The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1882-08-17
Some Fashionable Beauties.
London Society,

The professional beauty" is no new
feature of the London season; and though
photography has no doubt done much to
give publicity to the charms Of the love-
Hest women in the ranks Of fashion, yet
in the days Of our great-grand-fathers
and Observation-Disclosures the reigning
bellies excited just as much vulgar curl
osity and gossip as they do now. Take,
for example, the Cummings, Maria and
George II, one at the age Of Is and the
other at 10, and both Without shilling
to their dowry. ''They are declared"
writes Walpole, "to be the handsomest
women alive; they can't walk in the
Park or 60 to VauXhall but such crowds
follow them that they are generallydriven
away" One day they went to see
Hampton Court; as they were going in
to the beauty room another party AZ
rived; the hOusekeeper, in a state Of
great excitement said to the new COM
ers: This way, ladies', here are the
famous beauties,r' The Misses Cunning
thereupon flew into passion, and asked
her what she meant; they went to see
the palace, and not to be shown as q
sight themselves.
The Youngest Of the two sisters be-
came the wife of james, duke of Ham
ilton; he fell in love with her at
masquerade, and fortnight later met
her at an assembly in Lord Chester
fields gorgeous new house in Mayfair.
His Grace was so enamored of the love-
ly Elizabeth that he left the faro table,
where he had staked a thousand gui-
meas, and 'let the game slide" whilst
he paid devoted court to his enchant-
ress. Two nights later, at half an hour
DR.. Keith with the ring of bed-cur-
tain in Mayfair Chapel, one of the
most hasty and eccentric marriages on
record. In less than three weeks Ma
ria Cunning followed her sisters ex-
ample, and. was welded to Lord Cow
entry, though with not such indecent
haste as in the other case.
The two beauties were even greater
objects of popular curiosity after their
marriages than before. When the
duchess of Hamilton was presented the
crowd at the drawing room was so great
that even "noble persons clambered up
on chairs and tables to look at her,
whilst mobs gathered round the doors Of
the two ''goddesses' to see them get in
to their sedan chairs; and such crowds
focked to see the Duchess when she
went to her castle that 700 persons sat
up all night in Yorkshire town in Or
der to see her start in her post-chaise
the next morning!
Lady Coventry was equally run after.
At Worcester shoemaker made two
guineas and a half by showing, at pen
ny a head, the shoe which he was max
ing for the countess. She had, howev-
er, little but her beauty to recomend
her. 1t was she who made the singular
maladroit remark to his majesty that the
one sight she longed to see was core
nation. Her husband, who was sensi-
BILE man in many respects, though some
what of bear in manners, objected
strongly to her ladyship's excessive
use of red and white powders and naints.
ing that she had BEEN am a :i harself
up" he chased his wife round the table
till he caught her, when before all
{ 6e1 f scmp"ny With he a sS %p%d1;n
When Lady Coventry visited Paris she
expected that her beauty would meet
with the applause which had followed
her and her sister through En- gland, but
she was put to fight by. another English
Parisians. 4 Mrs. Pitt took. "a box at the
opera opposite the Countess, and was so
much handsomer than her ladyship that
real English angel, whereupon Lady
long afterward she died of consumption,
accelerated, it was said, by the red and
white paint with which she plastered
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