The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1879-11-08
WelsI, Rose with Jersey Lilly.

80 i
The fierce light that beats about
beanty's thrsne has suddenly been
focussed. through the means Of scur-
rilous London paper, upon the two
reigning bellies of the metropolis. Mrs.
Langtry is the daughter of the Dean Of
Jersey, an Island which is famous for
pretty people, although it had not before
attained the distinction OF furnishing
London with the beauty officially &C.
cepted as such. Her earlyl ife was pass
ed entirely in the isle of her birth. and
and there seemed no reason why she
should ever have left it, until one day an
adventurous widower, who had already
taken one wife from Jersey, came thither
again and carried off Miss LIE Breton as
his second. They came to London with
out exciting any great enthusiasm or be-
coming known to many members of So
ciety until 1876. Then, through con-
currence of fortuitous circumstances,
Mrs. Ilangtry was seen, admired and
invented as beauty by certain amateurs,
who immediately sounded her praises
throughout the town. When the town
came to look at her, it found she was in
deed beautiful. She possessed wonder
full eyes Of lirnpid transparent blue,
which always wore winning expression.
She was observed to be extremely modest
in her dress, very quiet and 1nassuming
in her manner, and discreet IN all her
actions. Jealousy was disarmed; admi-
ration increased, and Mrs. Langtry be-
came one Of those sights which the
Spring Captain yearns to see, and for
which the country cousins make long
/ pilgrimages by railway. It seems but
4 yesterday" says recent number of the
| PANTY Fair, .wlien as bride she ap
ipeared in the Park and set ten thousand
| tongues wagging. Since then she has
played foremost part in the battle of
| life, and this brayely and we'll You are
spellbound by her ineffable sweetness
before you have exchanged hardly q
dozen words with her. Every well-bred
woman is of course free from gene, but
this one is gifted with delicious manner,
simple and sympathetic as that where
with mentally, we endow Mignon, and
she talks at once so prettily and so
musically that you are insensiIly
/ impressed with the idea of her
absolute sincerity. The bright, ringing
treble; the light, springy step; the happy
| halcyon view OF life characteristic of
girlhood, are still hers. Above all, she
is kindness itself incarnate. At Glasgow,
where that goes without the saying
she was cynosure, she astonished the
canny Scotch by her generous inn
partiality. The plain and unattractive
partner claimed her hand in the ball
room, and he was not refused, though
Adonis stood at her elbow awaiting his
chance. Lily-hke in every fibre, she has
| preserved an exalted reputation for
womanly virtue, and this, although she
/ she has been hattered and followed,
! earessed and made much of, more than
any living woman. She has remained,
! however, the same, true to the gentle
| emblem forever hers, the Jersey Lilyr'
Lady Virginia Sanders is entitled to
the gratitude of London society for in
Producing to it her niece, Miss Fitzpat-
rick, who subsequently married Corn
wallis West of Euthin Castle. Ruthin
1 Castle is somewhere in Wales and there
/ fore not fitting abiding place for q
beauty whose duty it is to be everywhere
in London. To London, accordingly
Mrs. CORVALLIS West went, ard she was
greeted by an admiration almost sufficient
to console her for the most prolonged
absence from her Welsh castle. Her face
is that of charming and peculiar style OF
beauty and has always moved mankind
more than the most regular features. She
has very rich complexion on which an
occasional sreckle stamps certificate of
fineness and thereby adds to the charm
of the general effect A splendid head
of rippling hair which used to be very
long until she cut it into boyish curls,
! clusters framewise about her face. pro-
ducing an effect which many London
beauties have sought to initiate, but
which mono has approached. She is inn
pulsive, original, daring and says upon
occasions the sprightliest things, and to
her it was given, some little time, to
throw the royal ball into dismay by an
untoward fainting fit which was at once
elevated to the rank of social event
She dresses generally in a careless and
sometimes in startling fashion. She is
small IN stature, of an admirable form,
and rides with q certain dash, both to
hounds and in Rottenrow