The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-22
How Pretty. Woman Made Herself VJuIy.

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 This is true story of lady who changed herself from a really pretty women to one so i'll favored that it Is unpleasant to look at her. It only took some fifteen years to work the trans formation. She was, to begin, of graceful figure. Her eyes were dark and brilliant, her skin, though that of the brunette, was smooth and comely. She was perfectly up in all society smallnesses--the conventional elbow crookings, the artificial society smile, which rubs off more easily than any other sort of smile known. The only special points notable in the lady's face were that she showed her teeth more than most people do when she smiled the society smile and that her nose was rather long and sharp. And talk! Good heavensl She talked you down and drowned you out and then talked your head off aftcrward.
 For the rest, it was to be noted that her ocean of society small talk was not always harmless. She tried to run everybody's affairs, and she knew what other persons ought to do better than they did themselves. although her own life was anything but successful one. If introduced to stranger, par ticuiarly one who was wealthy or held an. enviabie social position, she would gush like school girl over the in- dividual, protesting undying love on short acquaintance.
 On short acquaintance, too, she be- ,came extremely intimate with people, nosing with her long proboscis into their most sacred private affairs, which she afterward retailed mercilessly to all the world, twisting the facts so as to make a good story. sometimes putting evil and malicious construc- tions on words and acts the most inno- cent. She came to be known as stirrer up of mischief. When called to account now and then for her evil utterances she did not hesitate a mo- ment at any sort of society lie," to smooth matters over or to make herself things which she knew to be absolute ly untrue just because they sounded well.
 The process of transformation into the malicious falsifler was q gradual one. At first she made exaggerated statements about things, just careless ly or to make a story sound big. She applied this method especially to other peoples personal affairs. In course of time she had so lost the sense of ex- actness that 1t is doubtful whether she was any CdpdDle OI seeing the truth precisely. Then, too, the malice in the woman. somewhat latent in her youth, developed more and more till she became one to be summed. It was known that she talked evilly about her dearest friends behind their backs. Now note how fifteen years of this kind of functioning on the social plane affected the woman's physical appear ance. The face has become shriveled into a million little creases of the kind the girls called pin wrinkles" The brunette skin is parchmentary, atrabil- ious, almost mahogany colored. The nose has become beaklike, and there is sour, dissatisfied sniff to it, as though some of the unhappiness the woman has been so long causing other people had at length turned back on herself. No doubt 1t has. She was used to keep her acquaintances in hot water; now she herself is in hot water in her own soul.
 Physically, however, the transforma- tton is perhaps most apparent in her teeth. They are now discolored, yell low, and they are longer and sharper than they were of old. They somehow remind you of the teeth of a crocodile, built for biting and tearing.
 When the woman goes now to social gatherings no crowd of sister women runs toward her to greet her with hearty handshape and affectionate words. Acquaintances are civil, as all well bred women are. but nothing more. There is no light of love or joy in their eye. She glides among them, with her soured, haggard, ugly face and now skinny figure. the skeleton at the feast.
 She has done all this herself by in- dulging propensity for unkind, sus- picious thought and gossip.