The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-03-28


What q darling thing it is!"-un.
able to repress my honest admiration.
Light as one of those snowflakes out
yonder in the night. What q proud
arch the instep has! All, but it is a
high-bred shoe, fit to tread on the
heart of any man. Lovely atom!"
She stirred again. l went on: =
ut might really belong to princess,
but only In a fairy-book; for all the
princesses I have ever seen couldn't
put a hand in shoe like this, much
less foot. And when 1 declare to
you, Oh my honor, that have met
various Processes in my time, you
will appreciate the compliment I pay
to Cinderella"
The smile on her lips wavered and
trembled, like puff of wind on placid
water, and was gone.
Leave it," she said. melting, 'and
be gone"
Il couldn't 1t wouldn't be gallant
at all, don't you know. The prince
himself put the slipper on Cinderella y
But this is a modern instance, and
prosaic world. Men are no longer
gallants, but business men or club
gossips; and you do not look like a
business man."
Il never belonged to a club in my
life"
"You do not look quite 80 unpopular
as all that"
A witty woman: To be pretty and
witty at the same time-the gifts of
Minerva and Venus in lavishment!
Besides, it. is all very improper
she added.
''The shoe?" / cried.
"No; the shoe is proper enough
musingly.
"You admit it, then!"-joyfully.
Il refer to the dialogue between two
persons who have not been intro.
duced."
"Convention! Formality: Detest
| able things, always setting Romance at
arms length, and making Truth desire
! to wear fashionable clothes"
Nevertheless, this is improper.
she repeated
"Why. it doesn't matter at ALL"
! said negligently. I'VE both have been
invited to this house to dance; that is
to say, our hostess would not invite
any Objectionable persons. What you
mean to say is, unconventional. And
l hate convention and Formally"
Are you a poet, then? "-with good
natured defision.
"Oh, no; / have an earning capacity
and a pleasant income
She really laughed this time; and
vaguely recalled pearls and coral and
murmuring brooks.
Wont you please do that again."
asked eagerly.
But there must have been something
in my gaze that frightened MirtE
away, for she frowned.
| Family came the music from the
ballroom. They were playing the
waltzes from The Queens Lace
Handkerchief The agony of an ex
! temporization seized me.
'Strauss!" l cried, fourishing the
slipper. THE blue Danube, the moon
shine on the water, the tittle-tattle OF
alone! Romance, love, off to the
war!
1T is far cry to Cinderella" she
interrupted.
"Ah, yes Music moves me sc
easily"
Indeed! 1t is scarcely noticeable.
-slyly.
Are you Cinderella. them"
| Il do not say SO"
will you dance with me to prove
it one way or the other?"
Certainly not,"-rather indig
nantly.
| why not?''
There are any number Of reasons,
she replied.
Name just one"
II do not know you
You ought to."-with 4 double
meaning which went for absolutely
nothing.
| MY angle of vision obscures tina,
idea"
! IF you will stand up >" hest
tatingly suggested.
Il am perfectly comfortable where
doorway.
| Il am convinced that you are the
Cinderella; I cannot figure it GU,
otherwise"
do not figure at all; simply leave
the Shoe"
that. Besides. wish to demollsh the
pumpkin theory. It's all tommy-ro
about changing pumpkins into chart
OTIS. unless you happen to be success
full pie-merchant."
She bit her lips and tapped hel
the bloomy cheeks?)
Perhaps l am only one of Cinder
elias elder sisters"
THAT would be very fortunate
You will recollect that the elder sis
tiers cut Off their"
Good gracious!"
Cut off their toes in the"mad effor,
to capture the prince" continued.
But am not trying to capture an,
prince, not even fairy prince; and
| wouldn't"
Cut off your toes? ?" suggested ques
tioningly.
"Prolong this questionable converse
ton, only"
"You cannot stop it till you have the
SHOE" said.
"Only." she went on determinedly
Il am so comfortable here that l d.