The story
The annual Tournament of Roses in Pasadena, California, is participated in by many summer visitors, who eagerly vie with one another for supremacy. A young college man decided one year to compete, prepared his entry with care and arranged with his fiancée to be the driver. This young woman was of a jealous disposition, however, continually quarreled with the young man, and just before the hour set for the fete, declined to take charge of his chariot and left him apparently helpless. While he was wondering what he should do, he saw a beautiful flower girl pass. She was a farmer’s daughter and with her mother was bound to the city, hoping to sell posies to the merry-makers. The young man noted how attractive she was, and on a sudden impulse urged her to drive his car. She demurred at first, but finally consented, much to his delight. The ‘other girl’ was angrier than ever, and broke her engagement. She expected that her fiancé would beg her pardon, but he took his dismissal in a matter-of-fact way and seemed quite cheerful about it. Then, like a latter day prince, he started out to find his ‘Cinderella,’ whose modesty and beauty had won his heart. They met at last, and the girl was glad to see him, for she had dreamed of ‘a fairy prince’ and the owner of the chariot of roses was the man whose face appeared in her dreams.
Summary from The Moving Picture World · 10 May 1913
