Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-06-18
BEAUTY AND ITS OPPOSITE.

BEAUTY AND ITS OPPOSITE.
rhs Story of Pretty Girl. Homei
Girl and q Man.
AS the writer was talking to re
tired colonel in front of an uptown hote
q few days ago, very handsome woman
passed them, and the writer's eyes wen
after her almost as fast as the colonel
did.
"By zucks!" exclaimed the writer
''isn't she pretty?"
Rather" admitted the colonel, "bu
beauty is something you can't most al
ways sometimes bank on, especially thu
beauty of woman's face or figure"
swell, it's always good to look at, any
how"
"Of course, and sometimes it's lasting
and actual, but oftener the very prett,
woman is not the most attractive"
''Still, there's a charm in beauty in
sisted the writer, straining his eyes
around the corner to get farewell view
of the fieeting vision.
"Now, here's where come in with
story" laughed the colonel, who always
makes his points with story. "When
was q man of IS 1 was on one oc
casion going down the Ohio river from
Cincinnati to Louisville. AS I passed
into the cabin of the steamboat that was
10 carry me 1 saw two young women OF
e2 and 20, say, standing on the guards
evidently waiting for some one. l no
ticed them because one was so pretty
that man would have been reasonable
to all his manliness not to have seen her
She was gray-eyed, with a beautiful
complexion, soft, silken hair and a fig
ure which was grace itself. AS
the young man of to-day would say, she
was o 'corker.' Her companion was as
homely as the other was pretty; sc
homely that felt sorry that she had to
carry such face around with her. Who
or what they were l had no means OF
knowing, but was glad that was go.
ing on the boat with them, for the sake
tf the pretty girl.
81 went back to my stateroorn, and
in few minutes thereafter I heard
wcmenis voices in the cabin near my
door. / noticed then that l had left
II open, and as I closed it l saw the two
young women had the stateroom adj
Joining mine and were just entering
1t. They didn't see me, and closed the
floor, feeling elated over the idea tina,
as soon as possible would make the
acquaintance of my pretty neighbour
Then, as I began to slick up for thu
conquest, I heard voices in the next
room. One was sharp and angry, the
other soft and pleading. I could only
catch an occasional word, but learned
they were sisters, and one of them was
reading the riot act to the other, and
the other was taking it very meekly in.
deed.
"After awhile one Of them stepped
out on the guards, and, though didn't
care to peep out, could hear her abus
ing everything in sight. She was out.
side only a minute or two, returning
10 begin her TRADE inside. Inwardly
{ thanked my stars that I had been
thus placed, because by the merest
chance I had been let into the secrets
Of the dispositions of these two sisters
and wondered why it was that beauty
couldn't carry other charms as well
At the same time, made up my mind
that the conquest was on the point
OF making, or hoping to make, would
be indefinitely postponed. AS the boat
pulled out l went forward to look al
the city we were leaving, and when
I came into the cabin again the supper
table stretched away down the length
Of it, and caught the appetizing odo1
OF ham and coffee and that sort OF
thing.
81 knew the captain, and he invited
me to a seat at his table, and when ]
bat down, behold, my two young wom
en- sat opposite. The captain, of course
knew them, and at once presented me
They were rather quiet at first, and
most of the talk was carried on by the
captain and myself. 1 was watching
the homely girl now, because I was
afraid would have to run up agains
the temper of the pretty one, and
didn't want to be any further disillu
sionized. 1t was enough to simply lool
at her, for, by Jove, temper or no tenn
per, she was a beauty. But 1 wa
hungry, and as Twas getting my supper
in eating shape stopped talking, ant
oil at once the tones of the voice hat
heard in my stateroom filled the va
cancy my voice had left. was almos
afraid to look at up, but I did, becaus,
1t wasn't the pretty girls voice at all
never felt SO relieved in my life, AMI
that night a. we sat on deck in TIL
moonlight | told her all about it and
lot more"
J "And was she mp to her beauty in al
respects?" inquired the writer.
'The finest woman ever met" sal,
the colonel, heartily.
"Why did you let her escape?"
"Who said l did?" laughed tn
colonel, showing the writer a beartifu
medallion of his wife, which he carrie
with him always.-Washingto Star.
Resourceful Children.
Very early in life the child shows b
sunDy ipdicatinpc ,yb her ba tod 4