The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-21
ACHILLES KIND OF GIRL,

Vulnerable in Her Heel She Saved
 Herself by Her Agility in Hopping.
 What might have been woful trag- ,edy was narrowly averted in Herald Square yesterday forenoon when a girl with a violin case and kanga> roo walk had the fOrethought not to get her French heel caught in the Thirty-fourth street line trolley track until after she had put on new pair of lisle thread stockings. When she tried to pull the heel free the foot came out of the low shoe. How close she had come to tragedy was seen when as a car whizzed by and squashed the shoe, the girl gazed with blanched face at her perfect stock inged toe and gasped with relief.
 Thank God, this didn't happen yes terday!"
 But far be it from the Broadway crowd to let the incident close there. The crowd grasped at once that well dressed girl stand on one foot like stork in the middle of Herald Square with only one shoe and violin case, offered possibilities-an closed in like grove of rubber plants.
 The girl and her violin case had got permission from the traffic squad to cross the square without going through the usual formality of first running three times around the traf- fic ropes, climbing over the Greeley monument and then going back down again, and was kangarooing along when, as she reached the track, some body threw out the anchor and she stepped as if struck with an idea. The cop suggested that she move on be- fore she broke some auto lamps against herself. The girl had the same idea, but her heel was inserted in the car track.
 There was a sudden banging of a trolley car bell. The girl slfrieked, | and as the car bore down upon her and some thoughtful persons started to gallop to her assistance the girl grabbed herself and the violin case and with 8 mighty pull was free. Un- fortunately, however, instead of the shoe breaking away her foot slipped out of the shoe. She hopped nimbly forward, the shoeless foot concealed some place or other, and a second or two later the car passed and the shoe was put out of business.
 Then, as the rubber trees began to spring up, the girl stood swaying un- steadily on one pin for a moment. | Suddenly she lit out, hop at a time, and her eyes were fixed so fondly on the swinging doors of a department store only few feet away that she didn't notice the curb and disaster before her. The remaining heel lpassed the time of day with the curt in her wild leap to the sidewalk and hopper went down.
 The violin case clammed to the Ipavement and as the lid flew open its Icontents fluttered among the rubber grove There was a picture of Kyrle Bellew In a cardboard frame with for get-me-nots painted on 1t; a curling Iiron the punctured stockings of the day before, various lace and muslin laffairs, a copy of the Yonkers States
 man and letter from home.
 Don't you dare!" she cried as ablig- ing young men tried to help her gather her treasures. She stuffed them back into the improvised travel
 ing bag as hurriedly as it is possible
 to chase things when only one leg is on the job. But she slammed the lid of the violin case at last and in three
 hops was inside the lobby of the de- partment store, where she promptly fainted.
 The cop had almost reached in his
 breast pocket for restorative when
 he caught himself in time and yelled for water instead. The water arrived in buckets and while everybody
 shouted directions the restorers turned
 to the work in hand so vigorously that
 the girl finally had to swim out oi consciousness to escape drowning.
 Its awful! Awful!' she sputtered
 in anguish as she came up for the
 third time. Her name, 1t was learned
 by divers was fatally drowned also
 her residence, and 1t was nobody business, allyWay-so there! And
 again balancing herself undecidedly
 she watched her chance at the swing ing do DTS and dived into the shoe de- partment.-New York Sun.