The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-06-23
NUMBER 43.

esty. She also condescended to appear in
other attitudes, the motive Of which was
always the exhibition of muscular capacity,
and though her rivals could assume atti-'
tudes suggesting more or less the muscu-
line and the muscrlar which were then all
the rage, the seat upon the rail was clearly
an achievement beyond their power.
Finally her brother. the Duke of Pembroke,
managed to induce her to retire from this
publicity, not, however, before very
circumstantial rumor had gone the round
OF the society press to the effect that Lady
Lonsdale exacted a royalty on the sale of
her pictures. Before year of married life
the gossip had linked her name scan
dalously with that of young roue Of the
hrst brandy and water. Said London cor
respondent: When at Palermo last fall I
heard and sow something of the yacht
Northumbria, and later on, when near Nice,
| heard and saw something Of my Lady
Lonsdale leaning on the arm of that noto-
rious young rake, Sir John Lister Kaye. q
Gltana, and of that drab or pale-ale visage
peculiar to those who think the best of all
to lengthen their days is to steal a few hours
from the night. Both are in the spring of
life, and both are of that speed down hill
which may be termed rapid. His mother,
with lynx eyes, looks at on, and over the
pair, while Lord Lonsdale is or the North
umbria, off the coast of Algeria, where rumor
says he has made some well-known efforts
not to lengthen his days or nights either.
reconciliation, however, was effected,
and in the season Of 1879-8O the Countess
of Lonsdale was the belle of the royal
drawing room-at time when the decollet-
tee fashion was pushed to excess. Lord
Baaconsfeld, then Premier, particularly
distinguished her by leaving the circle Of
ministers and taking her arm for q prone
made. The journal tells us "Her ladyship
looked superbly. Eer diamonds were mag
nifcent, and on one side of her corsage
was fastened black pearl of fabulous size.
set round with brilliants. From her sleeves
10y courtesy, or rather shoulder straps,
hung strings OF pearls. which h d curious
and novel effect. Her dress, too, had cost
1000 euinens, and on the white satin skirt
in front, as we'll as on the train, were ex-
quisitely painted groups of flowers" OF
writing from the south of France, gave q
vivid description. "A daughter of the late
Sidney Herbert" he said, "sho has little of
the remarkable intellectually either of her
father or Lady Herbert, the illustrious
convert to the church of Rome, and a supe-
riOr woman, of remarkable qualities of
mind and heart. Her husband was yacht
ing while she was at Monaco. How one
prefers to be at sea, when on land one can
call such dazzling creature ones own. is |
one of those mysteries which do not wish |
to fathom, Tall, giraffe like, with large,
dancing, beaming, lustrous eyes, chatting !
and laughing all the time with somebody |
or other, she lights UP the casino by her
very presence, and she has such deer like |
that one would not be surprised |
to meet her in some dense forest, and to
discover that she only appears once in a
while disguised in the feminine form of
humanity. She is an indefatigable dancer,
looming up in all the drawing rooms Of the
London season like lighthouse" pen
chant in which, as in her great stature, she
resembles the crown princess Of Denmark.
Lord Lonedale, whose health compelled
him to abstain, at least temporarily, from
fast life, set out from IAa,::-' - - 80,
Indies, arriving at New York in his steam
yacht. the NOrthumbria, on the 25th of
March. On his voyage from Jamaica, it is
worth mentioning, he noted some very Gu
rious notifications of the conditions and !
currents of the gulf stream on the Ameri-
can coast. He returned to England on the |
18th of April, two days after the countess !
had given birth to daughter, so that the
contents of the scurrilous letter, which is |
making such a sensation in London, may
be in part imagined. His marine observa-
tions while in American waters may indicate |
that, like many another "gilded youth" he
intends following a stormy beginning of
life by devotion to some mole useful pur-
suit. may add that he has boughta thou
sand-ton steamer and intends tryingto reach
the North Pole from the other side of the
sea.