Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1899 — History’s Cinderella [ARTICLE]

History’s Cinderella

Cinderella Is not entirely the product of fiction. The Princess Rbodopis, of Egypt, wss the first Cinderella. She was bathing In the Nile, and a bird, which Strabo calls an eagle, flying past picked op one of her slippers, or sandals, flew away with It, and dropped it on tte lap of Prince Psammetlcus, who was holding a Court of Justice in Memphis. He was so struck by tte dainty mannfacture aud small size of tte sandal thot, being then in search of a bride, he at once vowed that he would only wed tte mahlen whose foot fitted the snndaL There were two elder daughters of the first marriage who greatly envied her good fortune—and here we have all the essentials of the story.