The Portland daily press., 1880-04-23
The Reigning Beauty of Paris.
The Beautiful Peruvian Who Dazzles One
at First Sight. x
London Truth.1

London Truth.
The Western star has just risen from above
the horizon. Or all the beauties have ever
seen she is, in face, form, hair and complexion
the most beautiful.
thought she was Mrs. Milford, Commodore
Vanderbilt's granddaughter, when L was
struck by her wondrous beauty at dance
given by Nine. Georges Cochery. Ihave since
met her at the Elysee. and on last Wednesday
night at the Ministry of Public Instruction,
where gentleman who furnishes "high-life''
table-talk to a boulevard print, assured me she
was 'la belle Americaine from New York,
Mistress Milford. I"
The American girl, or young married woman
seems thoroughly to know what she is about,
and her presence of mind never deserts her.
The Beauty OF the season has nothing of this
in her, and understand why, when last night,
at the Grand Menier ball, heard her an
nounced as MADAME Gautherot." ''She is
not, then, from the States at ALL" reflected,
"but from Lima. Her husband is not Mr. Nit
ford. and she has not dollar of Commodore
Vanderbilts at her bankers. Those diamonds
were bought with the produce of sugar-cane
and coffee plantations. She was brought up in
sub-tropical ease and listlessness, and among
half-breeds who have no notions about women's
rights, higher planes of thought, and transcen-
dentalism. Her husband is rich importer of
colonial goods at Nantes, and happy to see her
enj oy herself in her own way.
Nine. Gautherot may be so much as a. Her
head is classical, and she wears her naturally
wavy hair in Grecian bandaux. If her nose
were an atom shorter, one might admire it
more; and still cannot say it is too long to be
oa1tO with ho OtI fao -
first sight one is literally stunned by her beauty,
which her dress sets off. In shape and color
the ensemble and the details are perfect. Nine.
Gautherot is statue of Canova transmitted
into flesh and blood and bone and muscle,
dressed by Felix, and coffee by his assistant
Emile. All her contours are harmonious
But she has yet to make the acquaintance of
the Graces and to obtain possession of the
girdle. There is sameness in her beauty
which, the tirst impression it causes one, places
her at disadvantage beside plain women with
expressive eyes and clever mouths. I have
seen her thrice in rapid succession. I know
she is the loveiest creature that ever beheld
coming out of the hands of a Paris dressmaker
But feel, nevertheless, that 1 have sufficient
ly feasted my eyes upon her.
Nine. Gautherot was dressed last night in
yellow silk dress, part of which was covered
with a network of yellow beads and small
almonds set in the classical style, brooch,
bracelets, and Greek bandelettes in her hair,
sparkling with brilliants. A small Diana cres-
cent was attached to the foremost bandelette
A murmur of admiration greeted her wherev-
er she went. The crowd opened, as if awe
struck with her beauty, to let her pass. She
was not apparently elated or excited by the
spontaneous homage paid her. A waxen i'm
age could not have been more unmoved. No
sentiment of coquetry was revealed in the
large, limpd, and completely expressionless
eyes. Nj. Parent, the architect called her
pauline BOnaparte resuscitated." "But OBJ
serve her ears" said an artist of Charivari.
"Pauline's were the despair of Canova; they
were monstrously ugly. Nine. Gautherot's
are simply perfect And so they were. The
texture" of the neck and shoulders was a
thing to throw painters into raptures 1t was
without morbidezza. but smooth as q rose pet
al. A delicate pink shade came through the
TRANSPARENT white skin,