A Parisian Beauty

The young lady whose portrait is here given is a person of no little portanoe. She in the reignmg beauty of the hcmr is Paris; that is, she was when the photograph left the shop oi M. Ogerau, bef ore whose camera she posed, and presumably she is still, unless she has been supplanted by anothei beauty in the meantime. This is unlikely, however, for it would be dimcult to discover another young gir] with so many of the reqxiisites foi charming the fickle Parisian heart as has Mlle. de Merode, as the calis her self. For she has not only great beauty but original beauty, and she has in finite chic and she is a product oi the stage, to whose allures the Parisin, as she is well known, is particularly sxisceptible. She is a ballerina at the opera; not a premier danseuse, but merely aallet girl, and she does not dance in the front row at that, but in the second. Her figure is probably not good enough from the stage standpoint, for th( front row, as she is very tall and thin. It is the beauty of her face that brings her the diamonds that she wears nightly in the ballet, diamonds of en ormous size and unsurpassed luster, which glitter in the rays of the fooi lights as she makes her steps with the other ballet girls. With her long lithe, girlish figure. Mlle. de Merode would attraet notice anywhere, and her costumes are always daring and magnificent. Her high color and dead black hair permit her to carry off th most glaring hues. Though her coloi is so high her skin is exquisitively soft and her black eyes are made all the more lustrous by their setting of bistre and their long lashes. Her carriage is always very much in evidence al Longchamps and at all show places and she is generally to be seen at tended by young noblemen and club men.