Show NOT PRETTY BUT CLEVER Hon Boit Mile Mlle Polaire the Ugliest Woman on the Stage any anywhere anywhere anywhere where turned Her lack of Feminine Charms to Good GoodHER GoodHER HER tiER BAD POINTS GIVEN GREATEST PROMINENCE Success Almost Instantaneous and the Actress Is Now Rich Richand Richand Richand and Much Sought After by bythe bythe bythe the Theatrical LATEST PARIS FASHIONS Special to Paris April 9 Mile Polaire a Frenchwoman Fr who prides herself on OIl being the ugliest woman on the stage today and one of If 1 not the moat most unattractive women so far for as features go goIn goIn In Franco has haa returned from a professional professional visit to London She She scandal scandalized the staid by her well let Jt us call H a t strange dancing It Is arly five years since this peculiar person proceeded to storm the Paris theatrical world From her keen ob observation observation observation of ot the conditions surround surrounding lug ing her at that time rather obscure position she evolved the conclusion that the pretty girls in the ranks of ot the theorus chorus cOrus orus of which she was a member remained generally speaking unno unnoticed She therefore said to herself I Iam IRm am Rm so utterly ugly that I have decided to attempt a new lead I will accentuate ate att Jf Jr f possible my bad points of form arid and feature to such an extent that even future generations shall speak of me as the hideous Ugliness Personified She Sh thereupon proceeded to encase her extremely ugly legs logs In short socks smilar to those thORO worn by children that their l ugliness might be the more apparent apparent ent She wore very large shoes while sh Eh took car caro to expose her arms which are long and amI thin Her wiry thick black hair she cut short crowning It with the most eccentric headgear Al AI Always Always ways thin and lanky In Jn body she re reduced reduced reduced her waist line Une until she declared It U to be the smallest of ot any living woman The result r sult of oil all this clever and pre pro premer mer advertising was to launch her tin In a high wave of o success Plays are now written for her especially People crowd the theatre to witness Ss her herS S while they stop and stare at her b r In the streets She has a beau beautiful 1 residence on the Champs and so great has haa been her public suc sue success cess that London theatrical managers are besieging her with offers of ot en on engagement What more could the heart of or an ambitious actress ask Oh yes yesA yesA yesA A season In New York and other elites cUes In the United States She may be seen Slen there soon although no announcement to that effect has been made Vanderbilt Yacht for Sale The French public are aro wondering what is back of or the advertisement In Parish English papers announcing that W K famous steam yacht Valiant one of the finest in the world Is for tor sale sala by private treaty to quote the tha wording of ot the advertise advertisement advertisement advertisement ment which Is regarded as the latest thing In expression among those who live and move In the swag swagger swagger ger world The Vanderbilt family men and women have hae always been fond of ot ya 8 and no annual cruise erue cru e of ot the New York Tork Yacht club has baa ever been considered a success unless the flag of the Vanderbilt family was seen flying in the fleet There is absolutely nothing to fear Visitors can come to Paris without the tha thelast least last feeling of ot uncertainty or apprehension apprehension hension as to the sanitary conditions c cf f the city following the recent floods is 15 the assertion made mode by M Juillerat hip hief of ot the bureau of ot hygiene The leaning which the city received at the hands bands of ot the authorities has han placed the ity ty in a healthier condition than t an ever everin know in its history The city cay water waters s is not contaminated and the thep p and washing and scouring I 1 1 is 25 ft Paris what you ou Americans hu ly refer reter to as a spotless town Continued on Page Five NOT PRETTY BUT CLEVER I Continued From Page One when speaking of some of your own clean dean ethos at times In this respect the flood was a blessing in disguise for forIt forIt fort health It t has given Paris a clean bill of ot French Fashions Fancy has run mad absolutely mad madin madin in many of the new shapes for f r hats shown for spring wear wea Abruptly turned up at the back and producing a n poke bonnet effect In n front high pat effects laden with again a high crown loaded with bright red wheat where grown heaven alono alone knows held hold in do place ph e with wide black velvet ribbons topping off of a curiously dented wide de brim turbans high crowned and covered with quantities of ot flowers turbans wide and with tulle everything anything seems E to bo be 1 0 the supreme effort of ot the day Milliners are fairly besides themselves what with the orders on hand and the effort to launch novelties for tor this Is the momentous time for getting out styles Indeed many of the leading cannot cam ot be seen without an appointment being made several days In advance As I wrote some time ago the buyers for large American and foreign shops appear first on or the scene and the ex excellent excellent excellent discrimination in the selections I made especially lines of ot styles being I Imade made up for them Then come the buy buyers bu buers buyers ers from the provinces and lastly the who demand frocks and hats for the flower show and salons and the great race meetings of ot the summer Windmill Bow BowA A wrinkle In fashion which Invariably Invariably invariably r bly pleases Is a windmill bow worn at the tho back of the hat When worn orn In front It ft is termed the Alsatian bow j The mild mUd weather Invites the tho wear wearIng wearIng wearing Ing of cloth with which black blaek hats are chiefly worn One mil miI milliner liner assured me that she Is IB making up nothing but hats In black Just at this season for tor they are always In style styler r and nd In good taste and a pleasing I change from the riot of color which Is teen seen so much In just now Particularly charming is the after afternoon afternoon afternoon noon gown gOW by Laferrere made of at printed chiffon the new material The evening hat of black Chantilly lace by Alphonsine Is an especially attractive creation 0 e 4 I |