Morris tribune., 1881-06-23

S1luQg ON q DalcOQy-rau In an aIC1IuQe OF
great boldness, tempered by little mod
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
Grst brandy y-and- water Said London cor
respondent: When at Palermo last fall
heard and saw 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, a
Yorkshire baronet, slightly taller than ''la
Gitana," 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 on 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.
A reconciliation, however, was effected,
and in the season of 1S79-80 the Countess
of Lonsdale was the belle of the royal
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tee fashion was pushed to excess. Lord
Baaconsield, then Premier, particularly
distinguished her by leaving the circle of
ministers and taking her arm for prone
made. The journal tells us "Her ladyship
looked superbly. Her 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
(by courtesy, or rather shoulder straps,
hung strings of pearls, which b a curious
and novel effect. Her dress, too, had cost
1000 guineas, and on the white satin skirt
in front, as well as on the train, were ex-
quisitely painted groups of flowers" Of
her striking beauty, another correspondent,
writing from the south of France, gave a
vivid description. "a daughter of the late
Sidney Herbert" he said, "she has little Of
the remarkable intellectually either of her
father or Lady Herbert, the illustrious
convert to the church of Rome, and 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-ike with large,
dancing, beaming, lustrous eyes, chatting
and laughing all the time with somebody
or other, she lights Np the casino by her
very presence, and she has such deer-like
appearance 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" a pen
chant in which, as in her great stature, she
resembles the crown princess of Denmark.
Lord Lonsdale, whose health compelled
him to abstain, at least temporarily, from a
fast life, set out from England on the 14th
of January last for Madeira and the West
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 Amer-
can coast. He returned to England on the
11th of April, two days after the countess
had given birth to daughter, so that the
contents of the scurrilous letter, which is
making such sensation in London, may
be in part imagined. His marine observa-
tons while in American waters may indicate
that, like many another "gilded youth" he
intends following stormy beginning of
life by devotion to some mole useful pur-
suit. may add that he has boughta thou
sand-ton steamer and intends trying to reach
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