Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-11
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Com'd'r U. S. L. l., 10Th District.
GIimpses OfTwO Celebrated Lon.
don Beauties.

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don Beauties.
New York Herald
The fierce light that beats about the
throne has suddenly been focused,
through the means of a s%currulous
London paper, upon the two reigning
bellies of the metropolis. Mrs. Lang
try is the daughter of the Dean of Jer-
sey, an island which is famous for
pretty people, although it had not be-
fore attained the distinction of furn-
ishing London with the beauty official
ly accepted as such. Her early life
was passed entirely on the isle of her
birth, and there seems 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 without exciting any
great enthusiasm or becoming known
to many members of society until
1877, then through a concurrence of
tortuitOus circumstances Mrs. Lang
try was seen, admired and invented as
i beauty by certain amateurs, who i'm
mediately sounded her praises
throughout the town. When the town
came to look at her it found that she
was really beautiful. She possessed
wonderful eyes Of a limpid, transpar-
ent blue, which always wore a winning
expression. She was observed to be
extremely modest in her dress, very
quiet and u%nassuming in her manner
and discreet in all her actions.
Jealousy was disarmed, admiration
increased and Mrs. Langtry became
one of the sights of the town which
the Spring Captain yearns to see,
and for which country cousins make
long pilgrimages by railway. ut seems
but yesterday" says a recent number
Of Vanity Fair, when az a bride SHE
appeared in a park and set ten thous-
and tongues a wagging. Since then
she has played a most foremost part
in the battle of life, and this bravely
and well. You are spell bound BY
her inetfable sweetness before you
have exchanged a dozen words with
her. Every well-bred woman is, of
course, free from gene, but this one is
gifted with a delicious manner, simple
and sympathetic as that wherewith
mentally we endow "Mignon," and
she talks at once so prettily and so
unsteady that you are. insensibly i'm
pressed with the idea of her abso.
lutely sincerity. The bright, ringing
treble; the light, springy step, the
halcyon view Of life characteristic of
girlhood, are hers. Above all, she is
kindness itself inearnate. At Glas-
gov, where-that goes without the
saying-she was the cynosure, she
astonished the canny Scotch by her
generous impartiality. The plain and
unattractive partner claimed her hand
in the ballroom, and he was not re-
fused, though Adonis stood at her
elbow awaiting his chance. Lily-like
in every fiber, she has preserved an
exalted reputation fpr Wemanly virtue,
and this, although she has been
battered and followed, caressed and
made much of, more than any living
woman. She has remained, however.
the same, true TO tho gentle emblem
forever hers, the "sersey Lily n
MRS. CORVALLIS WEST.
Lady Virginia Sanders is entitled
to the gratitude Of London society
for introducing to it her niece, Miss
Fitzpatrick, who subsequently mar
ried MIR. CORVALLIS West, of Rutbin
Castle. Ruthin Castle is somewhere
in Wales, and therefore evidently not
a fit abiding place for a beauty whose
duty Ia "a 10 everywhere in london.
To London, accordingly, Mrs. Corn
wallis West went, and she was.I
greeted by an admiration almost sufi-
cient to console her for the most pro-
lQnged absence from the Welsh castle.
Her face Is Of that peculiar style OF
beauty that has always moved man
kind more than the most regular fea-
lures. She has a very rich com
pleSi9ni on which an occasional
freckle stamps y certiaoate Of fine
ness, and thereby adds to the charm
of the general effect. A splendid
head Of ripping hair, which used to
be yegy lon I until she cut it into boy.
ish clusters franchise about her face.
producing an effect which many Lon
don beauties have sought to initiate.
but which none have approached
She IA impulsive ~oripinal darina M