Show 16 W ia 7 OV z N jaice blice 13 palmer UL ballroom on new years eve tied THE was filled to capacity it sparkled with a thousand lights displaying a brilliant contrast to the raging blizzard without gold and silver bells and colored streamers mingled with pine spruce and holly berries represented the glorious new year transforming the ballroom into a panorama of luxury similar to that ot of a kings court blizzard or no blizzard it seemed as though all thornton and neighboring suburbs had bad turned out for this great occasion there were the davis girls salling beaming arid and looking beautiful in shimmering blue satin trimmed with rosebuds then there were the thomas sisters thre ot of them the orchestra was frantically playing preliminaries from poet and peasant it swung into wabash blues thus delighting and satisfying the gay party meanwhile david ralston kalston was hastening to the ball by airplane from a distant city lie he was frantically pilot ing his plane through the snowstorm to the home of nancy Grit graham hilin whom be had bad promised to accompany to the ball ile he making much head bead way and despaired of arriving on time by much skillful maneuvering he be finally anally saw the lights of thornton Thorn toa gleaming through the snow heading I 1 oh wont you come in said julia in a soft sweet voice toward lt it he soon euon landed in an open geld field dear a neighboring farmhouse julia rensley better known as little jewel was sitting with her grandparents in the dull living room of the farm shack by the roadside julia had been thinking of the great ball in town and wishing she were there hut but she knew there was not a ghost of ft a chance of even getting a glimpse of its grandeur all ali thought david TU ill stop at this farmhouse and telephone nancy unable to locate a doorbell david rapped loudly and to his great surprise se the door swung open immediately there stood little jewel in all her innocence and surprise david stepped back against at her superb loveliness oh ob wont you come in said julia in a soft sweet voice yes yes ye certainly said david greatly confused 1 I just arrived by airplane on my way to the ball oh ob how delightful exclaimed julia an airplane I 1 where Is it may I 1 see it david rather embarrassed by jullas julias sweetness stammered a reply to tier her questions and then asked permission to use the telephone Is nancy at homel home no she left for the ball an hour ago david hung up and somehow was greatly relieved just then grandma entered to see what it was all about she soon learned that david was a son of her old friend dick ralston and he was most welcome this to la my granddaughter julia rensley nen sley better known as little jewel said grandma smiling how do you do jule said david gazing into the depths of her deep blue eyes 1 I 1 am so glad to know that you are not a stranger so glad replied little jewel now grandma do let us attend the ball I 1 was to accompany nancy graham and came all the way from cole ville to do so and then she stole off without me let me be the prince and jule the cinderella like in the fairy tale only she wont lose her slipper and she wont have to leave at midnight said david grandma gave her consent but tears came to the eyes of little jewel ab she realized she a thing to wear to a grand ball come upstairs to ray my room dear and ill dress you up for the ball 1 I said grandma 1 I am sure dave will be delighted when he sees you an hour later when the storm had subsided the merrymakers merry makers at the new years ball were startled at the roaring of an airplane in the distance soon there was commotion without the draperies parted and in stepped cinderella Cinderell aI 1 the cinderella of notion fiction had come to eifel the music softened and some one shouted cinderella I 1 just then the great clock began striking the midnight hour and the bells bella together with all the other earsplitting ear splitting contrivances rang ont olit the old id and in the new as never before and cinderella was lost in the crowd as she waltzed off in the arms anus of david C ft union |