The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1914-01-22
Beauty and
The Beast
By DWIGHT NORWOOD


priced by women. Whether or no this
is true, the fact remains that a great
many very pretty women have married
painfully ugly men. 1t does seem to
be the case that women are captured
by men In an entirely different way
from what men are captured by WON
en- Perhaps II the subject were fol
lowed out scientifically 1t would be
found In the fact that the man is
SHARED by weakness, while the woman
is shared by strength.
Rosalind Thurber was very pref
ty country girl at the age eighteen
when most girls are at their prettiest
and was a great favorite with the
young farmer boys, who were her nat
ural associates. She was about to
please her father and mother by ac-
cepting Gus Walker. the son Of one
Of the most prominent farmers in the
neighborhood and commonly consid.
cred rich. Young Walker was as hand
some as Rosa was pretty. Indeed, he
was considered the best looking young
fellow in all that region.
Farmer Gordon. about that time hav-
ing crops to get in, hired q hand. Joe
Green. a man about thirty years old.
who was O sight to behold. He had q
birthmark on his neck and when q
baby had fallen into 6re which had
SCARED his whole face Added to this.
he was freckled. and his hair was a
sort Of red sorrel. One night at barn
dance this scarecr0w was present The
girls would not dance with him. He
invited Rosa among the nrst, and she
turned her back on him without even
deAgning him an answer. That ended
bis invitations for partners. One Of
the young men asked him why he
didn't go through the whole list. and
he replied that since Rosa Thurber
would not dance with him he would
never dance with any other girl. OF
course this was repeated to Miss Thur
Der, who said that she was pleased to
save the other girls the pain Of being
invited to dance by such scarecrow
The next thing that Rosa heard
about Joe Green was that when twit-
ted about finding, or rather not finding.
a girl to marry him he had said that
the only girl in the world he would
care to marry was Rosalind Thurber
On hearing 1t she said that he had as
much chance Of marrying her as he
had of marrying the empress Of Ger
many
One day when Rosa was walking on
the road she met Joe. Her only no
tice Of his presence was to make q
face at him. He lifted his hat DO
litely.
Joe used to hang around the Thurber
farm in hopes Of getting sight of
Rosa. All the family noticed this and
used to twit her about 1t. One dav
when Joe had been sitting on a fence
for an hour, looking up at the house
where she lived. she astonished all
present by going out on the porch and
throwing some feed to the chickens.
Even then no one suspected that the
girl had been touched by Joe's devo-
ton and had gone out to reward him
with sight Of her. But under Joe's
LONELINESS was keen insight into a
woman's nature. and with great salts
faction he got down from the fence
and went away.
The next time she met Green was In
the evening when he was taking the
horses to water.
when are you going to stop making
guy of yourself about mer' she
asked.
I'm not making a fool Of myself"
he replied "Of all the men here
abouts I'm the only one that appre-
ciates you. You can't stop me from
loving you. no matter what You do"
"What do you love me forf'
"'Cause you're the only girl in the
world worth loving"
"How long have you loved meT
"Since the first night I ever saw you
at the barn dance"
"How long are you going to love
| mer
It'll the day Of Judgment"
There being no more information on
the subject to be derived. Rosa passed
on. leaving Joe to attend to the rest
| Of his chores.
After awhile Joe Green and Rosa
Il
J Thurber were seen occasionally walk
ing together Then they began to
be spoken of as beauty and the beast
Gus Walker who had been expecting
soon to be engaged to her, met her
one evening on the road with Joe. Joe
attempted to smile and made such a
horrible face of II that Gus forgot to
bow to Rosa. The next time Gus and
Rosa met he asked her where was her
scarecrow lover and received reply
that some persons were scarecrows on
! the outside and some persons were
scarecrows on the IN de Then she
turned on her heel and that was the
last there was of courtship between
the two.
One day 1t became reported that the
pretty Rosa Thurber was going to mar
ry that homely Joe Green No one
would believe 1t at first. but after sew