Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1913 — LOVE DUKE’S AMERICAN WIFE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LOVE DUKE’S AMERICAN WIFE

Chief Interest of Duchess of Marlborough Is the Welfare of Humbler Ciasaea.

London. —"It a vote were taken among the poor as to who is the most popular lady in London, Queen Alexandra probably would be first, but the duchess of Marlborough a close second, for the interest which she takes in the welfare of the humbler classes is not spasmodic. It'has become her chief interest in life and, like a genuine American, she insists on doing as much personally as he time will permit, Instead of following the easier English way of doing good by proxy. Recently she/has been very much taken up with the working of "Albion

House,” established in the heart of Kensington laundrydom, to help poor washerwomen and other humble female toilers. This house was until quite recently a saloon, but is now a

residential club and restaurant run by the National Association of Women’s Lodging Houses. The duchess dropped into the club the other day to have afternoon tea with the Inmates and greatly enjoyed a large cup of tea and two “sinkers,” supplied at the reasonable price of one penny. When she went' away there was not one of the woman or girls who would not go through fire or water for the American duchess.

Duchess of Marlborough.