Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-07-31
A LITTLE SEASIDE BELLE.
AN INFANT HEIREss WITH A Ro.
MANTIC HISTORY.
Worth $1,000. 900. and q Great
Traveler-A Strong Fancy for
Dolls-Her Wardrobe.

Worth $1,000 900. and q Great
Traveler-A Strong Fancy for
Dolls-Her Wardrobe.
A recent issue Of the Philadelphia
Times says: There is now staying
at the Beach House, Sea Girt, N. j., with
her mother, Mrs. Sharpsteen, formerly
of Philadelphia, the daughter of Mr.
Abbott, retired merchant, q lit
tie girl, five years old, who has
crossed the ocean seven times, seen
every European and American watering
place of note, and is worth 81, 900, 900 in
her own right. What is more, she is
beauty, is brim full of brightness and in
telligence, and should she grow up to
womanhood must make noise in the
great world of fashion and society,
where beauty and wealth, when COM
bined in a woman, exercise such ire
mendous sway. May Sharpsteen, the
little baby in question, possesses outside
of these pecnliarities personal history
that is equally interesting. Her
father was the Paris part
ner of Arnold Constable & Co.,
the great New York dry goods concern,
and when he died there few years ago
he left 10 this, his only child, his entire
fortune. Her mother, who has fortune
,.pf her own regards th- sAi,d ~ the
greater treasure and live lives but for TIE
one object of bringing up the little girl
so that she may be able to adorn society
and enjoy to the greatest extent the
unusual opportunities that will be at her
disposal Having been born in Paris, and
her fathers death occurring soon after,
Mrs. Sharpsteen brought the little girl
with her across the ocean to Philadel-
phia, but after travelling with her here
she has three times, within as many
years, returned to Europe and visited
the German and French spas, the Span
ish, Italian and other resorts and the
mountains of Switzerland, each time
taking the child with her. She is fine
little traveller and loves the changes, but
at times has shown delicacy of health
that, being very responsive to climate
influences, leads the mother to change
her quarters as soon as Ter daughter be-
trays any indisposition. Accordingly, in
this country she has frequently gone
North in the summer and South in the
winter, so that it may be said there is
probably not mature person of extended
social experience anywhere who has seen
SO many of the gay watering places of
the world as this little maiden of five
summers. Mrs. Sharpsteen has found
that Sea Girt, with its combination of
sea air and dry pine woods, agrees with
the modern little Miss Ariel better than
anywhere she has been, so that last sea-
son she was there some time before going
to Europe and she will spend most. of
this season there.
Little May IS q semi brunette, with
brown hair and eyes, a remarkably fine
complexion and an exceptionally beauti-
tiful mouth, shaped like Cupid's bow
that species of mouth which has the
lips parted when in repose and showing
pearly teeth within. She is what is called
''old fashioned, having seen and heard
so much travelling that her expressions
and the action of her mind rwI1nouo "e as
startling, but she is -r~--honger near IN
: Mon~a child
Turning from poetry to prose, we fin
! the following vague direction:
sMr. -, Travelling Band, one of the fou
playing in the street, Persia CPerHhore
Worcestershire. Please find him II pc
: sible."
Another envelope bore the following
; "This is for the young girl that wears spects
!, cles, who minds two babies 80 Sheri
street, of Prince Edward street. Liverpool
!, Mr.. ]. Wilson Hyde, in his boob
: "The Royal MAIL" says that two letter
/ directed as follows were duly delivered
, ''To my sister Jean, Up the Canongate, Don
Close, Edinburgh. She has a woode
leg.
The other was directed:
; "My dear Ant Sue as lives in the Cottage b
}. the Wood near the New Forest"
'tIn the latter CASE" says Mr.. Hyde
|. "the letter had to feel its way about fC
, day or two, but ANT Sue was foun
: living in cottage near Lyndhurst.-