St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1890-05-24
VALUE OF A LOOK.
Faces Which Are n Good to Their Own0rs
~ Bank Accounts.

~ Bank Accounts.
A pretty maid whose face was her
fortune shares her luck with more peO-
pie than she imagines. Is beauty thcn
so common? No, pretty maid, enjoy
that first and most satisfactory distinc-
tion in all certainty that it will be al.
ways the rarest as we'll as the most de.
lightful OF human advantages; but listen
to some facts about the faces which,
though not at all beautiful, are as good
to their owners as q considerable sum
invested in gilt-edged securities.
My attention was first called to this
by my roommate at college. lie was a
youth Of very moderate intellectual en-
dowments, and, moreover, given to the
pursuit of certain athletic sports. which
crowded the minor cares of classics and
mathematics to the wall. However, his
success in the recitation room was SO
great that only his most intimate friends
ever suspected that he was not the
most distinguished genius of the whole
fifty or more in the class. ''liOw do
you do it?" ! asked one day. "Will
you promise. if I let you in, not to do it
yourself?" he responded. When l had
sworn not to infringe upon his system.
he explained: "YOu see Prof. Blank
is always looking out for the fellows
that don't know any thing Of what he is
talking about and coming down on them
with a perfect poser. When they funk
doubled his salary. So in his classes l
always look as intelligent as possible
this way" And he illuminated his
face with look which an actor might
have envied. 'Of course he thinks he
can't get me on that, and the question
goes along to some man who knows twice
as much, but whose face bellies him. On
the rare occasions when do know some
thing, l look like this"-he wrinkled
his brow into slightly puzzled express
sion-''and he is down on me in an in
stant Prof. Dash's ambition is just the
other way. He wants, in his blessed
good nature, TO give every body chance
to shine; so for him I reverse the ex-
pressions, and look intelligent when l
know something and despairing when
don't In this way l make my little
learning far from a dangerous thing.
See?''
Another man who made his talent
serve him we'll was the paying-teller OF
a certain bank. In private life his ex-
preston was ordinarily good-natured:
but. once behind his window in the
bank, he put on forbidding look which
made depositors think twice before they
went to get money No false claimant,
check-raiser or forger would dare pre-
sent himself at that opening. and only
rarely did even the most solid Of custom
ers venture to suggest that he would
like the privilege of Temporarily over
drawing his account 1t took a clean
financial conscience to face the teller,
and only the happy consciousness of
big balance could nerve a man per-
sonally to present a check large enough
TO carry him through the day. Strangely
enough. when this clerk would take the
receiving-teller's place for few days,
in the vacation season or when illness
reduced the working force, his face as
sumed so delightful an expression Of
good will that no patron could resist
the pleasure of depositing as frequently
as possible. The sum he saved the
bank by encouraging deposits and dis
Withdrawals can never be es-
Fields Washington Let
ter.