The daily Alaskan., 1914-02-16
Beauty and
 The Beast
By DWIGHT NoRwooD

 Is true, the fact remains that great many very pretty women have married painfully ugly men, It does seem to be the case that women are captured by men in an entirely different way from what men are captured by wom- en. Perhaps if the subject were fol lowed out scientifically 1t would be found in the fact that the man is snared by weakness, while the woman is snared by strength.
 ROsalind Thurber was very pret. ty country girl at the age telghteen) when most girls are at their prettiest and was q 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 hay. ing crops to get in, hired a hand, Joe Green. a man about thirty years old. who was a sight to behold. He had birthmark on his neck and when baby had fallen into a fire which had scared lis whole face. Added to this, he was freckled.- and his hair was a sort of red sOrrel. One night at barn dance this srarecrOw was present. The girls would not dance with him. He invited Rosa among the first, and she turned her back on him without even deigning him an answer That ended his invitations for partners. One of the young men asked him why he didn't go through the whole list, and be 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 be 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 a face at him. He lifted his hat po- Iitely.
 Joe used to hang around the Thurber farm in hopes of getting a sight of Rosa. All the family noticed this and used to twIt her about 1t. One day 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- tlon and had gone out to reward him with a sight of her But under Joe's homeliness was keen insight into a woman's nature and with great satis 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 d guy of yourself about me?" she asked
 "Tm not making a fool of myself" he replied "Of all the men here abouts I'm the only one that apDre- ciates you. You can't stop me from loving you, no matter what you do."
 What do you love me for?'
 "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 me?"
 "Till 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 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 it that Gus forgot to bow to Rosa. The next time Gus and | Rosa met he asked her where was her | scarecrow lover and received a reply l that some persons were scarecrows on l the outside and some persons were scarecrows on the inside. Then she 1 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 sev- eral of Rosa's friends had asked her about 1t and she had admitted 1t 1t was accepted as a fact. They were mar ried, and the most astonishing part of