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PHOTO FURNISHES A CLEM
Jules Dupree Traces Woman He Saw
In Paris After Overcoming
Difficulties.

NJ. Jules Duprec. artist and TO
manifest of Paris and :he whole wide
world, has ended his quest for his ideal
girl. says the Philadelphia Press.
After n year OF travelling in all parts
| of the globe. from the gay boulcvards
TO the pyramids. from ,he proSaic
streets of Philadelphia to the bound
less plains Of the far northwest. all the
while carrying with him Il tiny snap
shot photograph rs his only clew, he
has found her.
Better Yet. he has married her. They
recently sailed on Transatlantic
steamer for the French capital. The
living. smiling woman has replaced the
snapshot in Dupree's glad heart. and
he is proud and happy beyond words
at the wonderful end of an almost
hopeless search.
The girl was Miss Constance Mo
guard Leaning. The artist found her
at last in the doorway Of her fathers
ranch house outside of the little town
of Wolf in Wyoming. just over the
border line of Montana among the Big
Horn mountains. Two ThiladeluhianS
who had ScDffcd with every one else
when Dupree'S story became known in
Philadelphia three months ago We're
the means TO his cnd-thc we'll known
lawyers Joseph L. Rogers and John Il.
X. Scott. who We're roughng 1t at
Wolf and met him 10y chance.
Things like that don't happen now
adayS" said those who read of the
Frenchman's love quest when he was
in Philadelphia in July. The age of
romance is over. He'd best give up
ana 20 back 10 Paris
Bit il seems things like that do hap
pen. and here and there a struggling
glmmcr of romance remains.
1t was on July when Il tall. shapcly
Partisan. with exquisite raiment AMI
black vandyke beard. registered at the
st. James hotel as Jules Duprec. Par
is That evening he called Manager
Miller of the hotel into Il quiet corner
and showed him a photograph. Had
Miller ever seen the original? he asked
Perhaps M dinner. at dance or Il func-
ton in the hotel. She had been there
once? No:
First saw Ideal.
One October day in the previous year,
NJ Duprcc told Mr.. Miller. he was
standing in front of the tomb of Napo-
leon. in his native city Paris when 4
party of American tourists CHANGED
along. Among them was IL young girl
just entering wOmanhood. When the
artists gaze rested upon her he real
lied that here was the ideal he had
been dreaming of all his life. He made
Il quick sketch of her from memory as
her party passed on
y week later he again encountered
the tourists. They were at drinking
fountain on one of the bOulevardS in
the citys suburbs. This time Dupree
had n camera. He snapped the girls
head as she was raising a cup to her
lips The next moment she entered Il
big motor car and was whirled from
sight.
As the days passed the girls image
proved more and more alluring to Du-
pree. He made resolve to find her |
and meet her if it took him all the |
rest of his life. He got upon the track |
Of the party and followed them to |
Cairo. But he arrived there just three |
days after they had left for parts un-
known.
Then he returned to Paris disheart- |
ened. but he met several Americans |