Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-02-08
A Quiet Christmas Presentation to Mrs.
Langtry in Staunton.

Mrs Langtry is playing here for Stetson
as Lady Ormond in PERIL Of course
you know that, but have not yet seen
the fact announced that she has become
an American. | don'5 know as she will
think it worth while to be naturalized. be-
cause it wouldn't carry the right to vote !;
buJ she has gone to housekeeping here
permanently. and has settled down as a
New Yorker for good and all. She has
bought pretty little house-a dainty
maisonette-at No 120 West Thirteenth
street, close to Mays, near sixth avenue;
not in very fashionable or expensive To-
cality. but we'll enough, and her res dence
will hencefortb alternate between here
aud her London house in Dover street.
Piccadlly.
Besides the o.her servants, her estab-
iishment consists If an ACCOMPLISHED
French cook, Velour, of Paris: butler
feet inches. and a coachm IN and a foot
man in livery OF white cloth with real
Sd BILE capes and cuffs. l don't know how
many carriages there are, but have seen
three or four. Her personal maid, or lille
de chambre. has been in the Duchess of
Bucclt uch's service lately. Mrs. Langtry
is furnishing her pretty house tastetuliy
and luxuriouslv, but, withal, in a home
like ard comfortable style A bout the
nrst thing one notices on entering is sevt.-
raj mosque rugs from Arabia, sent to her
by the khehlve OF Egypt. These are, III
value. Well-nigh priceless, rs they were
brought from Mecca to the Khedfve dur
ing the last pilgrimage of the sacred car
pet from Cairo. tbs c.rpet CUES out
every year to BIZ blessed. and is accompan:
led by vast throng Of 100000 or 200. 900
of the faithful.
The attention of the visitor at Mrs,
Langtry's is also attracted by the fine and
very rate oak carvings on the walls and
stands. Among these is famous fifteenth
Werp, the great sculptor Wuuse -vsurh .
enrcits the st. Gudule Cathedral o.
Brussels. / believe the wonderfully elah
nrate-carVed pulpit VIII Gu saw last sum
| mer in the Old Kirk at Amsterdam Was
| also fashioned By INN. Tue tea service ni
| Mrs. Laug'ry i, very cho'ce. aud includes
Il marvellous collection of Chlna-pe1ftc
| BITS of blue, III pattern ranging from
| Wedgwopd to willow
| Her dinner service is decorated with d.
| sig, S by MlIlais and there is II nan dspm
teapot OF solid silver of old English pa :
tern, given to her by her company VI.
|
| ION: ''P. esented to Lill an Lengthy b
yer loving and loyal company. Cnristma-
1881 Mrs Ltngtry's preferences at tabl.
are for snlid food rather than trlf-s She
favors he dry Mon pole among cham
y gnes, bFcause. she says lit leaves 1T
headache in tho morning. and she prefers
! he fashionable spanish sherry, the Gun
9Th z Byass. Mrs. L.ngtry's m ,ther is
with her now-Mrs. LIE Breton, the hand
some wife of the Dean of jersey.
l am sorry to report that Freddy is out
in the cold. He is left. After all his per
sistence, the poor fellow deserved a better
fate. He is more melancholy than they
who stuck to their y. T. ST. cks too long.
H. imp coates his optics If all women are
n Vt lst the same-"they'll lead fellow
on I'LL he's made a fool of himself, and
then throw hm overboa d." He likes the
regulate n he has had, but cannot fling of
the air of a disappointed man. But he is
not heart broken-oh,n no 4! He Will shake
himself together again after awhile. AS
for Mis-. Langtry, she laughs meIrily and
plays her play, and sf1irms that she has
never been in s'P-ril'' before ". 4
Crofut's Ne,D York Letter.