Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1880-12-25
Mrs. Langtry Ahead.
HOW THE PROFESSIONAL. REAUTY
DIVERSIFIED 4 RIVALS PIE

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Every one knows there is great rivalry
between Mrs. Langtry and Mrs. Wheeler
greater between them than any other Of
the reigning ''beauties'' that What.
ever one can do. as to score = off the
o'ner' Is done by each. Mrs. Iangtry is
KNOWN to possess very beautiful arms.
while Mrs. Wheeler sare thin and sc,aggy
on the other hand, the reverse extremi.
ties of Mrs. Wheeler are regarded hx
'hose who have seen them as models of
shape and form, while Mrs. Lanptry.
though possessing fairly small feet when
bten chdusee can only boast of upward
continuation of averp pipe stem ORDER
Well, the season before last Mrs LAM
try set the fashion of the sleeveless ball
dresses, and of course Mrs. Wheeler
much to her detrimcnt, had to adep. the
style. But she set to work tn thipk h,w
she would retaliate, and this is how she
ana 1t: At the first ball she appeared at
last season she Wore dress with a very
short skirt. The Prince admired it and
as matter OF course. it became the fash
ION. But what was Mrs Lanctry to do
ohc tired 1t once, but the effect as NAV
be imagined was disastrous Then she
set to work to cudgel her brains and
happy Thought at the next ball, instead
OF adding an inch or two TO her drasries
as she had first thought of doing. she had
actually taken reef in her already shor,
skirt. But underneath appeared pair Of
certain article Of ladies' lingerie which
on the present occasion shall be otherwise
unmentionable, of knickerbockercu cut and
reaching to her ankles, where they wcr.
decreased in fulness by narrow band.
and thence fell over her instep in a short
nounce OF point lace. The effect wa, i'm
mense. The Prince was more than d.
lighted with it !; and not only did Mrs.
Wheeler find herself completely check
mated at her own game, but at the wear
ing OF the additional garment q ku Lang
try at once becomes the thing she is of
course obliged to adopt it, and thus con.
ceal what it had been her metivc to SO
suotlv d'srl"S" America.
The prov nee Of Buenos Ayres and
Montevideo are as vet far from being
overclowded but an Immigrant will
not fare worse for going further for ell
bow room, provided he be az careful to
insure free and easy communication
as good general would be anxious to
keep within reach Of his base OF opera
tions. There are rivers in this region
nayigable by steam for thousands OF
miles, and the railways, which seem
to have been providentially invented
to serve the purposes Of American col
onization, are already reaching the bor-
ders of the Grand Chaco, the Grand
Pampa, Patagonia. and other great
deserts. where land is to be had for
mere asking, and where the red lndi-
an has ceased to be the bugbear he WIZ,
and can not be made TO face breech-
loading rifle.
Tho land is, in the main, an i'm
mense fiat, no doubt very large tracts
of alluyial soil. without q tree or q peb-
BILE; part of it mere swamps or salt
wilderness. But even these thousand
i miles of unbroken level are not with
out peculiar beauty Of their own !;
| their boundless horizon and awful sol
itude: the freshness and purity OF the
atmosphere, and the keen enjoyment
of unlimitable freedom. Nor, apart
from intercourse with his fellow men,
ia a man here crushed by sense oi
forlornness for nothing is more strik-
ing than the teeming life Of the animal
KINGDOM in the pampas the abun-
dance of game. storks and herons, the
owls and the hawks, the flights OF the
wild turkey. and fiocks OF ostriches, u
saw nothing Of the ubiquitous pterop
tero and chattering little cardinal
a multitude and variety OF fowls ant
hrutes-nameless To me a. well a. mum
berless-the gayety Of whose plumag'
and fur and the strangeness ana "iin
ness of whose screeches and ho"is
settler will always and everywheF
have with hun, and which will oni.
gradually make room for the hock
and herds, the barking and believing
the growing and cackling OF his dome'
tic surroundings.
Life in the prairies is life in the "aa
> die: for the very beggar here u moui
Is ted and away from rail or tram way
g neither for sex nor age Is there any OH
II er practicable, or. q, least. endurab
" means of locomotion than on hoFs
3 hack: and the horses are Tneet an
:, sure-footed, brave as lions. gentle ali
Is docile a. cows. and their purchase al
t, keeping cost little, and their stabiit
e; 9; and shoeipg nothing.
N Checkmate is eating blue grass
Eminence, KY.