The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-07-19
An oid- Time Professional Beauty.
Harperss for Juiy.l

Harpers Tor July.
 Strange as is the Sight ci the Gunninrs career, the romance of Emma Lyon is a hundred-fold more marvellous. Horn ot peasant parents, brought up in the mos, aeIect poverty by widowed mother. de. psived of the means of the commoues, education. and placed. at the age of four teen. as a nursesy-maid in a physician . family. this wonderful girl found the means of instruosins herself at least in the more superficial branches of a ladys ed. ucation. She cultivated the rare eits of . musical voice with which nature had en- dowed her. and after going through the various vicissitudes cf reiguing as the petsed favorise of two gentlemen of good position. consecutivefy shining as the most graceful of hcrsewcmen upon the valu ible mounts of Sir Harry Feather stonhaugn in the county of Sussex. sigus- ing in the nude as an illustration of the beauty of health in the show of . quack doctor, posing 10 the painter George sures, she positively succeeded tn duping a gentleman of lhe name ot Crcville into believing her an innocent little seam- stress, and accepted his ofFer of educating her to be worthy companion of hts eul- tured existence.
 And SO fitly did he form and tutor that gifted nature that, as ycars npened the g'rl.sh lcveliness into womanly grace and beauty, the native genius of a most se- cep,ive mind was developed % well in every direction that the laborer's daugh. ter became a lady able to compete with the shrewdcss in,eilects iu the la.d. Nos was her education neglected in the more special departments of hes own musical and dramatic gifts. One evening Kane. lagh-the scene of so many strange cou quests and wonderful pictures was con. vulsed as it had perhaps never been be. fore. even in the days q its favosite belle the lovely and simple Maria.
 Later on, aher her separation from Mir Greviile, Emma Lyon was married 10 Sil William Hamilton. his majesty's ambas- sador al Naples. For short year society shp, its eyes to whispered tales and vel comed the fair one to it's arms. that hei maiehless beauty. her rare dramatic and musical gifts. her winning and dis tinguished manners, might draw admir- tuk 8u1 1aftous tt0Hoa M t4CH semblies.
 All the bellies of the season wers eclipsed for the moment. Lady Cado. gan's pert pre,nness made no way an even tke brilliant duchess of Devonshirs herself had. we may fancy. to give way for a stort time to this turbulent rush o wonderful no,oriety, while as for the fashionable scandals of the hour, such al the prince of Wales secret marriage with comedy Mrs. Fi.rherbert, they were fairly smothered by this far more marvellous mesalliance. But the new belle was fortunately not to risk living through hel success into the cold region of bad mem. ories revived that lay beyond. Little more than year after her marriage Lady Hamilton returned to Naples laden with the lamentations of fashionable life, , and with her departure ends our consid- esation of her as a society belle. Ofhe, strange and uncanny friendship with the queen of Naples, of her undsniable inhu ence on the politics Of the Neapoli,ar court, of the services she is supposed sf have rendered to the English nation b, her efforts to assia Lord Nelson's enter prises, and last, but not least, ofhes roman tic amours with the great admiral andths almost magical fascination which she CT. ercised upon him, we have little 10 do for they are matters of history and ncs O society talk. A fe~ years after Lord Nel son's death Lady Hamilton died at Calais whither she had fled from her Londor creditors.