Saint Mary's beacon., 1880-02-19

Iy lovely, Nth acompIexion like moth
er-of-pesrI. and crown 0F s1Bns bar.
She waS dressed4 IN mourning and was
always accompanied by ber sister, ~
that time she looked not more sllan
twsntysthree. Asfpr Lord Gfantley.
who has married Miss McVickars. be
! i what our ierse American Language
describes -
nEsULAE LuhNuxL.s =
hte = neavy-witten, pig-i0oleqr clumsy
and ugly. IL is safe 70 say that tew oi
The American girls who envy Mics q e
IS e.HFs &c y z ! 'F1s : ks.11 -.
OUT knowing wnas manner q to!a y
y, would inink OF tsking him - nas-
band had ne no title 20 hoat nm
into TIER fayor. y even qnesuon
u Lady Sraniiey nerseHi ooes1 .Ook
upon tne Lorn as SainsF ufa" eAss ~
her delight 30 TIE uiie.
Lcrd GraHtlry = the son OF Capn
peasant girl. and the grandson oi the
Hon. Mrs. Norton, the Poetess. Mrs.
Norton was Miss SHERIDAN. anu all lhe
world knows the unhappiness oI ner
marriage with Mr. N0uon, and ner
years OF offfriendship with Sir cteari-
ing Maxwell, a"iFiendsbsp resulungin
marriage when the Poetess had reached
seventy-two and the Baronet heariy
eighty years.
Last year in Capri ! saw the dowager
Lady Graniley contiuually--Lady Grant
ley. The ex-taFantella dancer, who mar
Tird Lord CraniIey when he was ONLY MIR.
Norton, rowdy scapegrace whom no
self-respecting girl would have deigned
to marry. The dowager Lady Grant
ley, mother Of Miss McVickars Lord
Grantley and Miss McFickars' Lord
Grantley's sister. is now
PAT, COARSE. RED-FAcED WOMAN,
hobnobbing with all the Capri peasants,
and different from them only in wear
iug sweeping dresses OF expensive ma
terial, and IN her glory OF civilized bon
nets, where all her friends and ssso-
leiates 60 bareheaded and often bare
looted from the cradle TO The grave.
To look at her as beefy-looking as any
beer-and-beef nurtured low-class ma
tFon of fBiton-makes itaimost impossi-
bic to believe that she wason the beau
| ~ Of an island celebrated among artists
for the beauty OF its women. She wore
often that summer a. dress of black
grenadine, cut wsthout Innings and dre-
vealiae her colossal arm and Dust IN all
their mighty proportions, IS si1e used 70
sit before "Scopper's" cate and drunk
her mild drink: with her friends, Prin-
ciPal among whom was
"MKgowANs MARlucIA.
Mar'uc'a's "a Peasent giri whose form
or beauty, now, alas departed, mas
made her face known all over the
world.
Formerly no artist wentto Capri WIN
out painting her and We nsve seen ne'
pensiye lace 10 photograph shops OF al
most every city we have visited IN Eu-
rope, photographed from paintings winch
eve great part OF ihsir value TO heT
touching beauty. Now, although only
twenty-slx che IS worn and old, a. is
the manner Of Capri peasants OF TWEEN
ty-hye-theT season OF beauty oelng
as brilliant as ontterflys >, and as bFiei'
She has formed relation with q GER
tam Col. Mckeowan, OF Mckown, q
confederate officer, who, Tiddled with
bullets, lame. halt and bali blind, has
retired 10 that remote spot to gnash has
teeth at our country, breath curses upon
Americans and to finish his days.
N PICTURESQUE sEEsuALIrr
ia that beauteous. sun-ioved bay Of Ma
pies. He was very anxious for Mariu-
cia IN Continue wearing her Canri meas