Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-04-23
BEAUTY'S BUT SKIN DEEP
lovely! Isn't she?9

ty-she is absolutely beautiful Her
face well-soulfulw
"Ah! You think so. Well, it is
all very well having soulful face; the
question is, is there any real soul be-
hind all that pink and white pretti-
ness?"
'Pink and white prettiness! Real
ly, Goring, you know, you carry your
cynicism bit too far"
"Why, my dear boy, she is pink and
white, isn't she?"
Certainly, she puts to shame the
lovelicst wild rose that--that ever
grew on hedge"
"Well, then, why mind my allud-
ing to her pink and white prettiness?"
"It was the way you said it, You
don't seem to understand that l don't
care for mere prettiness in a woman's
face-it is soul that | look for"
81 see, you like the face; personal
y, | am content with it in its right
full abode-namely, the body"
''You talk like "a Look here
drop humbugging; if a person has
great deal of soul-by which l mean
feeling, intelligence and all that--it
always looks out of the eyes, doesn't
it,"
eyes, agree with you there; but
the point is that sometimes very like
it often looks out of the eyes, some
times, grant you, very fetching, but
when you try and get behind it, you
find it's nothing but little bit of af
fectation. Why, after all, being soul
full or the reverse is only matter of
fashion"
ooh, can't talk to you! Your
ideas of women are all abominable
rot, if you'll excuse me saying So"
Don't mention it. All the same,
| know more of women than you do;
I'm only putting you on your guard.
Tell me some more of your golden
haired goddess"
Cant you be serious? I'm in ear
nest this time; want to talk serious
ly about her; / want to know what
you think of her"
"Well, think she's pretty; I think
hereyes are blue and guileless; l think
her hair the brightest and her figure
the neatest | have ever seen, and l
think have met her before some
where Yet she didn't seem to re-
member me, did she? 1t must have
been, let me see, two years ago. Tell
me, has she ever loved before? For
surely with such a beauty and soul,
yours is not the first heart she has
taken captive"
'Look here, drop poetry. That's
Just what | want to tell you about,
only upon my word you make it so
Jolly hard for a chap to tell you any
thing. What's come over you2 One
would you'd been crossed in love, or
something, only l can't think any
woman would be such an idiot /
suppose you're about the most popular
man about town; why don't you drop
cynicism and get married?'
Never mind me, you were going
to tell me that"
"She's been engaged before"
"Well, that's not serious; most of
'cm have. Who broke it OFF,"
"She, Of course! You don't imagine
any fellow who had once won her
dear little heart would part with it in
hurry, do you? From all l can
make out the man was a lazy scoun-
drel, and she, to show you the good
sort she is, didn't care to marry a man
who lounged about all his days, and
never exerted himself to work fol
her"
"Had he no money"
"Only a paltry $4,000 a year
: What's that to a girl like her? O.
course, naturally, she wants with he
good looks to hold some sort Of posi-
r ton in town. She, like the gooC
) angel she is, tried to spur him on tt
work, but he as good as told her tina
if $4,000 a year wasn't enough TO
4 her, well--it ought to be, or some
/ thing like that. Then he wen
r abroad"
(Tom Goring to himself)-"Y e'
went away, and returned unexpected
J. ly, but in time" (Aloud) Dyes
Anything else?"
, eyes, not only that, but he was
confoundedly jealous brute"
absolutely without cause?"
"Of course, just as though a gi
with her lofty ideas would stoop [
Irritation when she was engaged to |
married"
"Iook here, Malcolm, you take hi
y part Naturally, you're a bit down 0