A NEW FAVORITE.
A Paris writer says : — " A brilliant example of social, literary, financial.
and poliiical success is afforded by the 4 rise and progress, of the bewitching widow who has made for herself so conspicuous and commanding a position here under the Third Republic. Not regularly beautiful, but very pretty, and a mistress of the art of getting oneself up, very clever, very graceful, and possessing in the highest degree the undefinable quality of charm, Mme. Edmond Adam, daugter of an obscure country doctor, - brought up, in au obscure village, has made herself the Egeria of the fickle and critical capital to which she came without money or friends just twenty-three years ago. She is literally worshipped by all the leaders of the present Government Her receptions are crowded by all the leading writers, artists, and ' new men ' of the day. Her *New Review-' is the leading organ and mirror of the time in this region ; her comings and goings are chronicled as though she were a sovereign; sovereigns receive her and talk with her if she visit their scientific and poUtac-l * tiptops ' get up banquets, dinners', and soirees in her honor; and the iconoclastic municipal body of Paris has just given her maiden name, 'Juliette Lamber,' to a new street This ' leading lady 'of the Third French Republic has just opened her salon for the present winter, by the grand dinner, and her Wednesday evening receptions are expected to be more brilliant than ever, as ladies are to be admitted, and politics excluded. It is announced that she is about to make a visit to St, Petersburg ; and that, on her return, she will give a fancy dress ball that is to outshine all former entertainments of the kind in orginality and in splendour. So much, as 'Ouida' judiciously remarks in reference to a somewhat similar success, now at its pinnacle in London, for the absolute devotion of a lifetime to tho one sole, carefully calculated, and ever present aim of ' getting on !' " — ■__— ■ ■»
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Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1059, 10 March 1882, Page 2
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335A NEW FAVORITE. Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1059, 10 March 1882, Page 2
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