The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1905-10-19
Students Of Physiognomy d
clare Facial Expression Sure
Index TO Character.
ONE STORY He saw
The Tired Lsskirs Wema. with ort
Hair WINE Waited for che vesnss~
One Who Carried the
osby.
From the Kansas c,ry stsr.

Faces N faces n faces EysSI
fsce n story and not a few ssort<s tr.|
gedics. Broaxed and haggardl card
81 aud opuient. eager. baffis6l an{
drug stupid they passed the big win
dow OF q Kansas City hotel yestcrds}
where two men sat watching theu(
And each aaw what he saw with thI
eyes the gods had given him
All over this little world . has(
watched the faces OF men and womsn.t
said one man. an he sucked n idl(
vain search for fortune has bronghl
me nothing else IL has left with ma 4
least a knowledge OF human naturd
There II nothing like first impressiohS
N you have the instinct for measuring
man. They are like good snapshot
photographs. untouched by an artist(
brush and not seftened by more ~ienien}
judgment. ! have neve& obiiterated !
first Impression without regretting N
But Hike sitting In such a place Al
this and reading stories Into he lived
ef people who pass my window"
Write n novel"
''Pshaw! I ind &c difhcuit To write I
letter. And none OF my stories havi
endinEs. Not In America ut any rate|
In Europe II II different. Radically
different"
IN huMt Way Z NVc OtHEE tlMfl 41Af1I
why. because the faces Of peopl1
there 20 often tell you that their STORED
are finished. done with. Here Ia thii
land Of new opportunities there II all
ways thu promise az another chancel
And one dominant characteristic n
both peoples In different. too. L hasd
watched faces In London. hundreds II
them. and they were all touched. u
some way. by the fear OF CALLING pow
.wex - a,.ll ,kflaRatlnn Tho FnaI
10 80 crowded and narrow that every
man knows IL he drops he win ID
trampled upon and forgotten. And
generations Of people living with I'D
knowledge OF that fact as part OF theij
daily lives have come at last TO show 4
In their faces"
And herei"
why. every y Is individual Therj
II confidence In themselves n thi
world. They dor their caps 10 ~
man as the Sctoch poet says. Thr1
know that In this country n mas 4
never 'down and out until he In dead.
A Story for Every Qua at Them.
But. still. they have their s%iories
tooy-
EVERY one Of them" replied thd
thoughtful man. nlling his pipe AM
there goes one OF them now"
A woman with silver sprinkied haid
and n tired. patient face stopped before
the window and waited ca the side
walk. Presently n man. stalwart and
bronxed. came from q car and waited
while q young and pretty weman
stepped out holding n baby In her arms|
They greeted the older woman. whd
took the child and kissed Il lovingly
The three walked away.
Tho Story He Saw
There's my story" said the mar
blowing rings Of smoke from his lips
from prologue to nnis. Once upon 4
time he went on. there lived a yound
man In Kansas City. brave n adven1
turous. He loved n girl who was his
own age. He told her that he was
going to the golden west to seek bis
him. Che did. Waited and waited
years and years. Her mother died 81
became housekecper for her father and
mother to her younger sister. Thee
her father died and left them pooriY
or. She worked TO keep herself and
educate her sister. Her lover wrot-
often at first and then less frequently
He had not found his Eldorado. Sh-
was a pretty and attractive young wo-
man then. but she kept her troth faith
fully. Another man appeared then whl
lover her. She refused. He asked
again and again. He was not much 81
n marrying man. but he loved her. II Z
never has loved another woman Hef
sister grew up. When she was nine
teen the fortune hunter came back. IL
had found his fortune. The man look
cd at the tired eyes and the weary fac.
of the woman who had waited so faith
fully for him all those years Then ne
saw her sister with the bloom OF youth
In her cheeks. He married the sister
And the other man"
rs still unmarried. He a knockei
about the world since then n good desl
still loving that oma And sh-
tells him that 10 In too late. So you So
sometimes some of us. even In America
are down and out"
Did you know that man!" said hi'
dun friend.
The story teller Knocked out hts p,ps
and looked ut his Questioner o
half-ciosed eyes.
Yes" he answered slowly. Il kncs
him. You didn't"