Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-23

League Boots and of Cinderellas Lit
tie Glass Slippers, but l dare say you
have. never heard of the Princess PITS
shoes. Yet they were quite as wonder
ful in their way as those others that
YOU read of in your story books. They
went all the way through the air from
hundred gated Thebes, on the Nile, 10
Memphis, almost six hundred miles,
and they carried their mistress ever SO
many leagues over the lotus blossoms
and the pOrphyry courts OF her Egyp-
1ian home and yet they are not worn
out Made of the most fragile material
the soles formed of strips OF palm-
leaf neatly fitted together and FUR
nished with bands of the stem OF the
papyrus, prettily lined with red-colored
linen with a queer looking picture
painted on it and a little gilt ornament
at the ends of the curved pOints-these
slippers have outlasted the stone tenn
pies and palaces that gloWed so gor-
geously in the old Egyptian land, when
Pit walked among their newborn ma
jesty. They are more than three thou
sand years old; is it not wonderful?
And more wonderful than anything else
about the story is-that it is "a truly
story"
One bright morning PIT, who was
princess, was dressing W ~ ouI. "A
dozen maids We're running hither and
thither for her jewels, her best robes
and her sandals, while dark-eyed girl
stood plating her long black hair.
Ever and anon PIT would look at
little hand glass Of silver to see the eff
feet.
There. LuXora that will do she
said to her tire woman, as the tress
at her left side, plated with gold
thread, dropped from the slaves hands.
'Now bring me that saffron-colored
robe, with the golden belt and straps.
Osiria, that collar of pearls and those
armlets and bracelets inlad with laps-
lazuli and turquoise. Nay, Nefertsu,
not those, but the sandals Ornamented
with the head of Mother Isis"
The girl addressed as Nefertsu blush
ed. hestated, and at last stammered:
MY mistress, l can find but one of the
Isis headed shoes: it's mate is gone
Thou hast mislad it-but no mat
ter: though barefoot do I go today, for
will wear no other" declared the
princess
May, my lady, it were not seemly,"
cried her maidenS.
Did not my t-grandmother
Nitaker, go barefoot a whole year and
a day because there We're no shoes
not a princess, too? 1 say barefoot
will I go until l get pair I fancy"
and PIT stretched out her beautiful
pearly feet and glanced at them with
the least bit of vanity.
No more could be said. So arrayed
in her soft colored linen robes, her man.
tie of embroidered Babylonan cloth.
her necklace of gold. and head dress
of fine feathered work, lace ana jewels,
but with her small feet sipperless, Pit
went down into the broad court, and
mounted her palanquin of wicker and
lacquer work. which four huge Lybian
slaves bore whenever she went abroad.
On her way home, the princess
stopped at a cobber's shop. near the
Sacred way. With deferential hands
the 'tradesman handed to his high born
patron pair after pair of his costly
stock. Sandals woven of river grass
and of palm leaves. sandals of leather
and sandals of glass, sandals ornament
ed with the god Osiris We're giver her
for inspection, but none suited her
Have you no others?" she asked
'These are all too large
Il have pair oh, Princess of Egypt
that We're made for the Lady Termu-
this. but they did not fit her She said
they were much too small for the feet
Seven Rivers
Pit, the princess, smiled
They may fit me- she sail. my
feet are very small"
The sandals We're produced. The,
were indeed dainty things bat the,
We're a perfect fit for the princess foot
Il will take Them" she said "Youl
prce?
Seventy silver rings"
The money was counted out by Pti
attendants, and the pricess Went hom
with the slippers. There was not an
other just such pair in all Egypt
PIT. as you may imagine, yer.
proud of them, and very choice o
them. too, and Wore them only o,
state occasions. Seventy silver ring
could not be spent every day for
pair of shoes even by daughter @
the Pharaohs
The river Nile swept up close to tn
garden of the villa where Pti lived
and one afternoon the princess and he
maids walked down the paths to tn
marble pier. PIT was dressed in he
best array. and one of her maids hel
an umbrella cover her head, lest tn
hot sun might too rudely kiss the fai
cheeks of the royal lady. OF course
she had on her jeweled slippers, an
as she walked she daintily held he
robe so that they might be seen. Their
was not speck of dirt on strap c
sandal.
The waters of the great river spar
kled IN the sunshine hut where a grov
OF palm trees tossed their branche
over the waves great shadows lay.
seemed such a cool, secluded SPOT thu
the mafdens We're tempted to take
bath. With much noise and merr
laughter they went down among III
callas and lotus blossoms.
PIT and her maids were very mer1
and We're in the water a great Will
AS they sported in the cool curra1
they an eagle sWoop down uno