Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-04
ENGLISH BEAUTIES.
Some of the ITsmsen WAo Shine as Society
Lights-Lady Dudley, Mrs. CornscallSs-
Vest and Gtadys, Countess of Lomsdaae-
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IL Is CURIOUS 10 uOblCe, WflCoS C0CkdIgne
from London to the Argonout, how the
windows of the print shops are budding
forth with photographs of Lady Lonsdale
Lady Garvagh, Mrs. Livingstone homp.
son, Mrs. Corvallis West and Mrs
Wheeler. Lady Dudley seems to be get.
ting too passee to resuscitate. A few
years ago, however, she was uneuestion.
ably the handsomest woman in England
but now-well,a woman's beauty can't las
forever. Luckily for her, her position doe
not depend on her looks, like the Others.
Her husband, the earl of Dudley, though as
plain looking man as ycu would meet in
days walk, IS one Of the richest noblemen
IN the kingdom, and the combined forces
OF rank and money, which she has on her
side. have enabled her to do what none of
the others would have dared. Unlike the
others, she has ever spur . the notice and
attention of the prince of Wales, going so
far as to refuse to speak to him. Indeed,
she has been known on more than one
occasion to have deliberately turned her
back upon him at ball. She is a sister
of the unfortunate Lady Mordaunt, which
tells the whole story.
Mrs. Cornwallis-West has generally, in
popular sense, counted number tive
among the Beauties Some people there
are who think her the prettier of the two.
But her figure, though undoubtedly fine
one, does not approach that OF the Jersey
Lily, and her face, at public entertain
ments, is too deliberately embellished with
bismuth and rogue to allow it moments
place of comparison beside the purely nat
ural, unSOucAed-b art complexion of
other women. I was at country ball
last winter down near Henley, and late in
the evening a large party arrived from
some house in the neighborhood where
they were staying. Among them was Mrs.
Corvallis Strange as it may ap-
pear, had never seen her before. But un-
til I was told which she was, 1 had sup
posed it was some Opera-bouffe actress
who had got in the place by mistake, she
was so painted and powdered over cheek,
arms and neck; her eyes were so
picked out with belladonna; her corsage
was 80 decollete, her voice YVES so loud and
boisterous, and her poses and her gestures
had such decided smack of the heroines
of Ofenbach and LIE Coco. On her bodice
just over her heart she wore a large gold
paddock. This she informed some young
AAA0A4 WIN 4AY OAICU 1tS luSdu1uXs was Inc
lock to the entrance of her love, adding
with glance worthy of Schenider in her
best days, that even her husband had not
the key. Maj. Cornwallis-We the man
who occupies that unenviable position. is
gentleman of considerable private
means, arising form large landed and
mineral interests in Wales. In favorable
comparison with Mr.. Langtry he goes
about with his wife, and their names are
frequently mentioned together. In short,
he doe, not believe in chaperones.
OF another type altogether is Lady
Lonsdale, or Gladys, countess of Lonsdale,
as thesdeath of her husband, and the con-
sequent step down to sdowagerhood, now
compels her to be called. Tall, dark and
stately, she has been known in society
since her debut in 1877, as the gypsy"
A penniless beauty she was when she came
out, even though her brother was the earl
of Pembroke and her mother Lady Her
bert of Lea, so that within ayear she was
only too glad, when but eighteen, to take
as her husband the young earl ofsLons-
dale, who, though scarce four years older
than herself, was looked upon as one OF
the most famous reprobates the English
peerage had produced. A great lubberly,
heavy featured fellow, he was-an animal,
in fact, whose sensual tastes
first exhibited themselves in secret, but
unbinding, marriage with his tutors house
maid before he was seventeen; his prone
ness to the inordinate use of alcohol also
showing itself in numerous fits of delirium
tremens ere he had got out of his teens
But he was the possessor of 100000
year, and estates SO vast that even his
reckless extravaganza and dissipation had
not appreciably diminished them. Once
she was married, the gypsy like beauty did
pretty well as she iked-her flirtations,
while yet bride, with several titled young
guardsmen, who have lately seen service in
Egypt, causing more than one scandal in
high life. She was away somewhere abroad
during her husbands last illness, and had
to be actually summoned home to be pres
emit at his death-bed.
As widow, she does not appear to have
altered in the least. She has house down
near Windsor at which she now and then
entertains the prince of Wales, she and
the late earl having always been promi-
nent members of the princes set. She has
jointure of $4,000 a year, besides the con-
troll of what was settled on her three-year
old daughter; so she doesn't want for
money to do whatever she likes. She is
to be one of the party who are going with
Lord Charles Beresford and his wife for a
tour through India. OF course, it is her
rank that smoothes over whatever she may
do. But were she plain 'Mrs.," with no
blood in her veins traceable through the
labyrinthine pages of Burke and De Brett,
it would all be the other way.
The Last of the French Dandies.