Show g 8 Silvia's Missing Slipper By DOROTHY DOUGLAS u u O Copyright Co r 0 rF OF F COURSE under nde the e table wB was wa wasa a perfectly proper proper per place la e for a slipper to be If It had a toot foot In It But Dut there was no foot toot In this slipper Hugh Wake Wakefield eld discovered It under the gaming table at Monte Carlo Cario U Ut Ue had stooped thinking the thing he be caught sight of amidst a medley of feet teet to be a purse parse Everybody at th the tables Ables was wai f tap far r too oo engrossed In play pIa to notice Hugh M ss I be he slipped the slipper sUpper Into ample pocket Then Than be he took a nook look around the table to see iee It there there was WAI anyone antone whom he be might spot pot as the owner U If those crowds had been sitting round a second rate boarding house bouse table playing Old Maid the they couldn't have bave expressed less excitement The women WOOlen were all aU making a quiet bustness bust busl bustness ness of ot It lt jotting tiny marks down In books books' that might have bae been heen their their- grocery grocer stet list for tor tor the day Hugh was WILl disgusted On this his first visit to the famous Casino he had bad expected to see wild turmoil with women faint log Ing about the floor over o their losses IOMe and men dashing outside to fire the fatal shot Ills 1111 disappointment wa was u complete and when he arrived back home in Boston Doston his hll must exciting tale to tell was the theone one of the slipper and he told It often And the Honorable Alicia Stirling to whom the slipper Upper really belonged bad had long since forgotten her loss except ex n. except that Ih she k kept pt the mate because se It undoubtedly had brought her supreme supreme su IU su- su preme good luck For he Honorable Alicia had bad vel very nearl nearly broken brok n i the bank at it Monte Carlo and In her Iu r ex ex excitement had kicked of oft off a 4 1 slipper sUpper that pinched Sher her er pet itoe toe getting cup from from- the table she f forgot it It slipped Into he her car and was tras OS awa away before she gave It a a thought t ti X t It If Hug Hugh ha tl lot tb the place dull certainly AU Alicia Allda had not She hs had be been on per her Jar honeymoon And now now In their ancestral ancestral home way a over In lO southern hern K Kent n i In 10 s England Eng Eng- g. g land the tale of i the sUpper slipper reached tb their IrI ears arL 4 i Through a a I pelt perfect ct m mesh mesh- meshwork esh wor work of friends and anC acquaintances the Honorable David Duld had heard beard the etor story and had had bad now given It for what It W was S worb to his bis My M slipper I Dow trow absolutely fas- fas And SUvIa s going on her conc concer tour to tb the Jr 4 Romance at wort t Alicia I. I d but lt tb Ing of her tau plans She drove tn n toper to her jer I. stater I l studio dIo In Kensington next nest mpa moaning slag I and there thare 1118 plotted with Ith that I GeM ue beauty whose glorious mezzo soprano voice oIce was known bawn on known two continents I j A The outcome I of the thet plo plotting nr wu was that a Hugh Ug ome four weeks later got a note fr tr from m one who who signed her herself l f merely Owner of ot th per per a j The note read I have bave beard heard ina In Ina a roundabout way that you yon are In pos poa possession session scuba the mate of mate e t to to my slipper I Iam I. I am enclosing ng a ticket ticket to o Silvia ChI chester cheaters conce concert at Carnegie han ball for o to tonight 1 If fo you will wul UI just brown dull br wn at entrance nce after the concert I will show show you fout you the the mate to the slipper and make m r d I 1 ell tell 1 your U fit grief qu on tt 8 He B i wat glad of an an o to fo j hear Silvia BUrla ChiChester Chi Chi- cb Chester ster to get seats dor- dor logger ingher previous Bo enraptured f. was Hugh b with It It the glorious SUvia and her ber magnificent eDt voice t rg tall about ot the slip per pa- During all allot of- of Hughs Hugh's experience among women be had bad not yet found one who so completely satisfied ed his hll longings for what a woman really should be as 88 Silvia The slipper In his pocket recalled other Interests ts and nd he be made his way toward the artists artist's entrance The dull brown car was there and as Hugh approached the chauffeur o opened ned the thedoor d door or and said The lady will not be bea bea bea a moment The car was exquisitely appointed and hanging just lust where the flower vase ase should be was the mate to the brocade slipper Hugh laughed A second later tile the one In his own pocket had joined It It and Hugh sank back to await the the lady herself Of ot course eurse It was Silvia Sllvia Silvia Sllvia was laughing softly at the tw two slippers hanging side by side clde You Tou Efee ste t can caD prove pro my claim she else said The wa ways ways' of ot tho the world are ca- ca carious cu curious rious rious said laid Hugh t I had entirely forgotten this appointment In the sheer glory of your fOur arid add now DOW I 1 find nd yon iou yon yon- He switched he thoughts suddenly suddenly from from the words that would have slipped from his heart art ant and asked And how bow do do you like Ilke Monte MonteCarlo Carlo t j YI f Y fI I 1 have never been there that there that Is is- is tJ Hugh looked looked keenly keenly at her Then the slipper slipper-ilia not yours T r No confessed the famous singer BInger At it least It 1 is Iq mine now for my sister sis lis ter the Honorable Alicia Stirling gave It to me for luck luck- It has bu already brought me luck be he saidA said laId A cablegram that the Honorable Alicia received not so long after confirmed con con- firmed her suspicion suspicions Slippers going on second hone honeymoon honey honey- moon very moon very happy happ Spoon Measurements A dessertspoon will hold J I H I time as much as a teaspoon A tei teaspoon oon holds hohls Oi m 0 drops a II dessertspoon JI 9 drops and ond a tablespoon ISO drops |