St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-10
ENGLAND'S ROYAL WOMEN.
Their Reputation for Good Looks

Their Reputation for Good Looks
:, Is Said to Be Undeserved.
London Letter t0the Philadelphia Times.
What fiction it is TO talk about the
beauty of any member of the English
royal family! There could not be a
more commonplace lot OF women. The
Princess of Wales is slender almost to
emaciation; her eyes would be dull but
for the makeup which surrounds them:
her cheeks are rouged and a wig
always covers her head, which, l am
given to understand, is completely bald.
She has little, If any, bust, she limpS as
she walks, and she is almost stone
deaf; so, one way and another, it is
rather Sckening to read the mass of
gush that is to be read daily in the
British newspapers about the beauty,
ETC., of England's future queen. She is.
no doubt, an accomplished, amlable,
virtuous woman. but in appearance she
Is an absolutely commonplace and alto
gether unintereSting person.
All three of the PrinceSSeS of Wales
have Indifferent teeth, bad complications
and wretched figures. Nobody would
look at them twice but for their exalted
position. The daughters Of the Prin-
cess Christian are equally plain look
ing, and there is no promise OF beauty
in the young daughters of the Duchess
of Edinburgh. AS for Princess May OF
Teck, who has so often been described
as beauty, all she can claim to possess
is a passable figure and good eyes.
Her face. however, is spoiled by the
way in which her upper lip protrudeS
and by nose which suggests an He
braic strain somewhere or other in the
family.
Of the many Wanted beauties of LON
don society only the Duchess of Lem
ster would perhaps pass as lovely
woman all over the earth. Lady Lon
donderry also comes under that head,
and so does Miss Wolseley, the
young daughter of Gen. Wolse-
ley, who made her debut this
year. Lady Dudley is now COM
pletely passee. and is as much made
up as an opera boutfe prima donna. All
the duchesses are plain-looking women;
even the two American duchesses, MARI
borough and Manchester. are too far be-
yOnd their youth to claim utilization with
Venus.
The Duchess of Pottland looks like
well-fed dairy maid, and the Duchess OF
Newcastle bears a marked resemblance
to a Younger edition of Mrs. Cleveland.
The dowager Duchess of MontrOse is a
sight for the gods, with her flaxen wig
and canary-colored garments, not to
mention her enormous proportions. She
reminds one of the better-half of sud-
denly enriched German brewer from
Chicago. She certainly would not be
permitted to enter fashionable New
/ York hotel until her rank had been ex-
| planned.
The duchesses of Rutland. Leeds,
;aI, MI
| while the ducheSSeS of AbercOrn. Ham,
| ilton. Argyll and Westminster are abso-
| lutey plain and undistinguished.
| Sale of the Island of Worms.
| London Times.
Our correspondent writes from Brus-
| sells: 1.-The Russian government has
purchased the Island of Worms, which
| is situated on the Esthonian coast, from
| the Baroness de Stackelberg Tor $780,
| 600 rubles. The island has, of course,
| always belonged to Russia. The Matin,
| of Paris, says that company under the
| patronage of the English government
| had been formed in London for the
| purpose of buying the island and turn
| ing it into another Gibraltar. The
Russian government learned this in
| time, and defeated the project by buy
| ing the island. The information of the
| Matin is interesting. but not complete.
| Here the report is current that Baron
| I'll. de Worms, the British under sec
rotary for the colonies, was, for obvious
| reasons, the instigator of this intrigue.
| 1t is said, moreover, that the British
| government desired to offer to the
| British. nation as compensation for
Heligoland, which it is going to lose,
| the Island of Worms.