Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-05-30
WAS It POSS|BLE2
Ladies of 0Iden Times That Were
InConvenientIy Beautiful.
How Many Modern Women Would
Like to Be So Handsome That a
Mob Would Gather Whenever
They Appeared?

They cant walk in the park,
wrote Horace Walpole OF the beautiful |
Cummings in 1851. or go to NauXhall' |
but such mobs follow them that they
are generally driven away. Eliza
beth Maria and Kitty Cunning were
three beautiful sisters who, coming
over from ireland in 1850, took London
nv storm Nor was the furore that
their beauty created of brief duration,
for nine years later we read OF Maria
Cunning by that time Countess OF Gov
entry, and Lady Waldegrave, that
two ladies of distinction (who had, II
seems, been incommoded by the mob.
as the phrase is, the Sunday before)
walked up and down the walks OF 81.
James park preceded by soldiers from
the guard-a precaution which gave
no small offense to the rest of the com
pany, who were frequently obliged 10
go out of their path to make way for
the procession"
Equally potent was the beauty OF
the Countess Of Castiglione, who, at
her first appearance at ball given
by Napoleon III at the Tuileries, Gre
ated such a sensation on her entrance
that the dancers stopped motionless
and the strains of the band ceased,
guests and musicians all pressing for
ward in their eagerness to eaten
glimpse of the newcomer. Wherever
she went afterward her peerless love
illness produced a like effect, people
climbing onto chairs and benches to
see her pass, while when, in 1862, she
visited the London opera the audience
stood upon the seats and struggled
for every place of vantage from which
to gaze upon the lovely F1orentine.
Fanny Murray about the middle Of
the eighteenth century was one OF the
toasts of the town. Her beauty was
beyond question, and created such a
stir at Tunbridge Wells, whittier she
went to drink the waters, as to neces-
state the formation of special guard
of her admirers. who keptoff the crowds
that fiocked and pressed round her
when she walked on the Families and
other public resorts. Indeed, such was
the fame OF her beauty that from
miles around the country folk came In
wagons, carts or any vehicle that
could be procured-and when one was
not available they hesitated not to
walk-that they might feast theil
eyes on the celebrity from town.
The good looks Of Julie Durrier al
ways drew after her a crowd wher
she walked through the streets of Mar
seilles-a fact that the proprietor o.
an eating house was not slow to avail
himself of when he engaged the CIR
to serve In his establishment For
few days all went well and Bonifact
was beginning to rejoice over his for
tune when he suddenly realized tina
one can have more than enough OF
good thing when the crowd of which
the dimensions grew larger every da!
swarmed into his establishment Il
their eagerness to view the beautiful
Hebe, and on his attempting to ejec
some Of the most persistent. broke IN
to open tumult. destroying the table
and chairs, breaking the glasses an
In short. wrecking the restaurant
whence the cause of the uproar wa
lucky in escaping by back exit. Tn
next day the place was closed an
soon afterward Mile Durrier left tn
town.
More extraordinary still was tn
sensation created at Toulouse towar
the close OF the sixteenth century
a paragon of beauty known only
fame as La Belle Paule. Wheneve
she appeared in public she was 6
once surrounded by a crowd OF me
and women belonging to all classe
whose admiration grew to be a pos
tive danger to its object. who ra
more than a chance OF being crushe
to death In the press, as indeed, ws
more than one Of her worshipers.
In these circumstances appeal we
made to the civic authorities, who, q
ter due consideration, agreed to su
ply her with protection against h
too ardent admirers, on condition TIL
abroad so that the public might loo
upon her face. This, after some d
muir, she agreed to do, so twice a wee
the populace of Toulouse were pc
mitted to collect in orderly throngs
view her whom they regarded as lit
less than a goddess.-Tit-Bits.