PEERESS AS SALESWOMAN.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 7914, 4 August 1917, Page 1 (Supplement)

PEERESS AS SALESWOMAN.

Lady Colebroko is doing war work in the ci*t,v of New York. She acts as saleswoman in a millinery shop in Fifth Avenue, gives her wage,si to the Red Cross, and supplies the other saleswomen with luncheons cooked by herself. Married to Lord Oolebrooke in 1889. she is a member of the Paget family, and grand-daughter of the first Marquess of Anglesey. Her father, General Lord Alfred Henry Paget, who died in 1888, was for many years Equerry and Clerk-Marshal to Queen Victoria. Lord and Ladv Colehrooko are grandparents. Their elder daughter manned the Earl of Kimberley’s nephew, Mr. Edward Hulsey Paeke, in 1909. AN UMBRELLA SCHEME. Have you heard the latest about umbrel’ias? “According to a trade paper,” writes “ Bystander” in the Co-opera-tive News,’ “in America a co-operative scheme has been originated called the National Umbrella Service, formed to do away with the worry and < f owning an umbrella. The idea is to have 5000 station; throughout New York, where, for B>' a year, a subscriber can call for an umbrolki when the rain comes on, or leave it when the rain stop,’. About 1170 stations ore already men.” The advertisement announces : “When through with your umbrella. or von don’t want to drag it hround with you, band it in at a service station and forget it.”