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Show SHOP GIRL IS CROWNED QUEEN OF QUEENS Special Cable to The Tribune. PARIS, April G. For one brief day Marguerite Paradies, a pretty youn' shopgirl, hasad Paris at her feet Clad in a wliitu silk dress and wearing a golden crown and a gorgeous purple mantlo trimmed with ermino, sho rnado her triumphant progress through Parie as queen of queens enthroned in a lofty car in tho center of tho Lenten procession. proces-sion. All tho rest of the year Mile. Paradies Para-dies is at tho feet of others, for she is employed in a largo boot shop in the Rue Lalayetto, but on this great dhy, chosen queen for hor beauty from among all the other queens elected by tbo different Paris districts and markets, mar-kets, sho surveyed her fellow-citizens from tho height of a fhronc. Sho was kiftscd by the prefect of police, who made, her a gallant littlo speech; by tho; president of the municipal council, who; gave hor a beautiful broorh and took hor in to lunch at the Hotol de Villo; by tho chief secretary of too president 01 tho republic, who clasped, a handsome bracelet on her shapolv arm, and by the editors of the Paris newspapers, upon whom her majesty paid the customary cus-tomary courtesy call. Tho queeu was mounted on a lofty throno in a golden car drawn by fix horses, and her cortege was long and picturesque. Thero was a car of the Gioconda. with an immense reproduction reproduc-tion of the famous picturo towering above an acroplano manned by apaches and surrounded by scarecrows in tho uniform of Louvre , attendants. The music Tras supplied by a dozen bands in evory variety of costume. Tho queen of nneens -eco'vri .1 ; lea did welcome, which sho acknowledged by throwing kisses to the ruwu Alter a banquet, her majesty's reign of twen ty-four hours terminated with tho great bill. |