Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1892 — An Aristocratic Market Gardener. [ARTICLE]

An Aristocratic Market Gardener.

Pretty nearly half England’s nobility has gone into trade,of some sort. The Duke of Fife is turning his land into bank stock. Lord Randolph Churchill is a special correspondent—and the name is legion of those noble dames who sell everything from butter to bonnets—and not always by proxy. The so famous Lady Brooks ruus a show in connection with her Eastern charity work, where you can buy nearly woman can put on from the crown of her head to the sole of her foot. Her betters in birth and breeding help themselves in lowlier ways. One, the sister of the wife of the Duke of Wellington and daughter of a Marquis whoso blood is of the best, lives just out of London in a rambling old house that has half an acre of garden behind it. Small as is the bit of earth, she gets from it a good share of her maintenance. She points out her asparagus bed, crowded with tender shoots, and says: “Is it not tempting?—but I cannot afford to eat it. Every stalk is engaged to Covent Garden Market.where it fetches enough money to clothe me and my girls.”—[New York Sun.