Both of these women are of unusua
beauty. Both are familiar figures to th<
world because of their charm, their posi
tion and their extravagance. The origli
of the dancer is one of unusual mystery
No one knows who her parents are, when
she came from or who she is. All that ii
known definitely of her is to the effect tha
she was a familiar figure on the Klviera:
that Monte Carlo became her playlni
ground before the war and that she wai
one of the most widely discussed of th<
reigning queens of beauty in Europe. Hei
clothes, her jewels and her equipages be
came matters of nousehold argument, am
when she finally announced to the worlt
that she was about to marry one of the
most fascinating of Holland's young mil
lionalres and one who was considered bj
many to be the richest young man of thai
country, the fashionable world at Montt
Carlo was not even surprised.
They would not have been startled hat
she eloped with the heir to the most pow
erful royal house In Europe. Her vivacity
her charm, the unusual beauty of her handi
and feet, which are said to he the mos
shapely in all the world; all of this, to
gether with her whims and her strange
fanciful extravagancies, had made her a
figure to he considered as outside the
boundaries of the usual conventions of life.
Not that she ever aroused any evil
gossip. It wan her chief joy and delight
while dancing in Holland to send flowers
to the hospital and to fill her house with
hundreds of the little, ragged street gamins
who were gathered up by her chauffeur and
brought in to breakfast.
