UESDAY, JUNE 1, 1943
SUMMER SESSION KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE THREE
Some Red Shoes
(The following short story was written by Miss Phyllis Jones, graduate of the department of journalism this past spring. Miss ones is now a reporter on the Hutchinson Daily News).
She took the narrow strip of yellow paper between the thumb and forefinger of each hand and lifted it to her mouth and pressed lips against it with the sucking sound of a rubber cap being removed from a bottle. Then she extended her pudgy arms full length in front of her and gazed at the red cupid's bow her lips had made. She rolled her eyes up at the three, gangling, colored men grinning over her.
"Theah," she exclaimed, "Ah've endorsed it," and spread her ips wide for a shreik of high. $ ^{ \textcircled{4}} $ can Ah've endorsed it.
Like a minstrel chorus the three men joined her, laughingoudly, slapping their thighs andliving her three sympatheticnudes in the ribs.
"Ah ain't no check, honey," one emailed with a cheerful wink, "out you can sho endorse me." He broke into deep, bellowing laughter. The other men laughed too, and slapped him on the back.
"Not this gal; she's thu with men!" exclaimed the endorser and waving her check at them with a broad smile, she half-ran, half-stumbled down the street.
She continued this jerky pace, grinning and panting, halfway down the block until she came almost opposite a shoe store. Then, oblivious of honking motorists, she cut through the traffic, still waving her check like a banner. In the middle of the street she stumbled and almost fell; while she wasatching herself the cheek blew out if her hand and landed somewhere midst the stream of cars. In a second she was up and waving both mms at the passing drivers. Heres had grown wide and wild.
"Hey, you, stop!" she screamed, Stop them cahs; I got mah whole weeks wages—mah fuhst weeks ages out theeh. Stop them cahs!" a desperation she rushed out in front of a car which had driven up after the first jam of cars had assessed. The car's brakes screeched loudly and the driver was thrown forward against the steering wheel, with a cry of joy she saw the strip yellow paper, pasted to the pavement, unhurt except for the added dorsements of several tires.
She stooped quickly and snatched it, and said, half-laughing, half-bobbing, "Yo' is mo' trouble than ten-weeks-old baby, check 'b' we me, 'cause Ah knows." Clutch-it tightly in her fat, black fist, e stumbled on toward the shoe ore.
Once inside the shoe store she
sk heavily into one of the leather
dadded chairs, panting vigorously,
"Can I show you some shoes?"
ced one of the two, neat, little,
I men whose business it was to
and sell shoes.
Jpon hearing this routine shoee question her face lighted up and she grinned radiantly up at the le old man. "Man, yo' suhtinly
can. Ah jus' got mah cheek from the Sunflowen Wuks wheah Ah been wukin' fo' a week now, and Ah wants to buy shoes with it, some raid shoes to be persistely about it. Effen you'll just wait half a minute, Ah's gonna produce mah numbah sebenteen." She dug into the sagging pocket of her old green sweater and soon pulled out a grimy, wadded ration coupon book, "C'mon sebenteen," she cried gleefully as she began unwadding it, "baby needs new shoes."
"Here's a nice, little sandal," announced the little old man, holding up a slick, red shoe, which appeared to be one confusing maze of straps. "No, suh," she told him vehemently, "That ain't jus' what Ah is lookin' fo', Show me some more."
"Maybe you'd prefer something like this," suggested the little old man hopefully, holding up a shoe composed of two narrow red straps and a towering red heel.
Her eyes gleamed, "Now fo' a woman with good lookin' laigs who don't have to carry a child aroun' that shoe is sho' a come-on. Ef Ah was in a real reckless sperrit. Ah could buy that shoe, but Ah aint'. What Ah gotta have is something flat but with plenty of style about it, a shoe fo' dancin' an' wukin' and luggin' a child." The little old man gasped and looked at his colleague. His colleague pretended to be rearranging the bedroom slippers in their case.
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"Well, I just don't believe—" the little old man began uncertainly; then he blinked his little, old eyes very quickly, "We have just the shoe you want," he informed her proudly, and began running his eyes over the boxes which lined the walls, drawing a box out at intervals, lifting' the lid to glance quickly and shutting it again with that particular professional touch shoe clerks have for opening and shutting the wrong shoe boxes. "Here we are," he announced with satisfaction, deftly drawing out a white box, "just your size too. This little number is selling very fast. It's quite a favorite of the college crowd," he poised it carefully on the palm of his hand for her to inspect.
Her face glowed as she paused for a moment of silent admiration, then she exclaimed, "Yes, suh, that's it. That's jus' what Ah been lookin' fo."
"Here, let's try them on," the lit-
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the, old man purred and gingerly slipped off her worn, cracked old shoes with their run-over heels.
"Shall I wrap them up for you?" asked the little old man. "We ask. Ah don't think so."
Waggoner graduated from the University in 1941, instructed in chemistry for two years and is now a supervisor in the Sunflower Ordinance works. He was a member of Alpha Chi Sigma fraternity.
Miss Eleanor Schooling of Lawrence and George M. Waggoner of Ellinwood are to be married tonight at 8 o'clock in the parish house of St. John's church. The wedding will be informal.
"Ain't those old things awful lookin!!" she exclaimed in digust, "Got them at a rummage sale last fall. That was befo' Ah was wukin'. These袜sainsn't no mo' good either," she reflected, noticing the black of her toes and heels gaping through the faded green of her ankle socks. She took them off and tucked them in her old shoes.
Miss Schooling graduated from the University with a bachelor of science degree in 1942. She majored in economics.
Before the mirror, she turned right, then left, then minced around in a circle, quite forgetting the two little, old men, she began dancing around and around, watching her feet with fascination.
"No suh, Ah don't think so."
"Now, let's see." With satisfaction she slipped her plump, short feet with their flat arches into the red shoes. One pale pink toe-nail and the end of her black toe protruded out the opening in the front. A caloused, black heel, lighter toward its sole, showed below the strap across the back. She beamed at her foot in admiration and quickly slipped on the other shoe.
"That wedge heel will be extremely comfortable," the little, old man assured her, "and you couldn't ask for more style. Look at that rosette on the toe. Oh, it's a popular shoe, selling very fast, very fast. Why don't you take a look in the mirror?"
She giggled in excitement, and stood up a bit tremulously, steadied herself, smoothed her short, tight, black skirt over her broad hips and with careful, steps swayed towards the mirror.
You mean you're not going to take them, but I . . . that is. . .
"Oh, Ah'm going to buy them, but Ah think Ah'll jus' weah them right out. HeaH!" she handed him the check. He looked at it a bit
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dubiously then started for the cash register.
Any person wanting a display for use in his home town should apply at the Alumni Association office, in person or by mail, said Ellsworth. Usually, one week is the time allotted for a display to remain in one place, he added. Express charges are paid by the Activities Commission, since the purpose of the displays is to advertise the University. The boards are now at Grinnell and Garden City.
With a broad smile she danced out of the store and up the street, her new shoes gleaming brightly.
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“Please, wait a minute,” called a voice, hoarse from over exertion. She turned around. It was the little old man, his few strands of gray hair blown criss-cross over his bald spot. He paused to pant momentarily and sop at the sides of his nose and about his temples with a very clean white handkerchief, “Miss Du Bois, you forgot to endorse this‘check,’ and you have some change coming.”
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She grinned at him happily, "Checks is sho' a lot of bother," she remarked, then looked at her shoes, "but Ah reckon they is wuth it."
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Miss Agnes Deane Butler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Aaron C. Butter of Weir, and Francis Lavely Edwards, son of Ms. Alta Edwards of Wichita, were married Sunday afternoon, May 23, in a double ring
ceremony performed at the home of the bride's parents at Weir.
Miss Velma Ruch of Tulsa, college classmate of the bride, acted as bridesmaid, and Glenn Floyd, a fraternity brother of the groom in the local chapter of Phi Chi, professional medical fraternity, was best man.
The bride received a degree as a sociology major from the University last June, and following four months employment as a case-worker at Iola, was appointed on the medical staff at the University hospitals in Kansas City.
The groom is a senior in the School of Medicine at Kansas City and following his graduation in January, will become an interne at Wesley hospital in Wichita.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwards are at home at 2508 West 53rd, Kansas City, Kansas.
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