Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-07-30
EXCURSION FACES,
The Latest Curiosity in the WAY Of
Studies.
A Few Observations About the Modorn r..
cursionomaniac.

The bicycle face has been discus.ea
M II IS worn out, that is the discus
SION Is worn out, not the face. The
soda water drinker face is The latest
IN the Inc OF faces to be publicly
dwelt upon as all the other kinds are
getting to be DISTINGUISHING to study.
but who ever studied the excursion
face?
Wen. if you haven't you have missed
one of the grandest studies of your
life.
The excursion face mentioned is not
the kind that some of the young lad
les start With, ana come home with
out if the day is warm, but the face
that God gave the person who goes
upon the excursion.
Now the excursion face deserves a
place in the ranks of the face studies
as much as any, for there are probably
as pure types of the face as there are
in any of the studies.
You can tell the face when YOU see
II AT the railroad station, on the street,
in church, ANA. in fact. everywhere II
wears the same expression the world
over fhough the settings may he
different, that face will show the in
quisitiVe eyes, ever rowing about try
a hn,nllla ti.Ilf T., N tad ANit all
their environments. This expression
about the eyes which shows the long
ing of the person to ever have a
change of scene that the eyes may
have a feast. gradually affects the
whole face, until it is never at rest,
unless it is in a strange placean then
the face wears the expression of a
Shylock. gioating over the prizes thai
the eye is gaining, and that the brain is
slowing away 20 deal out by piece
meal when the excursion is over
When these scenes are again brought
before the eye, it will he perhaps on
the street when the man is about his
regular ork. At once the face assumes
mood seizcs the man, So that he may
pass his best friend without noticing
him. When the rxcursionist fiend gets
in this stage of the game. he is sur
fcring from what is known TO the
medical profession as excursion
omania and the only cure is n flying
"Trip of y hours, 50 thai he Will he So
tired that sleep must lac resorted 70.
The cXcursionomaniac is then ready
for several days Ia be on earth with
his friends ana to attend TO business
then the terrible malady attacks him.
ana he must resort to the cure again
There is no permanent cure for the
rXculsionomaniac, ana instead Of
getting better as the years roll over
his head, he grows worse.
Not all who go on the excursions
have the disease, as they have not
been in the way Of going on cXcur-
sions long enough. Yet every excur-
sionomania is breeding the germ Of
the disease in his heart ana unless he
stops almost whore he starts he is
forever doomed.
Here is young clerk in a Water
stree store. He has not the time to
90 during the week days. and when
| sunday comes he is glad to get the
chance of cheap rate Of fare. to
some distant seaside resort or to
some inland place. BY patronizing
thes, excursions, he gets to be worse
than woman bargain hunter. and
With the excursion face viii be placed
the bargain hunting face that 50 much
| is heard about. The two types of
| faces make a combination that is To
be feared.
Ills said that if an excursionomanac
should marry a confirmed bargain
| hunter. their children would be 50 de
generate that some might prove to he
Weary Willies of the worst type.roam-
ing about the world hunting fer new
scenes, and great things for small
prices. Many perhaps hunting for
that great curiosity something for
nothing"
This young clerk goes at first for the
purpose Of going somewhere. and
meeting the young ladies with whom
he can spoon to his hearts content,
but in time that object gradually sinks
into oblivion. and he becomes a ficnd
for excursions, even to the end of life
when h. looks forward 10 dying.on ac-
count of the long journey that may
follow and all the way for nothing.
The East Side Shoe Store has pur-