Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1881 — Mrs. West, the Irish Beauty. [ARTICLE]

Mrs. West, the Irish Beauty.

Dublin Evening Telegraph. Mrs. Cornwallis West, who accomnies her kinsman, the Hon. Lionel Sackville, to Washington,is a beautiful and brilliaut Irishwoman, a niece of the Marquis of Hearfort, her maiden name Fitzpatrick. She is lively and spitituelle, like Erin’s bright daughters in general, and became by those qualities alhne one of the leaders of London society. Opinions were divided as to the place she was entitled to hold in respect of beauty, for ber rival was powerful and found her claims to the first place as “professional” supported by the taste expressed by royalty; but concerning the superiority of intellect there was not the slightest difference of opinion. Rutbin Castle the seat of Cornwallis West.bas always been enlivened with all sorts of dramatic entertainment, in which the lady of the castle takes the leading part with the greatest talent and ease, while her low-browed classical riva could never sustain a conversation with any degree of interest. She is still young enough to justify pretententions to witch the world with her loveliness, having been born during the Crimean war, and christened by the odd name of Eupatoria. Her style of beauty is in direct contrast with that of her rival-laughing, sparkling, blonde and piquant. Her arrival at Washington will be an event at that city, and serve not only to waken up thed.piomatio corps from the droning ennui of its commonplace routine, but will serve to protect her honorable kinsman during the Beige which he will surely have to sustain against the American “gurlls” always on the watch and ready to pounce upon a diplomatic bachelor.