The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-05
KANSAS COANENT
THE PURSUIT OF BEAUTY.


inere was a girl in Illinois who
was SO surprisingly beautiful that
most of the unmarried young men.
OF her vicinity were in love with her.
OF imagined they were, which doesn't
amount to the same thing. She had
the free use of all the automobiles in
the countryside. and there was a
,ierce rivalry as to who should take
ner TO the opera house every time
tAeIe was a show, and her father used
70 oeo down. the family horse with
sent to her,
inaiiy she grew weary of promis-
ing 10 pc sister to young men, and
surfendered to a brilliant and hand
some doctor. whose future seemed as
sured. They, were married about a
year and half ago, and the cere-
niony was SO impressive that the Off
clatlng clergyman had two or three
assistants. and the solemn function was
performed at high noon. Now the
young doctor wants a divorce, and he
doesn't care whether it is granted at
nigh noon or low midnight. so that
he gets it,
In his petition for divorce he was
perfectly frank. stating that the beau
t1ful bride had a diabolicaI temper
| and would go into such tantrurns over
nothing that he sometimes feared for
her reason. In her estimation there
was but one thing worth living for,
ana that was the adu1ation of others;
she had no realization of her respon-
sibiiities as a wife. and was always
flirting with the boys, and her con-
duct worried him so that his health
was affected and his business injured.
Most every town can furnish SIM
| liar story from it's matrimonial rec
ords. Young men are usually in a
loony condition when they are in love.
The beauty of the girl involved is
the one thing that occupies their
minds. A great many wise things
have been said about beauty by the
philosophers and sages, tending to
| show that it is only skin deep, and a
| deluS1on and .snare, but beauty is
nevertheless at premium, and al
ways Will be. The pretty damse1 will
| always have a distinct advantage over
| the girl who Is afraid to look into a
mirror, lest it explode. That sort of
philosophy which contends that beau
| ty and sterling worth are seldom or
1 never united is the worst kind of rub
! b1sh 1t is foolish to urge wife-hunt-
! ing young men to beware of beauty;
| they should rather be urged to see
| that good looks are not the girls only
| recommendation.
The moon-blindness of the male
lover prevents him from distinguish
ing any Of the girls attributes, other
than her beauty; if her hair is done
up in swell style it makes no differ
| ence whether she is amiabIe; if her
| complexion is entirely admirable, It is
useless to inquire whether she is
truthful and loyal; If her eyes are
lfmpid pools Of light, it makes no diff
ference If she is lazy, insolent or rat
| tlebrained.
When you come to think it over. 1t
is surprising that one marriage in a
hundred results happily. If young
men are Intent upon capturing beat
ty, the girls are5e equally determined
! to conquer Apollo at the first oppor-
tunity. A hoftely man. & with a
crooked nose and a wart inconven-
! iently located, may be so loaded down
with noble qualities of p mind and
heart that he creaks when he walks
and the women will shoe him off the
4 premises. every time he approaches
him all the elements that constitute
an ideal husband, but he can't make
anybody believes sit, and the chances
are that If, he Insists upon having a
/ wife he VIII have to patronize mat
i rimonial agency. and marry a woman
/ with glass eye and chin whfskers
4 And while he is skirmishing around
in the matrimonial market, looking
4 over the remnants and shop-worr
goods, the aleclzy young man whose
face Is his only redeeming feature
casts a careless eye over the array
of blooming virgins, and when he
I beckons to one of them she drops hel
curling irons and follows him.
4 And so it is really surprising tina,
there are so many happy homes In
} this land of moon blindness.-Em-
poria Gazette.