Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1887 — The Fate of Professional Beauties. [ARTICLE]

The Fate of Professional Beauties.

Mrs*. Langtry, before she disappeared from English soeiety, had seen many other ladies raised by royal favor to the now extinct position of “professional beauty.” There is hardly one of these ladies whose fate is not worthy of commiseration and iwhose confessions would not be valuable. Their reigns terminated in various ways. One offended by observing that a certain waist was' not as thin as formerly; another, that a certain head of hair was not as thick as of yore; a third, in a festive moment, poured a teaspoonful of ice-cream down a royal shirt-collar; a fourth falsely and wickedly stated to' her friends that a certain bracelet was a royal gift, "Whereas in truth and in fact it was bought out of the hard earnings of her husband’s brain. The position of reigning favorite involved untold expenses, for to know the Prince involved knowing his set, who were numerous and thirsty, and for whose accommodation in a house often of the tiniest the friends of a lifetime had perforce to be discarded. Fulsome was the adulation poured upon the beauty during her brief reign, and cruel were the slights and snubs put upon her when it ended,[and when nothing remained to remind her of it but shattered health, an alienated husband, and an infuriated father-in-law. In such circumstances there is nothing for lovely woman to do but to go and winter on the Riviera. The future of such a fallen star js dark indeed, unless, of course, her husband can secure elec-

tion as a member of Parliament, when she can get back into society by another door.— Pall Mall Budget.