Jewels on Her Toes

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22444, 13 June 1936, Page 6 (Supplement)

Jewels on Her Toes

Some of the new evening shoes made their first appearance recently in London —heelless and jewelled. In fact, they were not so much like shoes as primitive sandals. Their wearers took care to show them, since they were a proof positive of lovely feet.

gleo noted his smug expression of satisfaction. The mysterious fashion in which I set to work, withholding my knitting from tho public gaze, yet always contriving to leave some hint of its rapid progress about the house, confirmed his faith in my conversion without over enabling him to see my actual work. The Plot Thickens As his birthday approached, my activities increased even to the extent of neglecting tho cooking and housework. When he came homo ravenous in tho evening I would gasp and say, "Can it bo so late? I was completely wrapped up in my work." Confident in tho hope that ho himself would bo wrapped up in it before long, ho would smile and forgive. it would be hard to say which of us looked forward with tho greatest delight to the dawn of his birthday, but when at last tho great day came, I gave and Jio received tho parcel 011 which our thoughts had for so long been ceutred. Ho sighed contentedly as I coyly murmured, " I made it for you my very own self 1" His trembling fingers fumbled with tho string and tore oil" tho outer paper, but as he unfolded tho layers of tissue paper a slow flush crept over ilis features and tho smug iook ebbed out of his face. For there, nestling in the sott folds, lay a tie, a knitted tie, such a tie as is niore easily imagined than described 1 Kven in ropose its essential shapelessness was apparent, and its horizontal stripes of red, purple, green, and yelloustruck great clashing chords of colour. 1 smiled expectantly up into my husband's face. Tho least suspicion of a twinkle gleamed in his eyes. " All right," he said. " You win!