| Show Th J lE mm f Q r-ft r For So s Surprising Preference of f the Leiter jf I v 1 1 m i H Heir Heiress ss for the Companionship JJ i Y P lf of Toil Stained Comrades F FAI ft t tin I AI w J i A 1 D in Mines and Stockyards d s to jf p fr f i l Chicago's Ch s S Smart mar t Set Sep S e t 1 i f f y On the left f i IL k Lad Y C Cn Y n I Iy If i in as a she fashion fashion- looks cr t f able draw draw- drawing ing room room-a view of her t h ha a t Chi Chi- ft tt I r o cago failed society to get If r 0 Z Jj I Lady Cynthia Mosley I A daughter of the She late Lord Cur Cur- Curzon Curzon Cur L zon who as viceroy of India ruled souls recently spent five days in Chicago where her mother the former Mary Leiter had been a belle bene Chicago society had to content itself with reading of the activities es of Mary Leiters Leiter's daughter Not once did she lunch din dine or take uke tea in the homes of the socially prominent I nent not once did she take her place in Chicago drawing rooms as the city's distinguished distinguished dis- dis distinguished guest o of the t the e not moment once did she in n th the handsome apartment belonging to Major Frederic McLaughlin and his wife the former Irene Castle lent to them for their use during their V visit t stay at home to receive calls from Chicago's smart set The only persons indeed who saw the woman whose early childhood was spent in the palace in India heiress to one of ai the greatest fortunes of the n world were factory hands mine work work- workers workers ers ers the poor in settlements and those who make the betterment of humanity their life work The beautiful Lady Cynthia turned a cold shoulder r to Chicago society but feet down an Illinois mine she lent lenta a friendly hand to help the miners push a pit car out of the way and washed the coal grime from back of her ears after the trip in the same wash basin used by bythe bythe hythe the miners The Japanese butler at the McLaughlin lin apartment repeated monotonously over the telephone a hundred times a aday aday day day that Lady Cynthia was out and wouldn't be he back until evening that she most busy when society leaders eager to capture the titled English social social- socialists for their dinner table or drawing room or honestly eager to entertain Mary Letters Letter's daughter attempted to get getis is in touch with her Imme Immediately tely upon their arrival in Chi Chi- Chicago Chicago Chi Chicago cago the telephone began its insistent t summons but Lady Cynthia and her dashing young husband Captain Oswald Mosley whose socialistic politics have 1 been adopted by his w wife e were at the headquarters of the Socialist Party of i America on Chicago's West Side Callers at noon were informed that the visiting were that out out that possibly they were at that moment at the headquarters of the Womans Woman's Trade Union League Later that they would be going through the plant of a great mail order house and that toward evening they probably would be at null Hull House Chicago's famous fa- fa famous mons settlement founded by its still stillmore stillmore more famous Jane Addams amid the dirt and squalor of South Halstead Street not Hot house flowers forced to a quick blooming in anticipation of Lady Cynthia's Cynthia's Cynthia's thias thia's arrival Chicago's best table silver highly polished in preparation for for for- formal formal formal mal dinner parties hurriedly purchased toilettes all nil were wasted And society women who had bad hurried back from win win- winter winter ter resorts and spas to be in town during Lady Cynthia's visit sadly returned to their playgrounds without having even seen her Readers of the society columns of the tho daily press their whetted for tales taJes of a great reception in Mrs Waller Borden Bordens Borden's mansion on Lake Shore Drive or a dinner at Mrs Arthur Meekers Meeker's or ora a tea perhaps at the home of the popular popular popular lar George F P Porters read only of the comments on the labor situa- situa While Chica Chica- Chicago's Chicago's Chicago's gos go's richand rich and F fashion fashion- able fashionable w waited a i t ed vainly for a chance to en- en entertain entertain en entertain Lady C y nth i ia a she z found keen en- en enjoyment end en enjoyment d in a ato atour i to tour u r of the Chicago stock stock- stockyards stockyards r yards Here she is shown shaking hands with v James Lonergan who has been cutting up hogs for forty-five forty years and told her lady lady- ship hip more than she ever knew before about pork chops tion of their prediction of an earl early so- so soe socialist so socialist e triumph in England and of the standard of living Jiving among the working classes in England It was difficult for the curious even to tell how the wealthy English aristocrat was attired In the news photographs she either wore a faded slicker sUcker over her Smart costume in preparation for the trip through the mines or or a white packers packer's smock as she started on a trip through the stockyards to see how a na- na nation na- na nation na nation tion makes its pork chops And although Mrs Rockefeller Mc- Mc McCormick's McCormick's Mc-Cormick's Mc Cormick's handsome stone mansion knew her not nor Mrs Augustus Peabodys Peabody's smart drawing room and none o of the city's crop of debutantes eager to assist at functions in honor of the English beauty had opportunity to do so 50 Lady Cynthia and her husband spent one en- en entire entire en entire tire day in Milwaukee Wisconsin with Victor Berger Derger Socialist Congressman and his daughter Mrs Colin CoUn Welles They were the guests of the National Socialist Party at a dinner at the Mor- Mor Morrison Morrison rison Mor-rison rison Hotel where Lady Cynthia made a arousing arousing arousing rousing good speech When they did spend one purely social afternoon it was spent not with society's favorites b but in chatting over wartime recollections recollections with Dr William Larkin Chicago physician and William Giaver former fullback on Georgia Tech's famous golden tornado football team The two men were officers during the World War and wounded in action were taken to the hospital in Surrey where Lady Cynthia 3 Curzon was working day and night as nurse Almost the only time Lady Cynthia was in a home during her stay was when she stepped into a miners miner's cottage at atLa atLa atLa La Salle Illinois after the trip through the Union mine The titled visitors desire to rub shoulders shoulders ders with ordinary folk expressed again when they made no eha or drawing room reservations for tor the trip down down- downstate state down state to the mines was defeated by Conductor Con Con- Conductor Conductor ductor Walter Bruce Druce on the Rock flock Island train they took to La Salle The redheaded Scotchman introducing introducing introducing ing himself as a Highlander from Ayr Ayr- Ayr- Ayr Ayrshire Ayrshire shire bowed low to Lady Cynthia Cnthia cap in capin hanU and insisted that she and her husband occupy a drawing room when he found them headed beaded for a day coach Its a 11 great pleasure to have bave such distinguished guests on my train ho said Thank you so much mach said Lady Cynthia Cynthia thia this extending he- he hand and then she sho husband just outside the car door talking to the press presa pre sa t 1 J rt r It R f ti Y 11 r os v f Y 4 v 1 1 rL lU i 7 h Y r t Y ik 0 A oi 4 i o c cip J ip i r Miss Betty 1 Marshall one 1 t of Chicago's de- de debutantes 0 t butantes who y yso were so disappointed by Lady Cynthia's refusal of all so- so society society invitations Oh Tom here heres here's a man from home Captain Mosley sixth baronet of his line Une shook hands with the Scotch con con- conductor conductor ductor The three chatted for ten minutes about home and even that short inter inter- interview interview view was more than any Chicago society leader Jeader could boast of at the conclusion of the visit to the city where Lady Cynthia's grandfather founded his fortune The trip to the mines was due to the tho fact act that there are mines in the district from which Lady Cynthia Cnthia is running for Parliament on the Labor ticket Stoke Stoke- Trent on-Trent I want to compare conditions in inthe inthe the American and the English mines she he explained o W f k i f F Ft sk s r t to t 7 0 o I t tV tH 00 Y f 1 fp- fp 1 V H A t I t 0 t t I tX tA 1 o ti t iJ J C TF p i A X y x 1 i M r t y i f-f f wt Ji Jit t A oY r-r r ol P Lady Cynthia Mosley after leaving the blackness and T grime of an Illinois coal coalmine mine cleaning up in one of the same wash basins the miners use On the right her a husband Captain Oswald Mosley waiting for his turn to scrub his dirty face Sia Si a r t fOH u jj 3 n w B a i ii or i Y k A AS S q o Y a cC w wa a Ap Conditions among the miners and a n d particularly among the pottery work work- workers workers workers ers must be improved she said And that is why we are giving such special attention to the American centers of similar industries We Wo visited about in one community in Trenton New Jersey and we plan to make a more de- de detailed de detailed tailed study of conditions in East Liverpool Liver Liver- Liverpool Liverpool pool Ohio where the tho problems of the workers will I 1 fancy be much the same as at home in Stoke Trent Stoke Trent on-Trent For the trip state down-state Lady Cynthia wore a smart brown tweed suit and a jersey and crepe do chine jumper to match Her IIer hat was a simple untrimmed brown felt model Although her jewel cases are overflowing with rare gems the legacy of her mother Lady Cynthia Cnthia wears only a plain gold wedding ring and above it a similar gold band marked in blue enamel Benjamin Denjamin Mos Mos- Mosley Mosley ley 1746 It has been handed down In my hus hus- husband's hus- hus husband's husband's bands band's family for generations she said said Arrived at La Salle she pulled a faded yellow slicker over her costume donned a miners miner's cap p with a carbide lamp at- at attached attached at attached and the captain pulled a suit of over his tweeds ds Grasping the overhead rods of the cage they descended feet beneath the Illinois River and seated in the bot bot- bottom bottom tom of a pit c car car r were taken the mile trip to the face of the mine There the sixth baronet of crawled on his stomach to be able to talk to a naked half grimy miner without in- in interrupting in interrupting the latter's Jatter's work and Lady Cynthia on her knees beside Under Under- Underground Underground Underground ground Superintendent Adam Currie and Assistant Foreman Chandellier swapped information on American mines and mining min min- mining mining ing for that on the mines of England and of India She displayed an intelligent knowledge of mining and of mining conditions and andon andon andon on the way out up ahead in the dim passageway with the miners she lent a hand to push a pit car r to the point where the pit donkey was waiting to haul it through the entry So when she and the captain departed no wonder the miners voted them the two best sports that ever had ridden a coal car or washed the tho grime from behind their ears Next they visited a miners miner's cottage This is much larger than any miners miner's cottage at home commented Lady Cynthia Cynthia Cynthia thia looking about the neat room four four cottage with its gramophone as she sho termed it and its electric lights At home there is usually only one room in which the family eats sleeps and uses as a living room The bed is a bunk in the wall Vall and yet somehow yet somehow it seems to me that there is something there that is lacking here The English home is brightened with bits of china that have been handed down do for genera genera- generations generations generations with pieces of handwork that add adda a touch of hominess and quaintness so that in spite of its and poverty it has charm and individuality On the other hand tho the English miners miner's wife is too ready to accept con con- con conditions to to think that what was good goodenough goodenough goodenough enough for her mother and her grand grand- grandmother grandmother mother is good enough for her In the evening Lady Cynthia gave her views on Socialism at the Socialist ban ban- banquet ban ban- banquet banquet and predicted an early triumph for Socialism in England Our English victory will win buck you 00 up In case youre you're down hearted which of course youre you're not she told the American Ameri Ameri- American American can Socialists You in America are in the pioneer stage Its It's grand to be a pioneer but its it's awfully lly hard work The time must come w wen when en there will willbe willbe willbe be but one class Captain Mosley said The expressed a desire to meet Clarence Darrow and Jane Jano Addams Lady Cynthia with the zeal of a Social Social- t P b I k F FA A 1 Joseph Joseh Leiter who is is charged by his titled English relatives with mismanagement of the Leiter estate C and the restraint of a titled lady Jady spoke of her two children old year year five Vivien Elizabeth and the bo boy aged two When Whet we get back we will have been away from them three months That's the time we were away last Jast year when we visited India and its it's as long Jong as Ican I can stick it away from them It had been heralded that Lady Cynthia's Cynthia's thias thia's real mission in Chicago was to participate in the legal battle that re- re recently recently re recently began in the Chicago courts in which the Countess of Suffolk Lady Cynthia's aunt aunt and other relatives in England charge that Joseph Leiter her uncle mismanaged the Leiter estate Lady Cynthia denied this I shall not be 00 here hero when the suit starts she said It was begun by my aunt and I 1 am interested in only a very minor way We sail for England a few days das before the day set for the suit be- be begins be begins gins If It my lawyer wishes me to make any depositions I 1 may do so but I proba proba- probably probably probably bly will wil not even see him During their Chicago visit the did not once set foot in any of the city's smarter hotels or shops Lady Cynthia did not even visit the great Marshall Field store although in the days when Chicago was a tiny village struggling gling to lift Jit itself out of tho the prairie mud her grandfather had been half owner half owner of the firm of Field Leiters Leiter's the original inal store Id like Jike to have seen the Field Mu- Mu Museum Museum Mu Museum seum commented Lady Cynthia before her departure Id also like to have hae motored along the north shore of Lake Lako 1 Michigan I 1 understand the scenery and the villages are very beautiful there Well well we'll do that the next time we come wont won't we Tom I 1121 bi r John N r w If be bo i 1 s i |
