BOILED SHOE SOLE TO GAIN GENERAL’S LOVE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17881, 24 June 1926, Page 10

BOILED SHOE SOLE TO GAIN GENERAL’S LOVE.

SERBIAN WOMAN ARRESTED, BUT GOES FREE. Uolonel Stephen Stenovitsky. a high War Office official of Yugo-Slavia, was dressing in a hurry for a Government dinner in Belgrade, when he discovered one of his patent leather shoes missing. When his housekeeper said she had not seen it. Colonel Stenovitsky dashed out to the nearest shoemaker's to try to buy a pair. “IV got part, of your shoe here,” said the shoemaker when the colonel had explained his predicament. “Your housekeeper brought it. and asked me to rut the sole and throw away the rest” , Colonel Stenovitsky was very much angered and had the housekeeper arrested next day. ‘‘Yes, I stole it,” confessed the housekeeper tearfullv to a magistrate. “I love. Colonel Stenovitsky, and a fortune teller told me if I boiled a piece of the sole of bis shoe in his coffee every morn ing he would be sure to return my love before I had used the whole sole. I had only used half of it.” The housekeeper was released, but

the fortune teller was arrested and sentenced to a month's imprisonment. “It works.” he protested as he was taken to the cells. “It has already resulted in fifty happy marriages.”