Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-04
ENGLISH BEAUTIES,

ENGLISH BEAUTIES,
| Some of TIE TTsmen Wh0 Shine as Societa
| LiJhts-Lady Dudley, Mrs. CornavalISs-
Hest and Gladys, Countess of Lomsdole-
| Their Matrimonial! Appendages.
1t is curious to notice, writes Cockaigne
from London to the Argonout, how the
| windows of the print shops are budding
| forth with photographs of Lady Lonsdale.
Lady Garvagh, Mrs. Livingston-Thomp-
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 unquestion-
| 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 tvs
among the Beauties Some people there
are who think her the prettier of the two.
But her figure, though undoubtedly a fine
one, does not approach that OF the Jersey
Lilly, 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, untoucaed-by art complexion of
other women. l was at country ball
last winter down near Henley, and late in
the evening large party arrived from
some house in the neighborhood where
| they were staying. Among them was Mrs.
Cornwallis-West. Strange as it may ap-
pear, had never seen her before. But un-
| til l was told which she was, 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 so decollete, her voice was so loud and
boisterous, and her poses and her gestures
| had such decided smack of the heroines
of Offenbach and LIE Cocq. On her bodice
just over her heart she wore a large gold
paddock. This she informed some young
man 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 had not
the key. Maj. Cornwallis-West, 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 the death of her husband, and the coz
| sequent step down to dowagerhood, 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 year she was
| only too glad, when but eighteen, to take
| as her husband the young earl ofaLons-
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
| ent 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 q 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.
London Daily News.
M. Barley d'Aurevilly writes charm
ingly, he talks we'll, but it is his great
pride and Joy to be a fop. He glories in
the name as much as ever George III.
gloried IN the name Of Briton. His faith