THE WORSHIP OF BEAUTIES.

Evening Post, Volume XVIII, Issue 5, 5 July 1879, Page 1 (Supplement)

THE WORSHIP OF BEAUTIES.

The star of Mrs. Langtry ha* set. Her fa<je lia* been removed from the windows in which professional beauty is exhibited to its admirers, and other faces are worshipped in its strad. The i<Jol of the moment is a very youthful creature, whose portrait hears the name of ¦' Counie Gilchrist " This interesting being (the London correspondent of the Dundee Advertiser write*.) is engaged at one of the thettres. She is yet in ''frocks;" but a pretty faco and graceful figure have made her quei v of her more elderly rivals, and she enjoy* the felicity of exhibition in a multitude of attitudes and in various cosiumos of various colors The run upon hr po trait and the interest in its exi'it.ition indicates tho worth and magnitude of the objact* on whii'h tho Imrtol Cockneydotn is set Admiration ot thu chi d is balanrad by worship of tho beauties of a type more rna-cul-uo and moro honefitting what may be supposed to be ihe neural tendency of the Imperial iui..d, whose headquarters fiU intelligent metropolis is Of t"is masculine type is a joung countess, not long married, whose huge lonn is shown to a grat fiod public sitting on a rail in an atti'ude of great boldness, tempered by a little modesty. This same lady condescends to appeir in other attitude-, the motive of which soem3 to be exhibitions of muscular capacity— w!ii<'h is of course a possession very valuable to an Impirial race. She also has rivals; but though th-y too can assume attitudes which suggests moro or less the masculine and tbe muscular, the seat upon the rail is clearly an achievement beyond their power, and therefore their rivalship is not seriuus. Next in popularity to these objects of popular worship aro a number of Zulu women.