Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-07-23
A Twentieth Century Cinderella.

/ A Twentieth Century Cinderella.
( jack Berenson caught sight Of her a.
/ he was going TO the office after lunch
/ lie frequently caught sight of her, but
I hi. was the extent OF their aeqnaint-
ance. He had groaned more than once
to think conventionality forbade more
/ extended one. She was not the kind OF
girl with whom one might scrape up
/ howing recognition TO he later elaborated
into an interchange of cnmmonplaces
/ that might eliminate in permission to
call. Indeed, ii she had been, it Is safe
to conclude Berenson would not have
troubled his head about her, for he had
social position to maintain. Il good deal
Of personal pride and more than the
average sense of eXcmsNencss.
! "Hallo!" he said. suddenly, and stopped
\ short
The girl ahead had paused She was
evidently i'll Some predicament, for she
stopped as though to eXtrcate herself on
to pick MP an article dropped. Almost
al the same instant however a tremen-
dous dray, piled with boxes, bore down
upon her and ut the shout Of the driver.
who was striving to rein in his huge
( PTchorons, she sprang toward safety
and reached the sidewalk
Bereusou lei the dray pass Looking
! down directly on the spot where the girl
/ had hcsitatcd. he saw that which had
arrested her, and bending quickly, he
pulled out of he thick. black, sticky mud
On ahsurdly small rubber, with its wrin-
llle~ holding the arch of il high little in
step.
Welt" lac calculated. heres luck"
He felt ridculously elated. So pleased
did lie look in fact, that a friend iostling
him a he reached the opposite sidewalk
remarked his satisfaction.
wheat gone up, Bergcn.on:"
No rubber laughed Bcrenson. And
his friend walked OIL, wondering what
there was IN fishing footwear out of the
mire to make a fellow look so idiotically
pleased
1t was mighty muddy, tool" he com
mcntcd disgustedly
His uccu-ation could not I've made
against il an hour later. clean-cd and
polished to the highest possible degree
ly the man who kept the ehocetand in
Tie office building where Brren,ou had
a suite lie took his PRIZE upstairs and
deposited il. wrapped in tissue paper, ON
he top Of his desk
fthcu hc ~auntetVd Ia The window TO
! look over a, the skyscrapcr across the
way, whore at 4 certain window. in Il
certain tier, he had often seen Il certain
head. II was Il shapelv head. ringleted
rs CLOSE as a baby'o with sunny brown
oWi~. Indeed. 81 frequently of late had
he gone Ia his own easement To discover
e ii that particular bonnie head and rose
$ leaf taec We're within range OF his vision
l that his bushes, began TO suffer from
such ouatlc absences
Not that Jack Bcrcn,on was bother
ing himself about business During
+ these minutcs he stood. absorbed in day
a deam>, staring apparently at the unin.
o tercsting wall of an minteresting build
, ing, he was thinking for the most part
: how strange It was timt he who had
Z come gayly mp the road of life heart
whole and fancy free until he had
, reached his thrticth milestone. should
ali at once bc bc,ct by the most chin
/ Ciic3l hopes. the most futile desires. the
I most glorious OF chaotic maeinmgS.
q Il was iuuacy he told himself stark
b staring lunacv that he should 90 on his
- way with a bounding heart and feeling
, ot the most ~euscleS~ eNhiaratiou. ju,t
4 hecau~e he had passed Il orl,h figure on
thc sidewalk met HE indifferent GLANCE
$ at violet. black la~hcd ewes. look mo forth
p from beneath white brow. or calioht
the taut. elusive perfume OF her demme
2 garments And the worst of il WAS that
[! he could not bring himself ia be indie
nant with himself for being such fool!
N..fhl D.