The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1913-02-10
BEAUTY BAN|SHfS
BONN BETHAN|TE
TOO PRETTY TO TEACH
LIKE HELEN OF OLD, IN MIDST
OF BATTLE WITH DEFEAT
AT HER HEELS.

a.
says she was dropped from the facul-
ty because she was too pretty and the
trustees agreed her beauty was likely
to prove hindrance in her work.
Five young men, students at Beth
any were expelled at the same time:
probably because they protested
against beauty being banished from
their college course.
The staid old community of Beth
any is all stirred up over the question
of whether the flow of knowledge into
youthful craniums can be impedded
by good looks and charming person
atty. There are those who saw it
can't, and there are those who say it
can. The "cans" happen to be in pow
er, so beauty must take her trunk and
seek elsewhere to shine.
The five youths expelled from the
college, probably for no other reason
than that they took up the cause of
the attractive young physical instruc-
tor, will have to thumb their text
books in other places of learning or
go without
The trustees would give me no
reason at first for the dismissal ex
cept that | was too beautiful to re-
main in the same zone with susceptible
young Students Indignantly declares
the Helen of today. Like that other
Helen, whose beauty brought about
the Trojan war, she finds herself in
the midst of a battle, with defeat
stalking at her heels and brave band
of loyal 'co-eds" augmented by the
entire student body masculine decry-
ing the "old fogy" methods of the
powers that be.
There are always plenty of war
rlors to come to the rescue of the
worlds Helens.. Perhaps, after all,
the statement made by Bethany Col
lege trustees regarding the part
beauty plays in business of profess
slonalism is not altogether wrong.
While they may not have used the
best of diplomacy in acquainting the
young teacher with her lack of quail
fications for the position, there is
more than a suspicion that the ex-
ceedingly good looking girl does not
find her way to success paved with
rose petals.
Here was the case of a fascinating
girl strolling to the postoffice with one
of the young men of the college, and
after O'Clock in the evening, too. The
rules and regulations of the institu-
ton positively-forbid any such frivoli-
ties. That the girl was member of
the faculty held no especial weight.
If she had carried out the cartoonist's
idea of what schoolmarm ought to
be the chances are that the O'Clock
stroll would have been entirely over
looked. A sharp nose with wide rim
med spectacles, tightly drawn hair, a
sallow complexion and voice cast in
high c sharp will never play havoc
with the football squad. But pretty
girl is-well, she is pretty girl
whether she takes orders or gives
them
See the prettiest girl behind the
counter draw the men customers to
her, just as if she carried a couple of
magnets concealed about her person.
Watch the queen of the glove counter
at work. Observe her as she holds his
hand with the ghost of pressure, and
watch him buy dozen pairs in place
of one. These are some of the pre-
negatives of beauty.
But how about the jealous floor
walker, who entertains a growing re-
gard for the blond queen and views
her coquetry as so many personal af-
fronts to his own frock-coated pulch-
ritude.
Her shining hour of sun is spoiled
by the clouds of an anger that has its
root in selfishness and its foundation
on the rock Of authority. The pretty
girl has more trouble lodging the
slings and arrows of outraged love
than the plain girl has getting up a
speaking acquaintance with Cupid.
When the son Of the big boss"
drifts into dads" office and discovers
a full-blown peach" masquerading as
"a stenographer. he considers it a part
Of the privilege Of allied authority to
turn her pretty head with invitations.
He places a standing order with the
florist around the corner, and his
friends begin to miss him from his
one time haunts.
When father discovers his folly he
hands beautiful Bessie" the blue en-
Vslope and sends sonny" Oft to Eu-