Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-02-25
QUEEN OF HEARTS.
New York Belle Who Has Refused
Thirty One Suitors.
New York Morning Journal.

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New York Morning Journal.
Very few girls in New York SOCIETY
have received as much admiration an(
attention as Miss Marion Langdon
the young daughter Of Mrs. Philil
| Schuyler, who has been out the pas
two winters. At every ballroom, at
receptions, and teas she is Away.
singled out, and receives more atten
tioa than all the other girls put to-
gether.
miss Langdon has one OF. the most
exeuisitely beautiful faces l ever saw,
either in marble, on canvas, Or life, 8
said leading artist, who made por-
trait of this young beauty. not long
ago.
Her mothers family is connected
with that of the Astors, and at pretty
Miss Carrie Astor's wedding she was
one of the bridesmaids, and it was
then she made her first appearance in
to society. She wore dress OF white
tulle over satin, and a long white veil
that brought out the delicate curves
of Der face and its rich coloring. The
winter following she was formally in
troduced by her mother, Mrs. Philip
Schuyler, at her residence On North
Washington square. The young de-
butante's bouquets were so numerous
that they were placed on the mantels
and stands and filled a large table.
''She doesn't lock like anything but
an American, said a prominent lady,
in speaking of Miss Langdon. "Her
features are so clearly cut, her COM
plexton SO delicate yet so full of col
or. Her dark eyes are too sparkling
to look Italian and too pathetic to
look French, and her form is the per-
lection of girlish grace"
A story is told of the goodness of. this
beauty. When attending a patriarchs'
ball last winter she went into the
dressing-room and found a girl &C
quaintance crying because she had
only one bouquet to take into the ball
room. Miss Langdon, who had four,
Immediately gave her the two most
beautiful ones, and carried the two re-
naming ones herself. Her generosity
10 the girls in her own set, which
Is very unusual among society girls is
very noticeable. She gave up dan
cling with La we'll known young man
because it made his finance jealous,
and on another occasion she declined
to ride on tally-ho at coaching
parade, $50 that friend might go in
her place.
White dresses are almost invari-
bly, worn in the evening by this
young beauty, although she occasion
~ puts on pale pink or yellow
gown. She wears few jewels, gener-
ally pearl necklace and diamond
or two.
Her bail dresses are always made
with low-cut bodices and short sleeves
and when she wears white she looks
like FGrecian goddess with black
hair" as young man said the hrst
part Of the winter.
During the summer before last Miss
Langdon was at Bay Harbor, where
she never appeared In public without
thick brown veil. She said the veil
was uncomfortable, but she could not
submit to rude sight seers.
At this same resort she saved the
lives of two young girls who had been
out rowing and upset their boats some
distance from the shore. Miss Lang
don happened to be out in her own
little boat, and rowing quickly to the
spot where the two girls we're clinging
to their overturned boat, she succeed
ed in getting them into her own in a
very exhausted condition. She dis
likes any mention of this brave act, as
she does not consider that she did
anything heroic.
Miss Langdon Is connected with
the Livingston, Van Rensselaer,, and
Bemsen families. and inherits a large
fortune from her father, who was q
prominent man and a member of an
old family. Her step-father, Philip
Schuyler, is also very wealthy, ana
he has adopted herself and her sister,
Mrs. Annie Langdon, and she will
doubtless never want for this world
goods.
1t has been stated that Miss Lang
don has already rejectad thirty-one
suitors It was announced this fall
that she was engaged to Dr. Dick
Peters, of Philadel phia, the brother
of the beautiful Mrs. Wadsworth, but
the announcement was neither de-
MED nor affirmed by her family.
She dislikes anyone to mention
anything about her getting married,
and seems to have decided contempt
for girls who make matrimony an
object of life.
Some time ago Mrs. Schuyler and
her daughter started for Europe to
spend the remainder Of the winter in
the south of France, for Mrs. Schuy-
ler's health.
The great fear of society is that
Miss Langdon may marry a titled
foreigner. and if she does New York
will lese one of its greatest beauties
and heiresses.