| Show I Site Is an American Girl All the romance is not found within the covers of books as is evidenced by the pretty little story told of the original of I the portrait here given which represents I Lady St Vincent of England sister of I the celebrated beauty the Duchess of Leinster I Lady St Vincent was a MissDuncomb and1 was born in Philadelphia of an English I En-glish father and an American mother I e rI4i e cjw FL 1 LADY ST VINCENT and she passed her happy childhood there As her father was a very wealthy man her education was thorough her taste leading her somewhat toward mathematics mathe-matics Modest and retiring in her manners she never strove for the admiration that was surely hers by right of beauty and attainments and in fact she was scarcely out when her father lost all of his for tune1 and the family was nearly reduced to beggary At this period Miss Duncomb sought and obtained a position in the mint in Philadelphia and as she was so quick at figures she soon rose to a position that brought with it a salary large enough to support the family comfortably if not luxuriously One day a party of English tourists passed through the mint to see its workings work-ings and one of them paused before a nimble fingered young girl whose beauty shone brighter than the gold heaped up around her That was the beginning and the end after several months of courtship was that Miss Duncomb became be-came Lady St Vincent and went to England Eng-land to live I Her sister married the Duke of Lein I ster and her beauty ana regal toilets have been for several years the admiration admira-tion of the world but Lady St Vincent is most modest and retiring even shrinking shrink-ing painfully from public notice though really more beautiful than her sister Lady St Vincent has large soft blue ayes and golden hair and an almost childlike face and sbe has a happier i I look on her countenance than has the j duchess I |
