Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-12-11
MRS. LANGTRY,s PEERS.
Other British Beauties Famous i'm the
Highest Society.

1t Is curious to notice, writes Cockaipne from
London TO the san Francisco Arqonam. how the
windows of the print shops are budding forth
with photographs of Lady Lonsdale Lady Gar
| vach, Mrs Livngston-Thompson Mrs. Corn
wallis-West. and Mrs. Wheeler LADY Dudley
seems to be getting too pasSe to resusctate.
few years ago. however. she was unouestion
ably III" hand5omest woman in England. but
now-wcu, a woInans beauty can't last for
ever Luckily for her. her position does not de-
pcn! on her looks. like the Others. Her hus-
band. the Earl of Dudley. though as plain O.
looking man as you would meet in DAYS walk,
Is one 0! the richest nobiemen in the kingdom.
amt the combined forces of rank and money.
whie,' SIC has ON her side have enabled her to
Go WHAT none OF the others dared. Unlike the
others. she has eyer sPurne1 the notice and at
te'iii0! Of the Prince OF Wales go:nr so far as
10 refuse to speak to him. Indeed she had
pcen kn3Tn on more than one occasion to have
deliberately turned Ter back upon him at ball.
She is a sister of the unfortunate Lady Nor
daEnt " !iic: tells tie whoc story.
Mrs. CGr..N&:l's- VI est his generally. in a pop
i.lir seis". cuuntad number two among the
popular beauties Some people there are who
think her the prettier of the two. But her fl =
IRE though undoubtedly fine one does not
approach that of the Jersey Lily. and her face
at public entertainments is too deliberately en-
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moment place Of comparison beside the purely
natural, untouched by art complexion of other
women | was at country ball last winter
down near Henley. and late in the evening a
!&r--e party arrived from some house in the
/ 2sighborhood where they were staying Among
;hrm was Mrs. COrnWal!is-West. Strange as it
nay appear / Ead never seen her before But
until was told which she was had supposed
thaI IL was some opera bOue actress who had
got INTO the place 10y mistake. and was SO
painted and powdered over cheek arms aud
neck; her eyes were so picked Out with bella
donna. her corsage Was SO dPco!lete. her voice
was 50 loud and bOisterOus. and her poses aud
';e: gestures had such Il decided smack of the
htEoncs Ot ofienbach and LIE CCcq. On her
bodice just over the heart She wore a large gold
paddock. This. she Informed some Young men
who inquired its meaning. was the lock to the
! entrance OF her love. adding with glance
worthy Of Schneider in her best days. that even
her husband lad not the key. Major CORVALLIS
west, the lnan who occupies that uenyiabia posi-
tCn. is gentleman of considerable private
means, arising from large landed and mineral
! interests in Wales. In favorable comparison
with Iir- Langtry. he goes about with his wife
ana their names are frequently mentioned to-
@.ther. In short. he does not believe in ciape-
rOnPs.
Oh another type altogether is Lady LOnsdale
or Gladys. Countess Of LOnSdac as the death
Of her husband and the consequent step down
to the dGWagerhOOd now cOmpels her to be
called. Tail, dark and stately. she has been
hEowil i'll society since her debut iii 1877 rs the
gypsy. penniless beauty she was when she
came out even though her brother was the Earl
OF Pembroke and her mother Lady Herbert of
Lea. so that within year she was only too
glad. when but eighteen. to take the young
Earl OF Lonstiale who, though scarce tour years
Older than herself. was loOhe,i uDDn rs one OF
the most famous reprobates the English reerage
had produced great. luhberly. heavy -featured
fellow IL" Was-an animal. in fact. whose sen
Sual tastes first exhibited themselves In secret
but Hubindin. marriage with his tutors house
maid before he was seventeen: his proneness TO
the iEOrdinate use of alcohol also showing
itself in numerous tits OF delirum
treInenS ere lie had got out OF his teens.
But he was the possesscr Of S1Gn.000 q year
and estates SO vast that even his reckless eX-
trayagance and dissipation had not appreciably
diminished them. Once she vas married the
glnsy-llke beauty did pretty well as she liked
her flirtat!oIs while yet bride. with several
titled young guardsmen. who have lately seen
service in Egypt. causing more than one scandal
In hlCh lie. She Vas away somewhere abroad
during her husbands last illness and had to be
actually summoned home to be present at his
death-bed. As a widow. she does not appear to
have altered lii the least. She has a house down
near Windsor. at which she u0w and then enter
laihs the Prince OF Wales. she and the late Earl
having always been prominent members OF the
Princes set. She has jointure of E6O!0 IA
year. besides the control OF what was settled On
her three ear-Old daughter: so she doesn't
want for money to do whatever she likes. She
Is to be one OF the party VINO are going with
Lord Charles 3eresford and his wife for a tour
through India. Of cOurs,. it is her rank that
smooths over whatever she may do But were
she plain Mrs. b" Wit, blood in her veins
traceaGie through the labyrinthine pages of
Burke and De Brett, it would all be the other
way.