The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-08-19
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BEAUTY
By THOMAS DENTON

"Of course lot. You're too much o
q gentleman to say 1t, but you know
as well as | that nose of hers woul'
spoil Venus. have some conf
dences to give you. old man. I'm so
ing to unburden myself to you as
would to no other man living.
"You know what an admirer of tn,
beautiful | have always been, espe
cially In woman. Ny idea for wifi
was a beauty. My first love was Id
Reynolds. You remember lda-beau
tiful girl; fair skin. Titan hair, sof
brown eyes. But her crowniDg beaut.
was her pearly teeth. Just the kint
OF beauty ! always observation-disclosures
ic, you know. Well. l made up to Id;
aud got on very well with her. TIT
fact is my father. being rich, / coult
get most any of the girls. ! didn'
care 80 much whether they loved mi
disinterestedIy. What ! wanted wal
beauty. AS | was saying, ! made ~
to Ida. We were both young. nine
teen. Ida seventeen.
zone day lot of US boys aud girls
were playing bindmans bun. Ids
was 1T and had her eyes bandaged
One OF the fellows laughed right ir
front of her. then darted backward
He fortunately missed a door stand
ing wide open. but Ida struck it. She
received terrible blow. aud lot OF
her front teeth were knocked clean
out. She had to have false set put
In. and that spoiled her beauty for
me. My girls teeth must be her own
pure white pearls. sided out OF
that affair at once.
Then Winifred Tearle caught my
fancy. She was dark complexioned and
dark haired. but there was a peach In
her cheek, and when she wore that
braided cable hanging down her back
nearly to her heels 1t was enough to
make mans mouth water. ] admired
her for her hair especially. ! was get
ting ready to pop the question when she
fell III, like Simon Peters wife's sister,
Of fever, and all her hair came out
II suppose I should have waited for
II to grow In again, but every one said
1t would neither be so long nor so thick.
And you know what a boy not yet
twenty is. You can't rely on one Of
'em for thirty days. 1t seemed TO me
that without that splendid mass of hair
winifred wouldn't be Winifred at all;
she'd be somebody else. The case was
not one requiring constancy. so i
switched of.
"Genevieve Tuttle was my next love.
She was a beautiful blond, but fem
mime beauty doesn't alone consist in
curves of the body. a pair of blue eyes.
massive hair or pearly teeth. A voice
may be part Of 1t as well as any ma
terial feature. Genevieve had the rich
est voice ever heard come out Of
woman's throat. didn't have an easy
time with her. for the girls bad got
on to my ideas of beauty and how I'd
gone back on several OF 'em because
they'd lost their best feature and all
that, but my prospects won. and Gene
We've was just ready to accept a pro-
posal when she got a lump in her
throat The doctors had to cut It out,
and when the wound healed she talked
Hike a parrot
II succeeded In shaking her. but you'd
better believe l was given to under
stand by my friends that that was the
last shake | could give any girl. II /
did It again would be cut man. I'm
very sensitive and couldn't stand that
on any account Knowing that had
but one more chance. made up my
mind that when got another girl I'd
put her In cage where nothing could
happen to her till after the wedding.
If she lost her beauty then ! couldn't
help it
But the consumed luck that was
waiting for me changed the general
plan. Instead OF my setting up to
girl. and she losing her teeth or her
hair or her voice. did the damage
myself. and before had any acquaint-
ance with the girl. was standing In
one OF these sardine boxes they call
trolley cars, holding on to strap with
an umbrella under my arm. carried
It horizontally instead Of perpendicu.
lar. The car stopped. then started
with series Of jerks. The jerks were
by shrieks | turned to
lind that | and the jerks together had
been driving the point of my umbrei.
Ia stick right against girls nose.
How it did bleed! l got her out Of
/ car and into drug store. where aft
sr time the bleeding was stopped;
hen | drove her home
"Of course | called the next day to
ssk about her. but didn't see her.
was told that the damage was very
serious. called regularly, for | was
III broken up over the matter and was
'ast down into the depths of despair
It being told that | had broken the
,oor girls nose and from having been
! very pretty girl she would now for
'ver be very homeIy one.
~ threw up the sponge. 1t was APP
,arent to me that fate had determined
hat should marry a homely woman.
nd determined to atone for my past
elfishness by devoting my life to the
fri whose nose had broken"
Enright paused; the story was fin.
shed.
do you miss the beauty?"
mo. l haven't got far in matrimony
ct, but I've got far enough to know !