Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-02-15
THE most beautiful English woman
of the decade is coming to Amer

THE most beautiful English woman
of the decade is coming to Amer
= lea for a visit. This is not any
professional beauty like Lily Lang
try, who would never have been heard
of out of little set had it not been for
certain social notoriety which she
achieved. Neither is it the good and
lovely Princess of Wales, whose charms.
while notable, have profited by her
nearness to a throne. Nor is it the
flirtatious Princess of Pless, whose
youthful vivacity and the fact Of her
being the daughter of a one time ia
nous beauty gave her a reputation.
Nor is the coming visitor Lady War
wick, whose claim to beauty depends
rather on her wit than on her face and
figure, which are only fairly fine.
The visitor is none of these, but Lady
Theresa Susey Helen Stewart, mar
chioness of Londonderry. She was
married "a years ago, and just the other
day her son, the Viscount Castlereagh,
welded the niece of the Duke of Suth-
erland. Her daughter, Lady Helen
Stewart, is a belle of London society.
Yet. though the marchioness is past her
youth, in her splendid prime none of the
young beauties can compare with her.
She has a regal carriage, perfect face
and figure that is a model in contour.
The daughter of a hundred earls, she is
an ideal of the type which one would
expect in a Lady Clara We're de We're.
The Londonderrys belong to an Irish
house, and Lady Londonderry's own
ancestors have been making history
since the time of William the Norman.
The earls Of Shrewsbury, who were her
forbears, have been as famous for their
pride and talent as for their splendid
deeds. 1t is one of the boasts Of the
family that the men of the house were
always brave and the women always
fair.
Lady Londonderry married when the
present marquis was still Viscount Cas-
tlereagh, this title always being used
by the heir to the marquisate. In 1884,
Lord Londonderry came into his title
of marquis. This brought to him q
handsome town house in Park lane, the
Fifth avenue Of London, where the
family resides during the London sea-
son. He has also five handsome coun-
try seats, the favorite one of which is
Wynyard Park. Mount Stewart, Coun-
ty Down, Ireland, is the original family
seat.
Wynyard Park is one Of the mos
magnificent places in England. The es
tate is famous for its fine horses ant
cattle. some of the stock.of the place be
ing race winners. The stables and thu
paddocks connected with them ar
models of luxury. On the stable boxe
are silver plates recording the achieve
ments of the most famous horses tina
have used them.
Salter House at Wynyard is the man
or in which lives the hired expert VIII
cares for the home farm, one Of tllos
model agricultural experiments II
which the gentlemen Of England hav'
mania for dabbling. The London
derry farm is a picture. So we'll is i
kept that it's cabbage fields are poem
and its turnip patches dreams in as
thetics. The Londonderrys very rarel.
exhibit any of their stock, it being thei
taste to live in proud, almost regal, ex
clusiveness, for they feel that there is
after royalty, no better blood thai
theirs in England.
In the stables where are kept Lad.
Londonderry's two favorite hunters
Fountain and sobriquet, are 40 othe
handsome animals, all reserved for tn
use of the family and guests. Lad
Londonderry is graceful and fearles
rider but, strange to say, her daugh
ter, Lady Helen Stewart, now aged Il
does not ride at all. Dogs are lad