In the Cluny Museum
Haight, Dorothy
In the Cluny Museum -TTl PAIR of Catherine de Medici's slippers—invented cleverly to slide on padded boards, like runners of a skate. No wonder that the "wily schemer glided" down the Louvre's...
...Until—a battered pair of little boots...
...Centered right jauntily amid the territory of the great...
...The delicately tinted beauties, stilted thus, should not have been afraid to step from out their gondolas to the canalwashed stairways of the palaces...
...The sandals of Venetian ladies...
...The turned up toes wrinkled as roguishly as creases in a grin...
...Owner obscure...
...Also strange...
...The mules of Mazarin, the beaded shoes of Marie Antoinette, and so on, for a score...
...No wonder that the "wily schemer glided" down the Louvre's smooth corridors, arriving disconcertingly unheralded upon the councils of her enemies...
...Fortunate little feet...
...Arriving at the last, sore and triumphant, where they would be...
...Bien surl—they managed for themselves—over the cobbles...
...Dorothy Haight...
...With mushroom bases poised like heels beneath the front and rear of each...
...And on rough days, where there were waves, the boatmen carried them up to the marble portico...
Vol. 3 • November 1925 • No. 2
