The Rock Island Argus., 1883-03-13
Langtry's Beauty Analysed.

= n WO40da III Was VINO tHtf9 f6ioHEfeSS1E.
la a letter tn the Cincinnati Enezt3fe9.
dissects the beauty OF Mrs. Lanotry. L
am not going to harp much on the
played-out string of I.anptry. and will
simply say that those who were reason
able In their expectation 5. found her sat
isfactofy; but those who locked for a
transeendent beauty were woftllly dis
appointed. 1 counted five women in.
the audience who. beyond all question,
were grsat deal nearer to perfection
than this psancea8 sfarling. The chief
charm was q iadgske aspect and man
ner. quite ont OF keeping with the part
she was acting in the pfsv And it was
Isobservable that when she did unre-
hearsed things (as i'll picking mp the
dumped flowers from basket handed
to her while i'm front OF tile curtain. and
leading out her reluctant manager) she
was even more graceful and free than
when she was following instructions as
Hester Grazebrook. IL was easy to com
prehend how, with the Prince OF Wales
to pash her. she had made stseh q head
way in London aristocrafic society. She
has grown thin since the familiar pore
traits, exposing per arms and bone
less bosom. We're made. and she made
no exhibition OF those things. nor is.
SAO OttAEiy et tsES1filCfICan EOflf.
She IS iafge-jointed wxsEnan, with big
hands, and her elbows are larger than
the parts of her arms between them and
the shoulders, as was plainly disclosed
by the tight sleeves of her costumes.
No. she viii bare no such arms as she
now possesses. believe me. Only one
OF her dresses was low. and that ex-
posed only a wedge of skin down the
center OF her breast. This garment was
OF rich. warm-toned yellow satin. sim
pie in style, and fitting perfectly. The
waist was heart-shaped. coming low
down on the shoulders, and beneath
the frill of point lace, which circurn-
scribed the fieshy area to the narrow
limits already described, was only
piece of lightly twisted satin following
its outlines. The corsage simply carried
the line below the waist, and i'm small
points. The sleeves reached below the
elbow, with piece of the satin carried
round the edge, and little puff of white
silk edged with lace in each, tying it to
the arm. The idea suggested by her
figure was not of fieshy roundness at
the two wide parts mentioned, but of
big-boned frame not smoothly filed out.
This impression was strengthened by
the visli.ie action of her SHOULDER blades
top of her corsets, as well as by the
meagerness of her bosom. I faneiee
that she WAS about sesen-eighths bone,
and when she smiled, with her exten-
siye mouth and white teeth. the unpleas-
ant thought came to me that she was
exposing the whole front of her skull,
which might at any saoment drop out,
leaving her head a shapeless mass of
hair and skin. Having expressed that
horrid idea must not fail to do the wo-
man justice by saying that as an en-
tirety, she 10 about as wholesome,
healthy, elean-looking creature as one
would wish to see. She walked with a.
stride that indicated a sturdy pedestrian,
and altogether, she had more outdoor
breeziness than one would expect in
dainty. drawing-room pet. Langtry was
focus for every glass in the house in
sEantly On her appearance, and whsn J
she made her first exit there arose saeh
Q babel Of comment that the cii.er oct
Ors CouId NOS De nearu Sc all Sac bore
the ordeal without tremor. j have no
DOUBT shs liked it.
'sShe talks about her personal charms
with the utmost freedom" said jour
nalist who had interviewed her several
tines.
ssWell, suppose You gentlemen OF
the press bored her until she talked as a
means OF getting rid OF you quickly"
remarked
Bored her. he retorted. = we'll.
that's funny. There wasn't reporter
who went down the bay to ine,t her, /
and wrote her mp, for his paper, who
wasn't iinportaned to call on he, ut her
hotel And, ii he did il, and wrote
something more than his managing eds
itor deemed worth publishing, then he
soon got a little NOTE begging him to
call again. Bored by reporters? Please
permit me to laugh"