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Show Fallen on Evil Days. I hear sad news about Isabelle, the flower girl of the Paris Jockey club in the palmy days of theThird empire, Mr. Whitohurst, then the Paris correspondent of The Daily Telegraph, introduced her to the notice of the English public, nnd both lu Paris and London she became quite a personage. She was not a pretty girl rather the reverse-but reverse-but she was what the French in untranslatable untrans-latable phrase call chic. She wore a fancy costume, stood at tho door of the Jockey club when no racs were on, and was always al-ways to be found at the foot of their grand stund ut Ixiugchumps when the grand prize was being run. It was there the Empress Eugenie saw her ilrst, bought her flowers, and took a fancy to her. In those now far oft days Isabelle on state occasions wore in her hat a gold buckle, with her initials in brilliant, a present from the empruss. When the empire fell and the Germans entered Paris Isabolle's Joyous reign was over. She was still the flower girl of the jockey club even under the republic, but It proved a different differ-ent state of things. Her fortnucs gradually gradu-ally fell away, till now I hear from one who knew her in her palmy days and has helped her in her distress that she has been sold up and turned out of her little shop, where to the last she sold flowers. Paris Cor. Liverpool Post. |