The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-16
A SCANDAL HOUND.
Did You Ever Take the Trouble
To Study One2
You Knoxville Kind That Sees
Everything Black.
FEMALE OF SPECIES WORST
Topeka, However, Also Has the
Male Malignant.
Always the Face Shows the
Trend of the Mind.
FEMALE OF SPECIES WORST

Did you ever meet up with a gloom
spreader? One OF the sort that is
never pleased with anything or any
body. Don't you love it?
There are those who lack inteIH-
gence. whose brain power is of such
minus calbre that they are incapable.
OF talking about anything in the
world except other persons.
That's all right in itself. There is
nothing Of more interest in the world
TO most persons outside OF themselves
than other persons. It's all perfectly
natural that one should be interested
in other persons-what they do, what
they have done. what they are going
to do, their characters. dispositions.
likes, dislikes, hopes. ambitions and
fears.
But when you meet one that is ut
terly incapable Of saying anything
nice about any person. man, woman
or child-one who leaves a sting in
every other eXpressiOn-one who dOtes
on the vague. epttiousness of
subtle innuendo-one who sees no
good. no beauty. no charm or attrac-
uveness in anything under the sun,
but rather sees only the scum. the
secret behind the locked door, the
family skeleton or imagined hayward
ness and inability to stay on the
straight and narrow path in every per-
son she knows or even heard Of, it is
absolutely disgusting.
When you meet one like that don't
you love II? You do II you are of
the same mental caliber and cast on
the same mold.
such Girl Hero.
For instance. there IL a girl in our
town who qualities. She is a past
master Of the art OF mud singing.
she smears all persons regard essly,
whether she knows them or not.
The worst OF it is the girl is pretty
She came near being exceptionally
Pretty. Near-because she is young
now-5ut already the trend Of her
thought has crept into the look in her
eyes IL is beginning to twist an
otherwise beautiful mouth and pair
Of red lips into the mean cynical slant
so Characteristic Of the misanthrope
who sees no good or beauty in the
world. Her facc-full of a certain
type Of beauty when she was younger
is lengthening out into the hard
angular lines surrounding a pair of
ewes that Elea m not with the sheer
JOY and happiness Of being alive but
with the half-fanatical metallic gaze
Of the hardened scandal hound.
Aside from being sort OF good
looking girl she is one who dresses ex-
an attractive appearance. on the
street you would look 1T her-per-
hops twice. Then il you had any
ability to road faces at ALL you would
locl, long into her face and pity her,
perhaps II showS-aU NJ 1t.
She Carries n Warning.
II carries warning 70 all the world
that she is watching for the siir-the
slip that most humans make not once
but several times. perhaps. in their
progress thru life up--nOt down, I'M
d-rstand-up the hard road OF expert
ence. She waits TO grab the delicious
Tnorsel ard spread II upon the four
winds OF the world. Whether 1t is true
or not, whether she knows the per-
sors personally or not. or whether II
will do n great deal OF harm and in
fury to the persons Concerned--it is
good story and a good story must be
told
This type OF story teller. spinner Of
warns. believes that II can never harm
her. Sometimes IL does tho. Some
times one has to eat a story they have
spun But disregard altho these fea-
lures. There II another hurt. One
that is absolutely irreparable.
mind IS distorted, ruined render
ed inca pable Of fine, sweet thought;
face IS twisted from something
beautiful into something hard. 1t
ceases to be n face. It becomes a
mask from behind which the world
IS watched as it goes by. It has the
prying. curious. bold yet sinking look
Of the person who goes out in the
world to steal what is good and lose
It. to mar and destroy what IS beau
tiful. That Is the pity of II all. Slow
" almost imperceptibly the poison in
the brain works into the face of this
kind OF person and destroys what
beauty she may possess. In the end
T. is she who suffers the most thru
loss Of all friends.
The thing is not limited to women
either. some men are addicted to the
habit just as consistently. All the
world is black
A French writer asserts that the French
people count more on the 1900 maria ges