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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, January 2, 1897

She tells how she was engaged to dance in the altogether.

It transpired that “Little Egypt,” a couchee-couchee dancer, was hidden away while the police were there, but gave a highly improper dance afterwards, and that there has been a rattling row over the affair ever since.

(This Little Egypt was Ashea Wabe, not Fahreda Mazar Spyropoulos, who also used the stage name. Mark Twain had a heart attack watching Ms. Spyropoulos dance in 1898, one year after this story broke.)