Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 211, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1917 — Modern Cinderella. [ARTICLE]

Modern Cinderella.

The day of good fairies Is not over! Several months ago, Miss Minerva Menke was a passenger on a Madison avenue street car In New York city. As she stepped from the car one of her pumps became wedged In a corner of the step, and her foot slipped out of It She did her best to make her plight known, but at that moment the fairy must have shut the conductor's ayes and covered his ears, for Be gave two vigorous tugs on the bell rope, and the car carried Miss Menke's pump away, leaving her pumpless In the street She hobbled to a drug store at the corner and telephoned tor a taxicab to take her homg. A few blocks farther on. Jack Wiltson noticed the pump as he was leaving the car. He slipped it Into his pocket—lt Is a No. 2— and when he reached home telephoned an advertisement to the New York Herald, which tells the story with pardonable complacency, requesting the young woman who lost the pump to write to him. Miss Minerva wrote, and Jack called to return the pump. He kept on calling more and more frequently, and now they are married and will doubtless “live happily ever after."—Youth’s Companion.