Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-10-17
WELSH ROSE AND JERSEY
LILY.
Pen Pictures of the Two Refining
LondOn Beauties.

From the New York Herald
Mrs. Langtry is the daughter OF the
Dean of Jersey, an island which Is Ia
nous for pretty people, although 1t had
not before attained the distinction oil
furnishing London with the beauty Of
fciallv accepted as such. Her early
life was passed entirely i'm the isle OF her
birth, and there seemed no reason why
she should ever have left IT, until one
dav an adventurous widower, who had
already taken one wife from Jersy, came
thither again and carried off Miss lie
BRETON as his second. They came TO
London without exciting any great en-
thusiasm or becoming known to many
members of society until 1877, then
through a cOncourse of fOrtultous cir
cumstances Mrs. Langtry was seen, adj
mired and invented rs beauty by GER
tain ameteurs, who Immediately sound
ed her praises throughout the town.
When the town came to look al heT II
found she was indeed beautiful. She
possessed wonderful eyes Of a hmpld,
transparent blue, which always wore
winning expression, she was OBJ
served 10 be extremely modest
i'm her dress, very quiet
and unassuming in her manner and dis
Greet in all her actions. Jealousy was
disarmed. admiration increased and
Mrs. Langtry became one ofthose sights
of the town which the "Spring Captain"
vearns to see and for which country
Cousins make long pilgrimages by rail-
way. ut seems but yesterday, says
recent number of Idniy Far, when as
Il bride she appeared in the Park ana set
ten thousand tongues waggIng. Since
then she has played foremost part in
the battle of life, and this bravely and
well. You are spellbOund by her lneff-
able sweetness before you have eX-
changed hardly a dozen words with her.
Every well-bred woman is, of course, free
from gelie, but this one is gifted with a
delicious manner, simple and sympa-
thetic rs that wherewith mentally We
endow MifnOn, and she talks at once SO
prettilv and so unsteady that you are
insensiblv impressed with the idea Of
her absolute sincerity. The bright, ring
ing treble, the light, springy step the
happy halcyon view OF Northumberland
of girlhood are still hers. Above all, she
is Kindness itself inCarnate. At Glasgow,
where-teat goes without the SAYING
she was the cynOsure, she astonlshed
the canny Scotch by her generousimpar-
tialitv. The plain and unattractiye part
ner claimed her hand in the ball room
and he was not refused, though Adonls
stood at her elbow awaiting his chance.
Lilv-like in every fibre, she has preserved
an exalted reputation for wOmanly vlr-
tue. and this although she has been
tlattered and followed, caressed
and made much OF, more than
any living woman. She has re-
manned, however, the same, true to the
gentle emblem forever hers, the Jersey
Llyw
Lady Virginia Sanders is entitled to
the gratitude Of London society for in
PRODUCING to it her niece, Miss Fitzpat-
rick, who subsequently married Mr..
CORVALLIS West, OF Ruthin Castle. Ru-
thin Castle is somewhere in Wales, and
therefore evidently not a fitting abiding
place for beauty whose duty ii is to be
everywhere in London. 10 London
accordingly Mrs. CORVALLIS West went,
and she was greeted by an admiration
almost sufficient TO console her Tor the
most prolonged absence from her Welsh
castle. Her face is of that charming
and peculiar style of beauty that has
ALWAYS moved mankind more than the
most regular features. She has very fair
complexion, on which an occasional
ireckle stamps certificate OF tncness
and thereby adds to the charm OF the
general effect. A splendid head OF rip
ping hair, which used to be very long
until she cut it into boyish curls, clu.-
tiers iramewiSe about her face, producing
an effect which many London beauties
have sought to initiate, but which none
has approached. She is impulSive,
original, daring, and says upon occasion
the sprightliest things; and to her it was
given, some little time, to throw the
whole OF a royal ball into dismay by an
untoward fainting fit, which was at
once elevated to the rank of a social
event. She dresses generally in care
less and sometimes in startling fashion.
She is small in stature, of an admirable
form, and rides with certain dash, both
., hound, unI in Rnttan rDW