The True Story of Cinderella.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 192, 19 February 1887, Page 8

The True Story of Cinderella.

Ax account of the incidont on which the nmscxy talo of Cinderella is foundrd may not punc xmintere&tinp; at th'V timu. Tin -toiy of Cinderella has boon \\ninu-»'\ ti.U'nl to Fiance, lt?l>', Arabu 1 , ami K<j\pf, bat" t lie Eirynfian version, n-< [_'ucn bj Sti ibo and J'l'ian, has prolnbh the be^t uu'ht to be called tho or'gmal. t;.Mne time (sn'.i( 5 n'.in f j: the year 670 i:.c, ih np{ c ii 1 * that \h~ l^rince^s Rhodope was bathii it, and had Lit h 'V .-hoos with her other jiauu. Nt- \on i 1i 1 ou\ vi' bank. An cat^lo happ' r.nl to bo hm r:in§; abnut at the timo, and, attrir^od b\ tho of tho J'rincp^-'- 1 J , •siorpivl do»vn, seized ono of them, r.ni', caviNiiKj: it en to Memphis, dropped it into t !i e :ap of Kin£ Psammotichac>, a\u^ V">i iinjj a dourt of justice. Thekin^, f-truc'r b'- the '•nail &i:'e and general beauty of the shoo, issued a proclamation roquo-tirsr the owner, whoever she was *° a PPb r * or •*" I\o application boin<^ made, mo^onirois v Lie despatched, who in due c^llrse caiie i e.o:?* lihodopc. She was then presented to tho kincr, who ultimately maided hei. T'nj Fiench version, t;iven by Perrault, layt'le ?cone in humble life, The Italian ver ?ion, which is still acted at tho Florentine carnival?, follows the Egyptian with tho substitution of Italian personages.