The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-04-27
A FACE TO ORDER.

NoePs Queer Expe riencc. and the Lesson
1t Taught Him.
'.Noe], take that face out of the
room and do not come back with it,
The teacher spoke sternly, and the
boy. with scowl between his eyes,
and pouting lips, shuffled across the
floor.
Raise your feet from the floor"
said the teacher.
Then he took short mincing steps,
and felt as if he would like to do some
thing desperate.
The boy went out, slamming the
door behind him. He did not know
what he was going to do about it. He
felt cross; his bicycle was broken; the
boys were going nutting; he had q
horrid lesson to learn. 1t seemed to
him that he was an ill-used bow, and
he never once thought of putting the
blame where 1t belonged, at the door
of his own carelessness.
Where should he 60 to get face to
order? In the warm sunshine he sat
and thought about it. Fido and Selim
were OH the piazza. Edo wagged his
tail, and was rewarded with cuff.
Selim purred, and got a push. The
frown seemed to be not only on Noel's
face, but in his hands, to make them
SO unkind.
Down at the foot of the garden he
saw what looked like the opening of
an underground tunnel. He thought
he would go in and walk along. He
met no one, but heard strange sounds.
Farther on, kind of door swung into
large, shoplike kind of place, full of
all sorts Of people, talking busily. Noel
went in, and stood on one side. A
little fellow, with very tight fitting
clothes, STEPPED up and asked what he
could be served with.
"a face to ORDER" said Noel.
The little man kept bowling his
head Eyes; oh! yes, certainly.
That's what they all come here for.
Come this way, and I will show you
what we have, and you may select
what you like. Here are compilations,
now-pale, horil, liyid, yellow,
dark, light =. H, opened show
case gay with color. Then he took
the covers from several boxes, say
ing: "Then here are eyes-black.
blue, brown, gray, violet nondescript;
round, oval, oblong; narrow slit eyes;
wide-open, staring eyes, all sorts.
see" and he put his hand in and
tumbled them over. Noel, with all
the eyes winking and blinking at him,
never felt so funny in his life.
"And here are the noses" his CON-
panion continued, turning to another
box; straight, crooked, broken. bent.
long, short, stub, hooked. Grecian,
Roman, classic, retrousse, or
turned up on the end; and
the lips, oh, yes, right over here,
along side of the smiles and frowns,
here we have them, thick and thin,
long and short. With these you can
have makeup fair as a June morn
ing, or black as Thunderstorm.
What do you sayp All, you want
pleasant expression All right. Step
on this platform, and lie back in the
Big easy chair. Here, Nimble and
Expert, attend to this young gentle
man; a pleasant face, now, remem-
ber"
Noel was seized gently by each arm,
assisted up some steps, and into a
eapacious chair tilted well backwards.
Now came curious sensation. A
sharp line was drawn round each eye.
the nose and mouth; and then he had
such strange feelings; nothing but
great holes in his face, and nose after
nose was fitted; eyes clapped in, and
taken out, and tried again; lips
pinched into place; and at last every
thing seemed to suit the little attend
ants, and they said they had nothing
more to do but attend to the COM
plexion.
While this operation was in progress
Noel had time to oh serve what was
going on around him. A big, burly
fellow came noisily in. picked out a
pair Of black, blood-shot eyes, a red,
swollen nose and thick, tobacco
stained lips. Noel felt afraid Of him,
and asked Nimble where he was going
''Oh, only home to his wife and chill
dren. He comes in here almost every
night 10 got fitted ont II, that way.
They have to run for their lives so,ne-
times, Z