Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1911 — MEANEST WOMAN IS FOUND [ARTICLE]

MEANEST WOMAN IS FOUND

Despicable Trick That Or* From Ltm Angeles Played on Her Kansas City Frtand. We often hear of tho meanest man, and his delinquencies are exposed to b scornful world with merciless severity, hut little Is said of the meanest woman, on the theory, presumably that the dear creatures are so sweet and ethereal that the quality of meanness does not abide In their composition, the Kansas City Journal says: But assuming, for the sake of argument, that an attractive woman could be mean, the meanest one has certainly been found in Kansas City, according to the following testimony: One day this week, so the story goes, a very pretty young woman gave a photograph of a rather good-looking young man to a negro maid at the Union depot. On the back was the following inscription: "To Evelyn— The best little girl in the world. May she always remain so. Fred.” The young woman also gave the maid a smaller picture of the same young man, bound in an attractive silver frame. “I’m going away to my home, out to Los Angeles,” she said, "and I don’t want to carry these pictures with me. I’ve written to my chum to come here and get them. I’ve been visiting her. He is ber husband and a dandy fellow.” Speaking of Adam laying the blame on Eve, here is a piece of pure, unadulterated meanness; if the revealed faots are not wholly misleading, that beats Adam and his tribe to thp present generation “all hollow.” The girl had accepted the young man’s attentions, likewise his bonbons, joy rides, thrilling whispers on the stairs and all the stolen sweets that go to make up the menu of forbidden fruits that relieve life’s dull inonotony and likewise play hob with domestic happiness. Not only had she accepted hie. advances, but the circumstantial evidence—though some people profess to doubt the validity of evidence of that sort —goes to show that she had not been wholly a passive quantity in the moods and tenses of the affair. And yet, when the fnn Is over - and the stolen fruits are sucked dry, she leaves a sour lemon in their place for the husband and wife to divide between them. There are a few mean men in this dreary old world, but one has yet to be found mean enough to stir up, through a sheer spirit of wantonness and malevolence, discord where peace and love reigned before. It takes a woman to win confidence and then put a bitter drop in another woman’s cup of happiness.