Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-12-01
GERTRUDE OVENS SAYS SIGHT
OF ROY cANsY NAusEATss
HER.
STILL LOVES HIM AND
WILL NOT WE'D ANOTHER
Young Woman Whose Rejection OF
Wounded Soldier Caused Him to
Attempt Suicide Goes to Him-Aa'
mits She I. luakeress and Has
Hatred Of War.

Won like to sit opposite to a MAN AZ
the breakfast table all the rest OF your
DAYS whose face was so SCARED th"'
YOU lost your appetite every time th"'
YOU looked at it. Well you'd starve 10
DEATH" sad pretty 2s-year-oh Ger
,ruds Givens. 1895 Cherry street Kan
sas City, Mo. to a reporter on Chi
eaco bound Burlington train.
Miss Givens, pretty, tall. blue eFea
blonde. Is the childhood sweetheart OK
Roy Candy, -, who tried to coAN'''
suicide al the farm OF his eFo'hei'
Samuel Schrnelling. northeast or TINS
city. after two weeks OF weeping ana
dsspou ienCy because the girl Nite9
him because he had returned from
three wears overseas service n FRANCE
with :ne side of his face terribly scar
red by mustard gas.
Mss Giyens was visiting with re!a-
lives at Howclls, Neb., when she was
informed OF the young mans attempt
10 take his life. on receiving te!e-
phone call from Mrs. Schmellins' the
Young mans sister. Miss Givens. SUD
denly decided that she wanted 70 see
Roy Candy again and took a North
western train to Omaha. As usual
los was late and when she arrived
the Schmelliugs had left for chicago
to take the young man 20 speciaHs'
In neurasthenic cases.
Girl Follows Man.
The girl followed on the next train
which left shortly after $3.50 O'CLOCK
and on the way 20 Council Bluffs WI
interviewed as to why she wou
throw over a man" whose three years
Of service N the great war won him
TIE crotx de- guerre and promotion TO
rank Of captain -
IT have loved Roy ever since we
were youngsters. We went thru
school together. I still love him and
wouldn't want any other man but
I won't have a man whose face looks
like II Rad beer branded with small
waffle iron. When ne IS away from
me love him but when I see his face
I hate him" said the girl sohotnr.
But DO you think that beauty n
only skin deep?"
mo. But then the war changed
Roy. It changed his looks and his
actions. He used TO love fun and a
good time ard since he's got back he
takes life 30 seriously. He talks about
humanity religion and how We ought
to live better and all that sort Of stuff
:t1l he makes q person he talks 70 feel
| like 30 cents"
But isn't ft true you told him he
was too home,y to marry? And didn't
you think you might have let him
down easy instead Of being so abrupt?
You could have made him Jealous or
something"
mo. I couldn't." snapped the girl
II may seem inhurnan but will be on
the square with Roy. never went
with another fellow and he never went
| with another girl. He wouldn't and
neither would I. won't lie to him.
It hurts me to let him 60 az much
as It does him.
Say, reporter II you were in icve
with a beautiful girl ana soma acct
dent SCARED her face so that the face
you had pictured in your mind. :he
| face you loved. was SO changed that 1t
nauseated you when you looked at It,
, would you stick to that girl? There
| isn't man living who will stick to
| woman he isn't married to II she looks
so bad that It makes you shudder when
you see her face. Believe me. know
the men. One thing I'll say for Roy
| ne was always decent. But q man
don't care how rotten he is he wants
| a good woman and a pretty one. II a
man narries homely girl after he Is
| 25 you can bet he don't love her He
| wants a housekeeper. Or perhaps the
pretty ones are all taken. Apply It 70
wonan's case now. Any woman can
nail down a horely man. The hand