MRS LANGTRY'S LONDON HOME.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 204, 27 August 1881, Page 1

MRS LANGTRY'S LONDON HOME.

-[^Brooklyp^le."]' The hoaaehold effaeta-of the beautiful Mrs Lang try were 8018 at auction recently, and a large crowd of London people attended the sale. There were Elizabethan chairs, end Chippendale tables and pretty ecteens, to s«y eoihing of cast-ofi pairs of skates, yanht flags, and, dog chains, all to be put under the auctioneer's hatatner, and ibe people who had a desire to. know how a prbfeeaional beauty lived gratified their curiosity and indulged; in asouvenir at one and the same tioje. The matter la of no moment, however, but for one fact) and (hat is, that the house, which was a famous fashionable resort, where therbest people of London were being constantly entertained^ was a poor one; shorfi*6f "its' decorations and robbed of the taste which .changed its low, square rooms at><3 narrow halls into a bower of beauty. It was in o 1 faebionable neighborhood, but it was of itself a thoroughly unfashionable house, old and common, rwjith tawdry, cheap interioi" decorations and common apperance. The taste of, the woman whose "dresses ,wera : the despair of dowagars with marriageable daughters, and whose .beauty w^s . etihanced by the fant'ess ' qp3tameß,B ; he- 'wbre'i^ade- this.hquße 0 'homer of. ,beauiy. ; .) jlhe ;woman :who could, make the tncatatnorphoee that V*kß-" ; ifiSde iii- tb^ 1 flibtldo : should bot 3 ;b;e! .peymiU^^.'^^reiriairi'"'^^ .'Ufa ness.' L 'lf lTprtu.be fijjla -hpr; and :it ia whispered: that: it ip lalready doing; soj . she SQO&ld, be ; iadUß&a td^teiach ; te3|heitid art to jddipfiion f ;^|a Jpnd show ttbe un-j imegtn,ativfl r : of<.'h.9rnß^i«;..ho<9 ,io cover 1 dingy walisi and-: tawdry ceilings with! green draperies, 11 ° htis ddrivert cheapj wiodpwa. miti b^o wjer^lprVflow^re* Eterj value would, hi jPl^eiesa if she could! be induced td'/doMhisi for the art she poßßes3ea is one; of 'ihjd very rarei3t, ancil women who have ifi^e' Worth more toj the world than. itheyV know. If Mrs; Langtry W6old.bttt :;return to London! she woyd'fin^her-pbpirlarity increasedl tenfold, for .iff if ,^(th admiration that people speak of kpowing her cleverness id . house i urnishicg. With i a few handeome rugi : and. easy chars,: plenty bfdrapetjf^^q^. not many arti.cles of vertu^ s{je;i^nsformed au old I.) London house, ioto a , charmibg home,| where ;gueßtß Were sureto eiaj^y thtsirsrirrouhditigs and 'its reatful beauty. Mrs Lrugtry is, therefore, eooaethingi more than a professioDal beauty, and. if sbe ia ; to go ovH\ West, a* the : ppfierfe atinounce, what a godsend ehe; would be ; to the kind of folk described^irfithej i Fair Barbarian,' who live at' Bloody! \ Gul'cheei/ and ebtid to New- York for I : furniture to crbwd ?nt6 •ihem; The! uphDleterers might suffer in purse, bu)E | ; tbe cause of all would be 6er?ed, and ; I the people would be all the happier for haviog tasteful homes. Mrs Langtry has a flail before her if she wishes to : come before the people as a teacher oi 1 ; Octavia Baesette, and no doubt gome : enterprising lecturers bureau will have! her booked for lectarea immediately.