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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 10, 1909)
THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE, JANUAKY 10, 1905. ruiff -ixr.rs. - . u 1 t - ,. I ' ; . " "" ' ; 'llif i Bilk . Nor D . SHE BECOMES POPULAR IN PAPJS. The versifier's rhymes this week shall vainly try to tell How Fluffy in six little days become the reigning belle. AH Paris bowed to innocence and charm and native worth; All Paris doffed its hat to one American by birth. She visited the Bon Marche, the Bon Marche was hers. The "House" presented her at once with lace and costly furs. "I wish to pay," dear Fluffy said. The partners bowing low, With head oblique and shoulders shrugged, said, "Non, non, non, nonl She could not cross a boulevard but escorts, hat in hand, Saw to it that the way was clear, with gracious smiles and bland. And when ihe Comedie Francaise she visited one day, The actors bowed as each ''came on' then went on with the play, Savans and military men and and statesmen authors, too All bent on honVing Fluffy, dear, did all that they could do And "Princes of he blood" left cards for Fluffy at her pension (At which unprecedented act all Paris was "attention"). Palais de I'ElyseeUhat is the place where Presidents receive And where you get champagne and sweets and then, of course, you leave), But Fluffv scent an afternoon, told rallieres all about it. And that she charmed the President, can anybody doubt it? She visited the Louvre and, too, the Luxembourg renowned, And crowds of "Cooks" forsook their guides, to follow her aroun Yes, Paris found her so unspoiled, so stylish and so pretty, They gave her fon a silver plate) the freedom of the citv (CornrtGwT. i. tr rut NEW YORK HRAU CO.) At Rgbto Rocnrtd
