Fencing has a most brilliant and enthusiastic exponent in the person of Baroness de Meyer, who is also, by the way, an expert swimmer and a clever rider. Attired in a workmanlike costume of knickerbockers and long tunic, the Baroness every morning has a bout with her fencing-master, and frequently enters the fencing contests organised on behalf of society ladies. The Baroness is a typical cosmopolitan. She is by birth an Italian, and was born Princess Olga Carac-ciolo. She spent her early days in Paris, and married Baron de Meyer, whose beautiful pictures and photographic studies were so much admired some years ago. The Baroness is also noted for her beautiful and artistic dressing, and her love of music. Her husband, too, is passionately fond of opera. Their house in Cadogan Gardens is a wonderful place, an Italian palace, in fact; while they also spend part of the year at a splendid old palazzo on the Grand Canal at Venice.

Baroness de Meyer

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