BARONESS BURDETT-COUTTS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1077, 23 May 1882, Page 4

BARONESS BURDETT-COUTTS.

A correspondent of the Hartford Evening Post was not long present at a garden party given by the Baroness Burdett-Coutts. She says : —“ Down the pathway, walked a tall graceful lady, dressed in a soft, twilled silk, with delicately shaded flowers sprinkled over its white ground. On her shoulders she wore a white Canton crape shawl, folded square like a fichu and over her brown hair, in which no grey was visible, was a tiny bonnet of white lace and lilac ribbon—a charming toilet, very becoming to a charming woman, the Baroness BurdettCoutts. She stepped forward, introducing herself to the guests, inquiring their names, and in turn presented them to her husband. With her great influence and wealth, her manner is easy, unpretentious, and unassuming as a child’s can be, and yet her gracious, quiet sympathy is so finely expressed within her sphere that it is like the perfume of a flower. She has a refined face with a slightly visionary expression, combined with a look of aristocratic breeding and culture. In everything but years she has the advantage of her youthful husband. He might have searched the world over and not found a more interesting woman or more lovely nature than that of the Baroness Burdett-Coutts. ’