MRS. LANGTRYS FARM.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9124, 4 August 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

MRS. LANGTRYS FARM.

THE JERSEY LILY'S DELIGHTFUL

NEW HOME IN CALIFORNIA

"I tell you," said F. S. Chadbourne yesterday, " Mrs. Langtry is a remarkable woman. She can do more with £2000 than another person could with £8000. That is a fact. She is a business woman, I can assure you, and anybody who has done business with her will find that out. You know, she has a lovely place up in Lake County. It is thirty miles from St. Helena, and adjoins Gebhardt's place. Gebhardt is going to bring out his horses and stock the place. Mrs. Langtry does not call her place a ranche. She calls it Langtry Farm. It is a nice place, and she has been very busy fitting it up. I don't care what people will say, but she will have one of the prettiest places in California. It has an old-fashioned house, but it is extremely comfortable. Next year she is going to build a fine house. For the past week she has been very busy having it furnished. I tell you, she is very particular, and she looks at everything very critically." '' She is expensive in her tastes, is she not ?"

" Well, yes, she is. She wants everything very nice. She has every room furnished differently. She has a iovely little breakfast, then a diningroom, and a pink parlour and a blue parlour, and a pretty little Japanese room. Her own room is thoroughly English. Naturally, her tastes runs towards the English style of doing things ; but she says that she is getting rapidly Americanised, and, when she gets into her new house, she will be thoroughly American. By the way, Mrs. Langtry h;i»s been promised a station, which will be called 'Langtry.' Her engagement ends on Saturday night, and next Sunday she will occupy her little house on Langtry Farm. Mrs. Langtry tells me she will spend nine months every year here." It is generally understood that Mrs. Langtry will secure her divorce from Mr. Langtry, and that, when she is divorced, she will marry Freddie Gebhardt, and join the two farms together. It is also expected that this event will shortly take place, and that the Gebhardts will go extensively into the stock-raising business i San Francisco Post. '