The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-08-13
AS soon as the daughters could be

y their childhood, for the vast city, wher
If they would be unknewipg and ur
s. known" they started for the great me-
# tropolis. They arrived there in June
i that month whose delights the tyran
i Fashion has compelled the aristocracy c
e Britain's isles to forego, and oblige
them to remain in the city when the
would fain be reposing beneath tn
: shade of those gigantic trees that wav
proudly over the ancestral homes of En-
glands naughty nobility.
Matthew Cunning, willing to ful6
his wife's wishes as much as possible
took lodgings in fashionable hotel, and
ere many weeks had elapsed London was
in an uproar. Who were those angels
that had suddenly appeared as from
Paradise a? The "furore," as Horace
Walpole calls it, was unparalleled.
The young mobiles, whose tastes were
satiated with the usual London bellies,
begged their stately mammas to leave
their cards upon our heroines, if they
wished them ever to assist at their
monthly balls; and if the aristocratic
parent refused, upon, the plea of
their being, nobodies," the youthful
peers declare dthey would repair to the
club whenever their mothers and Sis
ters particularly desired their escort.
And so it went; day after day, week
after week, the gate of the hotel was
thronged with England's proudest and
noblest, and the eyes of the fair r.
Iandaises were almost dazzled by the
array of brilliant names, whose cards
were hourly sent to them and even
Matthew began to think that his wife
was not as foolish as he had once deem
ed her. From the duchess to the baro-
nets lady, from the peress, who boasted
of decent from the Blantanenets, to the
parve',as of yesterday, all alike .strove
to do them honor; and more than once
has the proud duchess, in whose veins
flowed the blood of kings, found her
rooms deserted on the night of her most
magnificent tete because why ? she had
neglected to invite the Cummings and,
to her modification, she would hear
that the rooms of the rich bankers
wife were crowded the same evening by
the elite of the nobility, and the magnet
of attraction was the fair sisters These
few solitary exceptions at length gave
way before the overwhelming tide of ex-
citement that was rushing on like
mighty torrent, and the usually invinci-
BILE aristocratic walls of Almack's fell |
without a blow, before the irresistible
power of beauty. And now had their
mother been alive, she might indeed
have thought her fairy dream fully re-
allied.
No person who was not a spectator
can hardly conceive of the rage for the
fair sisters that was evinced by the fash
ionable world. Walpole, in his letters,
speaks of it as the most extraordinary
thing that happened for centuries. Sci,
wyn, the famous wit was devoted
friend of the elder sister, and evinced
it for many year. Andnow came the
crowniDg scene in the sleeper's deeam
The Duke of Hamilton, one of the most
courted and admired of the unmarried
mobiles, and at whose approach manag-
ing mammas famed themselves violent
ly, SO as to appear unconcerned, and
the unconscious daughters looked down
smelt of their bouquets, whose move
ments were watched by many glitter
ing eye and anxious heart he, the young
and naughty Duke of Hamilton and
Brandon, was vanquished by the charms
of the young Elizabeth and before the
end Of the season, the ducal coronet was
N reality placed upon those shining
,rcsses. In the course of fortnight /
rom her sisters marriage, Louisa mar {
led the Marquis of Coventry
The rest of their career is known to i
IL the world Who has not heard of 7
he shoemaker who made..upward of two t
,uineas BY exhibiting slipper he was b
making for lady Coventry at penny t
Iead ? And also read, with amazement, s
f thousand persons who sat up all P
light around the doors of a hotel to see P
he Duchess of Hamilton enter her car n
iage at an early hour in the morning ? t
Who would have ever drempt that n
be daughters of an humble Irish far 81
Ter should thus become an integral Fl
art of that naughty aristocracy of En- W
land But SO it was, and the bright 81
aired Lizzie, who reclined beneath the h
illow, hushed to sleep by the music of b
er mothers spinningwheel, lived to be- Ii
,me the wife of two Dukes and the eC
other of four? For after the death
her first husband, she married the m
uke of Argyle.) d'
There is scarcely an instant on rdcord, =
hich more clearly proves that at truth u
oftentimes stranger than fiction" than ii
10 history of the motherless daugh- ca
rs of Matthew Gunning.-Lady's vi
Wreath. We
ES Scolding never did any body 10
,od. It hurts the child it hurts the