Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-04-12
MRS. RONALDS.

"Ny Face IL My Fortune, SIR, she Sstd.S
Washington Correspondence Cincinnati Ga
zette.
In one of Olive Logan's recent and always
interesting letters, she mentions Mrs. Pierre
Lorrilard Ronalds as such celebrity in Lon
don society just now. The latest fashion,
able foible in the beau monde of the English
metropolis is the worship of feminine beauty,
woman's face, if pretty enough, giving her
entree into the most select circles. gen.
tleman who knew Mrs. Ronalds as Fanny
Carter told me few days ago of his
experience as q youth of 1S with
this heartless firt. She was Boston
girl Of no family, but of great personal
beauty, and extremely fascinating. He met
her the summer she captured the wealthy
New Yorker, Mr.. Ronalds, and fell victim
to her Crcelike charms. "Oh, the money
spent in bouquets, over whose fresh and
novel devices I laid awake nights, thinking
| how might surprise her into admiration of
my versatile taste! I sent her crowns and
palaces, wreaths and harps, pillars and ships,
and everything known to floral art. I took
her riding in my elegant turnout, drawn by
four spanking black mares, driven tandem
by myself, meantime, gotten up in the
latest New York style, light gloves and tiie
SWEETEST of white reins and silver trimmings
to the harness. What fool I
made of myself over that girl,
and she engaged all the time to old Ron
aids. The only solace about the whole
matter was that dozen other men were in
the same boat with me. She accepted our
attentions, graciously allowed us to spend
our fortunes on her, and then married the
kl,aSl I'D Von BOD
don't regret it, assure you'll mean tho
being thIown,-for she made Ronalds very
unhappy, and was the most unnatural
mother ever knew. She had two beauti-
full children, which she absolutely seemed to
hate. They were always in the way she
would say impatie1tly. There were days
together when she would not set foot
in the nursery, or see the faces
of her beautiful children, be-
cause the noise upsets ones nerves
: so,' and she didn't like to be rufied for the
9 day by hearing that one baby had the Group
9 during the night, and another the collie. II
r really seemed to me she acted relieved when
the little ones were one after another called
: to the home of many mansions to receive the
J tender Shepherds care, and the love they
! never received upon earth. She never shee
d a tear or expressed a regret, or wore an out
g ward sign or woe. S0o Seeme1 TO reel as /
one burden we're off her shoulders. a
q least, and she could do a ittl
3 more as she pleased than ever before. Sh
10 had voice of wonderful natural power an
e sweetness, and IN her living so much abroa
r. she had done everything in her power t
n cultivate it. She is past 40 now, and, al
as though her startling beauty has abated, he
lg voice has not lost one note of its charm
D. New Workers won't receive her into their sc
g cial circles, but more liberal London make
" GOODIES of her. She does not live with he
husband, but that is nothing against her
b. the estimation of the nobility, for of all tt
e. women have ever met in my many wande
Ill ings, think the ultra fashionabIes of Il
ed London beau monde are the most reckle
ng and INSCRIPTIONS, and-shall l say it-wi
en- the fastest proclivities.'
RS When Mrs. Ronalds was in Paris, she We
he the admiration of Louis Napoleon by b.
lrs exquisite skating ut the rink. So wro
of Olive Logan, and when the emperor ask
"a permission, without introduction, to ska
III with her and hold her hand, she repi'
or, that she would grant the favor providing
by would invite her to his Monday evenings
the Tnileries! And that is the way she G
led INTO the French court circles, where she il
ng mediately became the centre of an admiri
pit. circle, and she has preserved this remal
r. able prestige wherever she has been-o1
I'd, side of America.