Creator
Zoe Anderson Norris.
Title
“A Case of Chilled Cupid,” The Argosy,
Date
January 1908.
Subject
Cover art by Jan C. Vondrous.
Description
Wealthy men in Zoe’s fiction have disastrous infatuations with working-class young blondes. In this story for Argosy (part of publisher Frank Munsey’s pulp empire), a rich New Yorker drives his new car to his beloved’s Riverside Drive mansion, where an adorable teenage shopgirl joins them for dinner. His crush on the teenager fizzles when he visits the shop and overhears her mocking him as a flirtatious “swell,” attractive only for his car, “a rattling big machine.”
Source
From the Collection of Eve M. Kahn.