YOUNG AT FIFTY.
There are a couple of good stories in the August “ Blackwood ” of a famous French danseuse, Mile. Quihnard. Mile. Guimard determined* when she was young, that she would postpone growing old ; so she bad her portrait taken at the age of twenty, placed the picture on her dressing-table by the side of her glass ami painted herself up to it every morning until she was fifty. By that means she remained twenty during thirty years. It was she, too, who, at sixty consented to give a final representation for her friends on condition that the curtain should be kept down to the level of her waist, and that the spectator should see nothing of her but her legs, which, although her body was so thin that she was called “the skeleton of grace,” had retained in age the beauty of their youthful form.
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Western Star, Issue 1292, 27 February 1897, Page 1 (Supplement)
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146YOUNG AT FIFTY. Western Star, Issue 1292, 27 February 1897, Page 1 (Supplement)
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