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As She Looked When She Met
King Leopold.
Paris, Dec. 5.
CLEO DE MERODE is going
vack to the stage again!
There is a world of mean
ing. an interesting lesson of life, in
that single announcement.
The spoiled favorite of a King,
the petted darling of the theatrical
world, who once rolled in luxury, has
pot to go back to drudgery after
s of ease with slim chances of
success.
Her youthful charm gone, her
i. lined with advancing years, her
Hippie limbs stiffened, she will be
i pathetic figure danci: j madly to
w.t back the favor of a fickle
public.
It was in 1889 tint Cleo de Merode
first captivated the wicked old King
Leopold of Belgium. She was then
8 premiere danseuse, a first dancer
of the Paris Grand Opera.
She was only seventeen years
old. and her youth greatly enhanced
her peculiar beauty. To-day she is
forty, an advanced age for one who
st eks to follow the strenuous calling
ci a dancer.
Her beauty, which was consid
erable, had an almost saintly air.
Her calm, serene, unlined’ face
seemed utterly free from worldli
ness and sensuality. This effect,
was heightened in a great degree by
the famous bandeaux, an arrange
ment of black hair smoothed
down over her ears and forehead,
4s in the women Botticelli painted.
Doubtless it was the contrast
she offered to her surroundings
Mid o the women with whom she
was most familiar that excited the
imagination of old Leopold.
Within a few minutes of seeing
her, he presented himself to her
behind the scenes. That was the
beginning of a period of fabulous
prosperity for the young dancer,
who was the daughter of a Paris
coal heaver.
Leopold’s presents to her in the
form of diamond tiaras and other
■ ejects of value were worth thou
sands. of dollars. She went to Bras
s' is, the King’s capital, and danced
at an enormous salary for the de
light of the King’s subjects. She
■vent, to America for a brief period,
also at an enormous salary. Her
remuneration everywhere was in
comparably beyond what her natu
ral ability would have brought her.
The King gave her spine 25,000
shares in one of his Congo rubber
companies. His favor brought her
in wealth from every direction.
The Paris newspapers were filled
with stories and pictures of her.
They christened her Cleopold, a
delicate allusion to her relations
with Leopold.
Falguiere, the greatest sculptor
in Erance, exhibited a nude statue
of a woman in the Salon. The
head was that of Cleo de Merode.
She indignantly denied that the
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THE high cost of living has made
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Cleo Learning to Be a Sculp
tress—Not Profitable.
rest represented her. Whether it
did or not was a controversy that
divided France for a month.
In another Salon the artist
painted her walking in the Bois.
A well-known square beard —the
beard of Leopold—peeped out of
the corner of the picture.
But .Cleo lost the favor of Leo- *
pold fifteen years ago. Her aus
tere beauty palled upon him. He
fell a victim in his extreme old age
to the peculiarly robust charms of
the Baroness Vaughan.
A curious contrast between the
Madonna-like face of Cleo and the
oness! Countenance °f the Bar-’
the le King U ' d Thf longer come near
Tho Baroness grabbori
everything. When he panned
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Cleo lived for some vear« ««
notoriety K)ng Leopo £ the
her. But prosperity 'had f ,
oped habits of luxury. Her monev
was fading away, and she i
that the sort of notoriety
gained does not keen » a hati
salary above its normal figtreX*
among the favorites of thl P
Th. l«.e KIM c'::,X„X * r “t
biam, who had 300 wives ’w2«
known as one who rewarded \
ty prodigiously. Europe w as fc
with stories of fortunes h e
carelessly handed out on those
who pleased him. vnose
Cleo designed a. special d
m the strange metal fi ligree
time and spire-like headdress of
the Siamese dancers She do
in the Siamese style,’ wkh'parS
improvements. She calculated that
the contrast between her opu en
charms and the meagre ones the
King was accustomed to see in his
queer little Siamese dancers might
lead to interesting results
The King was not fascinated
lated that 73 per cent of the ordinary food
we eat consists of water. Based on the
present high cost of food, he figured that
the water we obtain in this way in a sin
gle day costs us no less than ninety-three
cents!
Take, for instance, the butcher’s bill,
which is generally the most serious item
of the weekly domestic expenditure. It
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The Queer Costume in Which She Tried
to Captivate the King of Siam.
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when the thrifty housewife buys sirloin
steak, for instance, at twenty-five cents a
pound she is spending no less than eight
een cents of that sum on water. Yet such
is the case, according to the analytical
chemists, for uncooked steak contains no
less than 75 per cent of water.
Other kinds of meat are less fluid in
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He died, soon after
■ wards, doubtless from
other causes.
Two years ago Cleo
coyly admitted that
she felt the need of
making an income.
She announced that
she was working
hard as a sculptress.
She handed out pic
tures of herself work
ing busily in her lit
tle studio.
The z peculiar line
she had chosen was
making little stat
uettes in the Tanagra
style. They were usu-
their nature. Lamb, for instance, contains
only 64 per cent of water.
The flesh of different sorts of fish varies
considerably in the quantities of water it
contains, the figures ranging between 40
and 80 per cent. Dry wheaten flour con
tains, as a rule, about 12 per cent of
water, and wheaten flour would be voted
anything but a satisfactory article of diet
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once ro^ed ' n
luxury, has now
got to go back
to drudgery, her
youthful charm
gone, her supple
at limbs stiffened
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Cleo at the Typevzriter Composing Novels ;
Which Didn't Sell.
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sses‘ Hfif i,lst,nc t for dancing
? lve " f> er an understanding of
“ man figure, and she had
attuned industriously the technical
part ofljer art.
She intimated that she had suc
ceeded in selling many of her
statuettes for considerable sums
of money among the large circle
of wealthy men. whose acquaint
ance she had made while she was
the most admired dancer on the
Parisian stage.
Evidently a sculptor can go on
holding his public at an ago when
Her UUicked Protector
King Leopold Dead, the
Once Brilliantly
Beautiful Merode Ends
Her Fight with
Poverty by Returning to
one who depends
a the graceful
contour of her
limbs can no
longer do so. People do not turn
away from Hodin because his hair
is gray and he i.as a large bay
window.
It was an ingenuous idea on poor
Cleo’s part—to pass ner mature
years in the dignified calling of a
sculptress!
But the public did not want her
wi.res. The unsavory memory of
a dead King is not enough to make
them buy uniu '**ng works of
tlie majority. Bread, on the other
hand, is the acknowledged staff of life.
In this, its changed form, the flour has
received an addition of water until the
percentage has risen from 40 to 50 per cent.
Fresh eggs, the best of which cost sev
enty-five cents a dozen, contain 65 per
cent of water. Milk at ten cents a quart
is 88 per cent water. Strawberries, now
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A Youthful Pose of Cleo.
art. ii was only the human ol
ject of his attentions that inlet
ested them, when she was stil
fresh !n the royal favor.
So w she must go back t<
her old calling, she must fore*
her wearied and stiffening limb
with feverish activity of tin
stage dance and gyrate like mat
in a last desperate effort to win i
' t applatiso from the peoph
who m . ri-'’-’ over her
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selling at fifty cents a basket, are UO pet
cent water. Potatoes are selling at sl.7i
a bushel, about three cents a pound, ant
they contain 71 per cent water.
On this basis :t simple computation wil
show that the two quarts of water whic>
the body requires daily and which it re
wives principally in the form,of solid food-
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