Holbrook argus., 1909-02-16
A Tub LeS;
By Forest Blake


 a thing before.
 1t wasn't a b.t like nove.s-thoug l never had much of chance to reaG them, for I've had to work out eve since l was 15. But in novels, you know, the girl is always beautiful, an always dressed in shmmerin2 sat T and lace; and the man generallf meets her behind bank of palms ball, and they wind the thing up r. d garden of roses just as the sun goes down. And, as he clasps her slende dropping form in his arms, and sh lays her golden head on his ma lly bosom, l always wonder how much of that clasping business thefell b when he sees her with her goldel hair done up in curl papers and last weeks calico dress on?
 And, you know, that makes lots of difference. Now, I'm not bit pretty, but when I'm dressed up youd be sll' prised. My hairs dark, and it's ma turally straight and oily and wants t0 lay right flat to my head. But when I've washed it good and curled it just the least bit and s~arled it into a pom padour back and front there's not one person in a dozen but would say the whole thing is nature. Then my com l leXion is kind of dark, but I've found out how to use Princess cream and rice powder so it won't show. And | know just what kind Of styles and col OTIS to wear So. when I'm dre .sed up in my brown, tight-fitting, ta Tor suit with furs and hat all to match-thc whole thing simple and elegant and not bit like hired girl-and I'm with a crowd of girls and we meet a maxwell, he never looks at the others.
 But, when l get home and change calico with patch on the front, when the powder wears off and my hair be- gins to wilt and get stringy, then guess a man wouldn't turn his head unless it was to keep from looking at me.
 Then why don't just keep fixed mp all the time? Because I don't have time. When(a girl gets up at four gets breakfast, milks five cows. puts odt a big washing, gets dinner, churns. does the ironing, gets supper and then mows the yard while she's resting, there's not much time for pomping your hair. And when saw l couldn work and keep pretty, both. l chose to work. And l never w""ried anything about it-not till 1 met Isaac
 He's school teacher, and an awful fine scholar, too He graduated from common branches, and he's spent two whole terms in the county normal He's been teaching district school for seven years nOw-every year in a diff ferent place.
 He talks whole lot about his pro fession,' and about the child" and the "child's mental growth and 'iu- tellectual processes. and a lot of other things l cant understand He's told me, too,. that it takes great deal of tOUioSS IOl e man tO lCtOSuILC lllS dl- finity-whateve that means-among the lower classes, when his calling in life is to be brain worker and great leader among men.
 And, besides being school teacher, he's the most finicky fellow l ever went with. They say it takes him if teen minutes to comb his hair, and he cant put on his hat without a looking glass. When get into a big stew of work l forget all about how l look but Isaac never gets so deep in as that. Last summer, when help was so scarce here in the country, and the men just working their heads off to get harvesting done and Isaac was sitting around at home studying intel lectual processes, John Winters here that's the woman's man l work for