The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-23
WELSH ROSE AND JERSEY LILY.
Pen Pictures of the Two Reigning
London Beauties.
New York Herald

London Beauties.
New York Herald
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 furnish
ing London with the beauty officially ac-
cepted as such. Her early life was passed
entirely in the isle of her birth, and there
seemed no reason why she should ever
have left it, till one day an adventurous
widOwer, who had already taken one wife
from Jersey, came thither and carried of
Miss lie Breton as his second.
They came to London without excit-
ing any great enthusiasm or becoming
known to many members of society until
1877, then through concurrence of for
tuitous circumstances Mrs. I.angtry was
seen, admired and invented as beauty
by certain amateurs, who Immediately
sounded her praises through out the town.
When the town came to look at her it
found she was indeed beautsful. She
possessed wonderful eyes of limpid,
transparent blue, which always wore a
winning expression. She was observed
to be extremely modest in her dress, very
quiet and unassuming in her manner and
discreet in all her actions. Jealousy was
disarmed, admiration increased and Mrs.
Langtry bee me one of those sights of
the town which the "Spring Captain"
yearns to see and for which country
cousins make long pilgrimages by rail
way.
'It seems but yesterday" says a re-
cent number of Vanity Fair, "when as a
bride she appeared in the Park and set
ten thousand tongues wagging. Since
then she has played a foremost part in
the battle of life, and this bravely and
we'll. You are spell-bound by her inetfa-
BILE sweetness before you have exchanged
hardly dozen words with her. Every
well-bred woman is, of course, free from
gene, but this one is gifted with deli
cious manner, simple and sympathetic rs
that wherewith mentally we endow
'Mignon, and she talks at once so pret.
tIy and SO musically that you are insensi-
bly, impressed with the idea of her abso.
lutte 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 itsel
incarnate. At Glasgow, where-that
goes without the saying-she was the
cyn"surc, she astoni~hed the canny
Scotch, by her generous impartiality
The plain and unal tractive partnel
claimed her hand in the ballroom and
he was not refused, though Adonis stood
at her elbow awaiting his chance. Lily
like in every fibre, she has preserved al
exalted reputation for womanly virtue
and this although she had been fatteret
and followed, caressed and made much of
more than any living woman. She ha
remained, however, the same, true to tn
gentle emblem forever here, the Jerse,
Lily"
Lady Virginia Sanders is entitled tt
the gratitude of London society for in
PRODUCING to it her niece, Miss Fitzpat
rick, who subsequently married Mr.. Corn
wallis West, of Ruthin Castle. Ruthil
Castle is somewhere in Wales, and there
fore evidently not fitting abiding plac
for beauty whose duty is to be every
where in London. To London accord
ingly Mrs. CORVALLIS West went, anc
she was greeted by an admiration amos
sufficient to console her for the most pro
longed absence from her Welsh castle
Her face is of that charming and pecu
liar style of beatty that has always movet
mankind more than the most regula
features. She has very rich com
plexion. on which an occasional freckit
stamps a certificate of fneness, ant
thereby adds to the charm of the genera
effect.
A splendid head of ripping hair
which used to be very long until she Gu
it into boyish curls, clusters framewis'
about her face, producing an effect which
many London beauties have sought t.
initiate, but which none have ap
preached. She is impulsive, original
daring, and says upon occasion tn
sprightliest things; and to her it wa
given. some little time, to throw th'
whole of royal ball into dismay hy al
unloward fainting fit, which was at ono
elevated into the rank OF social event
She dresses generally in a careless ant
sometimes in startling fashion. She !
small in stature, of an admirable form
and rides, with a certain dash, both t.
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