Many Suitors to Choose From.
The Paris correspondent of the ' Chicago Times ' writes :— I hear that Mile, Marthe Soucares, the charming young lady who won the first prize in the beauty show of Spa, has received within the pa3t week no less than 100 and odd offers of marriage from bankers and young scions of our titled aristocracy. There are, I am told, ten marquises and a dozen counts and viscounts in the field for the lady's hand. She has not yet made her choice, but it is said that she will pick out the lucky man from the belted knights of the Faubourg St. Germain. Mile. Soucares is a native of Guadeloupe, and is a dusky-skinned, dark-eyed blonde, possesstinga faultless form and a figure" a little ovor the average height. She has, it seems, a very graceful head, which might j tempt the brush of the most eclectic of painters. She wore [at Spa a rose-coloured the bust of which wa3 adorned with bouquets a la Louis XV., the handiwork of one of the most fashionable coutouriereß of the Bue de la Paix. The Spa jury appeared to have had a decided weakness for blondes, nearly all of whom were favourites at> the exhibition. The show itself was, however, a failure* I
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Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 338, 30 January 1889, Page 4
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213Many Suitors to Choose From. Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 338, 30 January 1889, Page 4
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