AN AMERICAN BEAUTY.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 359, 8 March 1902, Page 4

AN AMERICAN BEAUTY.

London, Jan. 11. Miss Gladys Parker Beacon’s popularity in London is unprecedented. The beautiful American girl, not yet twenty, has charmed the masculinity, and also the femininity of the most exclusive circles of English society, and, indeed, of the whole Continent. The British sovereign so greatly admires Miss Deacon that at the

little luncheons, tea parties and dinners constantly being given for him by his immediate entourage she is always one of

the most honored guests. With King Edward VII. so deeply sensible of her attractions, with the Crown Prince of the German Empire love sick for her and whisked away by the Kaiser in the unnecessary fear that he might contract a left-handed matrimonial alliance with her, with the women who are absolute arbiters in the world of society her ready chaperons, and with the most famous artists of Franco and England engaged in putting her physical loveliness upon canvas and speaking in raptures of her, the New York girl may well be said to have won a truly remarkable success on this side of tho water.

In addition to her material perfection, Miss Deacon is otherwise a credit to her country, for she is wonderfully clever in conversation, has command of English, French and German, carries herself with

irreproachable grace and is without affectation. This combination of qualities and gifts is, of course, rare, and to fall under her charm is to lose wonder that she has made so brilliant a success in the world of fashion.

Miss Deacon is tall and of the most perfectly classical Greek type imaginable. Her figure is slender and graceful, with shoulders and bust of exquisite modelling. The contour of her throat, of her features and head is pi’onounccd absolutely beyond criticism by the artistic brotherhood, even when judged by tho severest examples of classic beauty. Her eyes are largo and of a deep gray and are tinged with violet, while her eyebrows are arched, delicately pencilled and several shades darker than her hair, which is of the purest and deepest golden, clustering around her low forehead in natural waves beyond the art of the coiffeur to simulate.