The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-03-21
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LANGqlY'S LADY MABEL.
Cruising On Her, She Will
Sebk Rest and
Enjoyment.
A PLtCKY YACHTswoMAN.
How She Became the Rage Re-
quirements for Women
Reporters.
A pLtCKY YAGHTSwoMAN.

Mrs. Langtry is more in love with
yachting than ever. In her handsome
steam yacht, Lady Mabel, which she
lately purchased. she is making the
tour of all the most interesting points
in the Mediterranean. Her only
trouble thus far has been that she was
quarantined for fourteen days be-
cause she had touched at Marseilles,
which is a cholera infected port.
1t was as a Yachtswoman that the
Jersey Lily first became known to
fame. Before her marriage to Mr.. E
Langtry she usec to take long cruises
around the Channel Islands, often
visiting the French and English
coasts. Mr.. Langtry owned a yawl
called the Leopard, but his tiancee
gave him no peace until he got a
racer. The famous Ildegonda, built
by the late Dan Hatcher, was the
craft that Mrs. Langtry wished for. 1t
was about fifteen tons, equivalent to
the modern forty-footer. In this fast
craft the Jersey Lily seldom missed a
race.
1t was at the Cowes regatta of 1874.
that the beautiful wife of the owner
of the famous racer first attracted
public attention as a professional
beauty. Fyfe, of Fairlie, had built a
ffteen-tonner for James Lambert, a
London merchant, and the boat was
christened the Fairlie, after a small
suburb of Greenock, a town On the
Clyde. The races between these two
boats were very exciting, and at the
Cowes regatta of that year, it blew a
terrific gale. In the fifteen-ton
match it was noticed that a lady,
incased in sailors's oilskins, sat
near the helmsinan of the
Ildegonda, and keptner place in spite
of the heavy cas- which occasionally
washed over the yacht, which was
being driven for all she was worth.
As the yachts arrived at the goal off
Royal Yacht Squadron Castle, at
Cowes, tremendous cheers were given
for the Ildegonda and the lady on
board. The Prince of Wales, who
was officiating as Judge, sent an in
vitation to the owner of the lldegonda
and his wife to come on board the
Royal yacht Fairy, where they were
entertained at dinner. This was
noised abroad, and Immediately in
vitations poured i'll upon them from
all quarters. The fashionable intel
ligence in the newspapers ~chronicled
the fact that Mrs. Langtry, the plucky
yachtswoman, had been invited to
Osborne House by Her Majesty. She
at once became the rag among the
fast clique of the London clubs.
The next season the Idlegonda was
sold. Mr.. Langtrya retiring from yacht
ing life, and his wife's name became
t~unpleasantly prominent in several So
cial scandals. She was forbidden the
Royal Court, although nothing was
ever proved directly against her. The
Jersey Lily shortly after separated
from her husband and adopted the
stage as a profession.
Mrs. Langtry, in answer to a friend,
said the other day: Yes. / am tired of
having to cater to the whins and ca
prices OF other people, and l think at
my age, forty years, ! should have a
little rest and enjoyment. That is
why / have bought a yacht. "-PhSIG-
deiphi0 Inquirer.
The Woman Reporter.
Many men who cannot write are
making good livings on the daily
newspapers. Perhaps they are willing
n able to work twenty hours out of
twenty-four-an excellent qualifica-
ton: perhaps they have sources of
information which others lack; per-
haps they are men of ideas, or "have
the news instinct which scents a
story long before it lifts its head in
the path of the average reporter. In
any case they earn their salaries, and
you will see them sitting at their
desks as the seasons pass and as the
official heads around them rise and
fall. <
There are various reasons why a
woman cannot take the place of such
a man-as yet. She lacks the training
the instinct. the strength. Perhaps
too. she lacks the self-confidence,
although that is the journalistic
armor which, if she be wise,
she will select first and wear
on the outside. With self-conld ence
there are other qualifications W hieh
she must possess. That she should
have a good education and some
worldly experience goes without say
ing. She will also need tact, a cool
head, clear Judgment, the ability to
think and act quickly, a good under
standing of human nature, and,
above all, IN up-again-and-take-
another spirit which no amount OF
encouragement can break.
She will be tired and disappointed
and heartsick much oftener than even
her intimate friends imagine; the
good work of one day will be over
shadowed by the failure on the next,
for her record begins anew each morn
ing that she reports for duty, and on
that days work she must stand or fall
back. 1t is the old story of the ca
climbing out Of the well. Her sex will
hinder her 100 times TO once that it
helps her.-Lippfalcott's Magazine.