Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-05

enough to note the young mans at
tention to the younger of the Ameri-
can women, wheedled up to the
carriage and thrust bunch of flowers
in Jefferson's face.
"Achetez des heurs, monsieur, pour
la jolie dame?"
Down went Jefferson's hand in his
pocket and, filling the child's hand
with small silver, he flung the flowers
in the carriage Then he turned In
quiringly to Shirley for instructions
so he could direct the cocher. Mrs.
Blake said she would get out here. Her
dressmaker was close by, in the Rue
Auber, and she would walk back rn
o'clock Jefferson assisted her to|
alight and escorted her as far as the
porte-cochere Of the ,modiste's, a
couple Of doors away. When he re-
turned to the carriage, Shirley had al
ready told the coachman where to
go. He got in and the f1acre started.
NOW" said Shirley, tell me what
you have been doing with yourself
all day"
Jefferson was busily arranging the
faded carriage rug about Shirley,
spending more time in the task per-
haps than was absolutely necessary.
and she had to repeat the question.
"Doing?" he echoed with smile,
1--WE been doing two things-waiting
impatiently for seven o'clock and in
cidentally reading the notices of your
book"
CHAPER Nv
i say?"
Settling herself comfortably back
In the carriage, Shirley questioned
Jefferson with eagerness, even
anxiety. She had been irnpatiently
aiting the arrival Of the newspapers
from home" for so much depended
on this first effort She knew her
book had been praised in some
quarters, and her publishers had
written her that the sales we're
bigger every day, but she was curious
to learn how it had been received by
the reviewers.
In truth, it had been no slight
achievement for "a young writer Of
| her fnexperlence, mere tyro IN
literature, to attract so much atten-
ton with her first book. The success
almost threatened to tu-n her head,
| she had told her aunt laughingly, al
| though sho was sure it could never
do that. She fully realized that it
was the subject rather than skill Of
| the narrator that counted in the
books success, also the fact that 1t
had come out at timely moment,
when the whole world was talking of
the Money Peril. Had not President
Roosevelt, in a recent sensational
speech, declared that 1t might be
necessary for the state to curb the
colossal fortunes of America. and was
not her hero, John Burkett Ryder, the
richest Of them all? Any way they
looked at it, the success of the book
was most CERTIFYING.
While she was an attractive, aristo-
cratic-looking girl, Shirley Roosmore
had no serious claims to academic
beauty Her features we're irregular,
and the firm and rather thin mouth
lines disturbed the harmony In
dispensable to plastic beauty. Yet
there was in her face something far
more appealing-soul and character.
The face of the merely beautiful wom-
an expresses nothing, promises moth
ing. It presents absolutely no key TO
the soul within, and often there is
no soul within to have a key to. Per
feet in It's outlines and coloring, it
is a delight to gaze upon, just as is a
flawless piece of sculpture, yet the
delight is only fleeting. One soon
grows satiated, no matter how beau.
tiful the face may be, because it is
always the same, expressionless and
soulless. Beauty is only skin Deep
said the philosopher, and no truer die
tum was ever uttered. The merely
beautiful woman, who possesses only
beauty and nothing else, is kept so
busy thinking of her looks, and is so
anxious to observe the impression her
beauty makes on others, that she has
neither the time nor the inclination
for matters of greater Importance
Sensible men, as rule, do not lose
their hearts to women whose only
assets are their good looks. They
enjoy a filtration with them, but
seldom care to make them thei1
wives. The marrying man is shrewd
enough to realize that domestic
} virtues will be more useful in his
household economy than all the
academic beauty ever chiseled out oil
; block marble
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