearly and frankly in the National Review by Lady John Manners, who intimately knows the subject upon which she writes, and would not write a word that is not true. The appearance of titled men in the Bankruptcy Court, the sale of picture galleries and libraries, the splitting up of estates, the keeping of tradesmen out of their money, aitiA to bo explained by the serious slib v merits mado in this article. Lady John Manners says there has been a change for the worse during tho last fifty years, and that we are increasingly luxurious and ostentatious,