The morning news., 1888-07-26
little HEIRESS JUANITA
LIFE OF A TIN MILLION DOLLAR
INFANT AT LONG BRANCH.


r,ne "Too Cunning" Little Miss Terry
and Her Everyday Life-Gossip of
Interest to New Yorkers from the
Noted Seaside Resort-Some Success
ful Concerts.
From the NeD York Times.
LONG BRANCH, July est isn't every
dav that one can chuck $40, 900, 900 under
tba chin. did this morning aud the chin
aid not resist it; indeed, it seemed rather to
like it, At any rate, the thin lips above
rarted in smile, reflected again in pair of
spendid brown eyes, eyes that were the
only handsome features of small pale
face upon which was aamped in treacher-
ous letters the word "spoilt." The pale
face. the big eyes aud the chin belonged to
little girl of 2. A tiny golden calf, al
ready worshiped and paid homage to
bv its family and the world at large, with
the exception Of one person,
That person was the child's own nurse.
Strange, and sad, too, that $4,000, 900
won't buy good nurse. Just as true, too,
is it that as no man is a hero to his valet,
no infant is "a little angelo to its nurse
This feminine speck Of humanity wabbing
about under big Leghorn hat that made it
look like a mushroom; petted, caressed, in
duged as it was by a large and admiring
circle Of pelf, was vet most emphatically
under the thumb of the white apron and
cap. The Nurse bad pale blue eye, but it's
capacity for glaring was immense, and one
glance transtixed the unruly child, even as
we are supposed TO believe the gaze of the
hon tanner awes his savage charge
When the infant heiress otherwise Juan
tia Terry, appears on the piazzas of the
West End in spOtless raiment and gigantic
sash, she may stand on her head even as
she put her foot in her mothers soup plate
the other day, and her performance will be
pronounced too cunning" while the grim
guardian OF her milk bottle smiles approx
ngy. But, oh, what tales the sands could
tell not only of this particular case of
nurse, but of tho nurse girl in general.
When the fashionable mother is lolhng i'll
an easy chair listening to the morning con
cert in the parlor of the big hotel, or per-
haps driving out to pay her morning visit.
with her bebelled ard beribboned pug IN
her fair arms it is then the nurse takes the
children to the beach for an airing Her
hour has come. Perhaps | should say their
hour has come.
Herod is dead-but he lives again, multi
piled by tens of thousands, transmigrated
into the bodies of Celeste and Mary Ann,
o.
inn0cenJs with diligence and zeal that
would delight the spirit of their mighty
predecessor; though compared to his own
crude methods theirs is ultra refined and
Ingenious, for it includes the mind and the
soul as well as the bOdv
1t is on the sands that little Miss Terry
gets slap on the side of her head that
makes it ring. 1t is on the sands that small
Evelyn hears her own bonnie tell Mrs
RhipAStnnpiS vol Iyr,1is
quarreled with her papa because she drove
70 Pleasure bay with Capt. Crack. 1t is on
the sands that Master Percy in knicker-
Lockers listens to the vivid description that
eicits screams of laughter of the state his
papa came home in from the races, and how
be insisted on kissing the speaker, which
made madam furious. 1t is on the sands
that the pretty Tiny Rivers, with a wreath
ofroses around her hat is jerked out of
dear little well she has dug, with a force
that might dislocate bigger arm.
When Tiny cries and threatens "to tell
mamma" Marie threatens bigger "boogie"
that night than ever before, ana the other
nurses laugh as she enlargeS on the size of
It's mouth and the length of it's teeth. An
older woman with sorrow in her face and
baby at her breast demonstrates, but is
promptly told to shut up.
We have wandered a long way off from
the tiny millionaire to return to her. She
Is here with her retinue, so to speak The
retinue includes her mother, Mrs. Juan
Terry; her two young girl sisters, her nurse,
maid, an apoplectic pug and slxteeA
trunks. When it was known that Mrs
Terry, of singularly and romantic and sen
satlonal associations, had arrived, there was
general rush to get a glimpse of her.
There is nothing that piques the curiosity Of
woman more than another of her sex who
has had the reputation of breaking mems
hearts, and if she no longer retained her
beauty, the west end reasoned that at least
she would carry sufficient traces Of it to be
Interesting
What the west end saw was stout woman
anywhere between As and so, with full
face, ordinary features and no earthly sug
gestlon of former beauty, unless it was in a
mass of fair hair shading at the ends into
god, and which is piled on the top of her
round head and stabbed with a diamond
comb. gentleman that knew Miss Terry
twenty years ago or more, when she handed
Mn nm sherry and bitters over the bar of the
Washington hotel in Liverpool, says that
h then her hair was all gold that her com
leMon was SO smooth and its rose aud white
so beautifully blended, that even in the
!and OF lovely skins it was remarkable.
Tier greatest charm, and one time has thor
oughly obliterated, was a perfect figure,
uot on the grand or statuesque scale, but
toVleF peUlte perfect IN lts curves ana lines
ana carried with the air of little duchess.
Mrs Terry is at present in half mourning,
therefore, if disposed, she has few oppor-
tuhltles to outrage good taste. Her dresses
are made in Paris, which is equivalent to
saying they are well made and well fitting,
ana she can't resist wearing her diamonds,
winch are so big that they look like imita-
Soa stones, Mrs. Terry drives out i'll a
Sandstone carriage drawn by pair of high
Stepping bays. Her daughters go out in a
@dnty wagonette, and know how TO handle
'le Feins over a span of smart ponies
81 The elder Of the two is about IL and with
oI' any special claim to good looks. The
oyler quite two years younger, promises to
make very handsome woman. She has
mh2, almond. shaped eyes, very dark, a
magnificent abundance of fair hair, good
Iea'ores and the complexion her mother
oAce D9ased Both girls were brought up
"a French convent. Their modest man
4gr NJ and perfect accent are evidence of that.
iuer mother knows how to take care of
Me1l' too. When she runs up to the city
~ business they 60 upstairs with the pug,
.I .le maid and the baby, and there they stay
until She returns