News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-04-01
PRETTY MISS CHAMBERLAIN,
Interesting Gossip About the Young Amer
lean Woman just Home from Abroad.
From the Philadelphia Times.l

lrrom the Phlladelphta Times
There appears to be more magic in
pretty face and form than in a level
head. l don't mean by this suggestion
that Miss Chamberlain, the American
beauty, is not an intelligent girl. I be-
lieve she is. But it is not her brains
that have given her worldwide repu-
tation. 1t is her comedy face and win
ming manners. saw this young lady,
made famous by the gossips, and had
an opportunity of studying her features
and the play of her mind. said to my
self as l looked at this young woman:
''Why, she is not so beautiful as my
fancy had pictured her." She is seated
in the midst of luxurious surroundings
at the Victoria Hotel. Her father,
mother, and herself have a suite of five
or six of the finest rooms in the house.
At the first look the girls easy manners
strike you more forcibly than her face.
But when the deep, mellow tones of her
voice call you back from the recollec-
ton of what you have read of her
beauty, you will find the charm of her
features growing upon you. She was
caressing a shepherd dog, given her by
the Princess of Wales, herself lovely
woman. This titled lady took great
interest in Miss Chamberlain, showed
her marked attention and introduced
her into the swell society of all Eng
land. Yet these distinguished atten-
lions do not seem to have turned the
head of this American girl.
But let us look her in the face. 1t is
long, yet oval, and chiselled in very
delicate mould. The profile is reg
ular,- except the nose, which is a tritie
large. The mouth is rather delicately
cut, and oftentimes decidedly express
sive. The eyes mildly blue. Their eff
feet on the countenance is strengthened
by the remarkably heavy arched eye
brows. Her hair is light brown, and
just heavy enough to lend a charm to an
almost perfectly moulded head. She
seems rather tall, 1.-THE, and willow.
The first impression she makes upon you
is that here is a beautiful girl just out
of her schoolhouse, instead of woman
grace itself, and add very much to the
impression her face makes on every one.
/ can imagine that under the inspira-
sion of high social life she would be-
come brilliant figure of any company.
In her present surroundings there are
many evidences OF her five years. resi-
dence abroad. She loves Europe She
is here with her parents only for a short
stay, and then will return to the land
where she has made so many conquests.
1t is said that this girl comes rightly
by her good looks and polish. Her an
cestors for five generations have been
ladies and gentlemen of means and in
telligence. There is no affectation
about her, and her dress is in such per-
feet taste-rich and plain-that 1t de-
fies description. While she is interested
in England, she seems still to be in love
with her native land. Taking it all in
all, there is nothing especially wonder
full In this young lady, except her good
sense and perfect lf.possession. She
has been fattered enough to he spoiled,
but seems to have escaped this misery.
OF course, her face is her fortune, in ad-
dition to the money she possesses. In
our life she would attract no more at
tention than hundreds of other girls
over whom we do not rave. But for the
wide publicity that has been given to
the shape of her form and her face, she
W ould be lost among the crowd of al
most as pretty women you see every day
along our thoroughfare.