The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-08-19
THE
BEAUTIFUL.
II Is Dwarfed or Enhanced
by Comparison
BY ARTHUR TOWNSEND
BY ARTHUR TOWNSEND

of art i'm his house He concluded to
replace it and thought that while he
was on the job he might better buy
something OF real merit So he con
suited connoiSseur, who selected a
painting that cost hundred dollars.
When the picture was hung the others
looked so cheap that he spent thou
sand dollars more in replacing them
with others mp to the standard of the
first. Soon after that he went abroad.
where he saw n great many beautiful
works of art. and brought two or
three that ne especially fancied home
with him. When he got them hung
the others looked so poor that, de
spairing Of keying up the standard TO
his foreign specimens, he made bon
fire of the whole lot
This story is the keynote 10 another
which / am about To tell. When |
went out to Colorado n good many
years ago | found in the mining dis
trictS on Clear creek, up in the noun
tains west of Denver. few women in
comparison with the number Of men. !
had not been there long before l no
ticed that when met woman she
looked refined and some OF the women
comely
One day | approached man wash
ing" for gold on the margin of the
creek and fell into conversation with
him While doing so a couple of young
women came and looked nj him rock
ing his pan and taking out the little
particles of gold left in the sediment
Pretty girls. those" | remarked as
the women went away.
Purity enough outside"
what do you mean 10y thatT'
stranger" he said pauSing in his
work. don't you never trust your
Judgment on women folks except when
there is lot O them together-any-
way, as many as there are men. It's
like what You buy in store. If it's
only a brass candlestck. II isn't much
to look at among the other candle
sticks even If it's one O. the purtiest.
but list you get it home by itself and
it'll shine for all it's worth
Are you "A married MANI" | asked.
Married Not on your life | had
an awful narrow escape onct though"
Tell me about ii.
"My experience cost me some dust,
I can tell you, but II was wo'th il, and
I've never regretted buyin"it. When !
first come out here there wasn't To-
man nearer than Denver. We miners
didn't have nobody to look at except
each other, and we was the most
freckled faced, slab sided. dod rotted
set YOU ever see We didn't none of
us wash oftener than onct week, and
some of us didn't wash at all. Them
as didn't wear boards was the wo'st
lookin' Of all. Their faces was al
ways covered with stubble."
"Do you know" ! interrupted, why
you became so slovenlyf'
"Why, Stranger
Because you were not subject TO
the refining influence of women
"The refnin' influence o. women,
That's what I'm Goin' to tell you
about We got refined all Of n sud
den There was a gal come up here
from som'ers-K Kansas city or ST. Joe
or Omaha. | reckon-with her father,
who was n minister or an evangelist
or somcpin o that kind. and said he'd
come "a look after our souls, Before
he come we was lookin' for gold, and
after he come we was lookin for his
daughter Her hair was like the sun
shinin on red sandstone. She said II
was auburn. Her complexion was
what she called olive. and her eyes
was-well, don't remember the color
of her eyes. but they was beautiful
"The parson Woodbridge was his
name: his daughters name was Lillian
he went into cabin where the two
lived together. the father distrihutin'
tracts, the daughter doin' his cookin'
for him. When night come on the cab
in was crowded with MS men calm on
Lillian. list like musketers In n room
with Il light I'm H. So her father
said we'd better come one az n time
and Lillian laughed and give us all
an evenln'. There bcln' six o. us. we
jist took up the week, all except Sun
day. when her father wouldn't allow
no visitors. on that evenin from :
TO s he used To give MS Bible lesson.
"My evenin' was Tuesday. The first
Tuesday | went TO see Lillian I got
spoony and was goin' TO put my arm
around her when she stopped me.
you'll tell she said.
81 swear 10y all that's holy | won't
There's five other men comm
here she said. and | like you best Of
all. but II grant you favors it'll make
'em all mad
"'Jist You trust me To keep num-
81 succeeded In convincin' her that
was reliable. and she soon got
enough confidence in me to let me kiss
her once every Tuesday evenin' when
7 was goin to my cabin I kept mum.
and In n few weeks | got ahead Of the
whole lot OF fellers. and Lillian admit
ted that she loved me. But when
asked her 10 marry me she told me her
father wanted her 60 marry some one