The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1920-11-25
4 Beauty
Match
copyright. 1917. Western Newspaper O"n'u
By JAMES BRAlNAR0

ever see. nc Huu u A~'A
hair thick as a mop. His Wel'-Ntpt
white teeth under his black nltStAche
formed . nue contrast, and he h"d
clear complexion. Sallie Morgan was
~ purtv for gal as Tom wa@ Tor
man She too had beaulilu' mead oi
hair reachin' down when she stoou up
to within u foot OF the IIoor.
Well, they soon got enSageu anu
everybody said they'd MAKE the haho-
soonest couple that had ever heei' '''ti'
ried IN .Joneshoursh. But them beauty
marriages with notlin else 10 oach
EN- I'D are unsartin', Tom had nothlh
with which TO support wife, ana Sal
lie wasn't a robust gal at all. SO the
veddiu' couldn't come off in q hurry.
Tom was offered position away OUT
| West. and he and Sallle concluueu
| that he'd better accept 1t. and when
he found he was dozen well he couiu
come for her and take her back with
him. \,
reckon there was a sorro"1u1
parten, only they was bouyed w ny
the hope that after year OK TWO
they'd cit together again. Tom lett
a photograph Of himself and took one
Of Sallie. Toms was just like him.
but Sallie's not shaving her red lips
| and a tinge of color in her cheeks
! wasn't quite so pretty as the original.
Sallie set Toms picture up on her
bureau and every time she combed
her beautiful hair she divided her
elances between the hair and the
photograph.
Tom hadn't been away from Saline
ten minutes before he began TO write
to her. He started in while the tram
was rolling out Of the station. by
the time he reached the place ne was
going to he had letter of thirty
: pages written, and had mailed her
postals at all important stations. Sal
lie began written as soon as her eyes
= were dry enough after cryen, to see
, the paper she was written on. The
first few. days after Toms departure
4 she only stopped written for meals.
Q Them letters kept going from one
to the other for years. Just when they
began to grow less~-just when they
stopped, only Tom and Sallie knew
i Tom was unfortunate In everything
he undertook. He got sick a year
after he parted with Sallie, and was
' In the hospital six months. When he
: came out he had to begin all over
T again. He never wrote sallie thai
they'd better give each other up; moi
did sallie write that to him. Bctt
} hoped that some day Tom would nave
g stroke Of luck and their dream O
happiness would come true
Well, reckon 1t was about twenty
Ave years after these models OF con
stuncy geparated-neither murrief
anyone else--that one day an OH
v party bald as q coot. and what few
!. hairs was left on his head white q
!. snow, stopped me on the street. an
" sai1:
aren't you Norman Dale7"
"rhat's thy nalne," I answered, loos
en- ut him trying to remember hin
"Who may you be7'
why, NormunI" he said reache
for my hand, "don't you know me
=, I'm your old chum TON Nicholson"
- "You don't mean it?"
er lord, how you've changed,
wouldn't "a knowed you, Il you hadn
. been pointed out to me. Have
changed muchT
10 This made me Mad aud I feIDarke
sarcast!cnlly:
Not bit. You're the same lGnt
~ some Teller sou was when tor lei
"a here twenty-five years ago.
IS II want to know" he said, looKIu
-, me in the eye to find out whether
> no was flattering him
" ION the WHOLE" added, II thln
you've improved"
=, This satisfied him and he went &
~ asking me about different persons /
8, had left in the town, most OF who
w were dead. Finally he asked about 81
!, lie Morgan. He had swallowed what
" had said about his own appearance,
10 ! wondered II he would gulp dow
ag what I'd say about sallis. said tn
she was more mature, but I didn't thir
she had lost any Of her beauty. {
q. told me that luck had come to him
J, last and he had come home to III
=, sallie. and tuke her back West wi
. him IS his wife.
r. We talked q long while about 0
TIMES and then I told Tom there VI
to be a lecture that evening: we VI
=" all going. and he'd better 50 alon
IT. He said he was gong to see his 0
he sweetheart. / told him she would
-. at the lecture, and he consented to
10 with me.
90 Tom cat1le to my house for supp'
av and q little later We all went to t
= lecture. Sallie Morgan sat three sec
- In front Of us. Tom looked about 1
zoe her and not seeing the girl he IL
c. behind him asked me If she was
~ the house. I pointed her out to hi
VA Gu, nod oro,rn verv hashv. weight