Evening star., 1925-02-20

Faces, faces, faces-I wonder what
they mean.
Everywhere one goes he sees faces.
Washington is filled with them. They
range from the bobbed haired, youth
full face of the girl to the dry, white
haired face Of the old man. These
faces are the people.
Washington faces run the gamut
from babyhood to very old age, from
solemnity to gayety, from innocence
to crime, from good will to meanness,
as all faces everywhere do.
Commonly we never stop to think k
how much In thrall our lives are to
faces. Perhaps the earliest subcon-
scious memory of all is Of the moth
ers' face. bending down over us when
we were too little to know or under
stand.
There was the fathers face, then
the face Of the big man who always
stopped to pat us on the head. Then
the faces OF comrades. playmates,
| teachers, little friends and foes of
childhood days.
1t was at faces we looked, as we
grew up, faces composed of eyes. ears,
| noses, mouths-as all faces are, of
| course-but because they were the
faces that were connected with our
particular being, they became the old
familiar faces.
Then. as we grew older, we extend
ed our horizon of faces. until at last
faces Of all kinds became so familiar
that we forgot to look upon them
in the old childhood way of wonder
We lapsed, so that a face of a
grave, bombastic man did not much
| differ from the face of sweet, fresh
| child, unsullied and unspoiled as the
| first violet of Spring that peeps up
to greet the hardened sinner.
Now the time has come again to
look at faces as faces, and to rejoice
In the wondrous study of them.
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| Here is street car scene. on one
of the dumpty one-man box cars
with the seats running along the side
one long row of faces staring at an
othe- long row of faces.
There is not much else to do but
stare, that is why every one does It
| The young man etares at the young
, girl, and the girl stares back until
| she Is forced TO look down at her
shoes.
Getting an inspiration she looks
steadfastly at the shoes OF the young
man. The latter grows nervous. What
| is the matter with his shoes? Did he
forget to lace them when he went
| out?
| Maybe he absent -mindedly put on
| one black shoe and one brown one
/ There must be something terrible the
| matter with them Judging from the
way that damsel is giving them the
old 'once over"
With fear and trembling he shifts
his gaze from the girls face to his
own shoes. TO discover that his boots
are in perfectly proper condition
| as far a s he can see.
| Two high school girls are discuss
| ing the terrible tragedy of the poor
girl who tried to kin her baby They
could see the headlines of the paper
| held by a man across the aisle
One of the girls had small face
! surrounded by a mass of red bobbed
| hair. She could not see why the gir
wanted to commit suicide. too.
| Il wouldn't want to kill myself
! would you?" she piped up, so the
! whole car could hear. Il wouldn't
| want to die. Oo-o-o-oo''
Her companion, a fat face, in q
brown bob, said she thought the gir
was entirely in the right, SO there.
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| The car was filled with faces
| There was a tall girl, with lean
somewhat sallow face. surrounded b.
| long wisps of her bobbed black hair
Her face divided attention with hel