"When friends come to cheer them up they sigh softly and say, 'Ah, no;
it is too late. Once I had aims and aspirations, but Fate has swept
them all away. I shall only drift and drift now, until it is all
over.'
"Then, the comforters go away with tears in their eyes and send her
flowers.
"'How the poor child has suffered,' they say. But Providence only has
a quiet laugh up her sleeve and says, as she winks the other eye,
"'What fools these mortals be!'"
THE TELEPHONE FACE
"What's the matter with that man?" said the Observer, repeating his
friend's interrogation, as they passed a pedestrian wearing a most
prodigious frown. "Don't you know what's the matter with him? He's got
the telephone face.
"Never heard of it, eh? Well, that shows that your powers of
perception are not particularly acute. The telephone face is no longer
a physiognomical freak, but a prevalent expression among the several
thousand unfortunate clerks and business men who find extensive use
for the telephone necessary. It is a distinctive cast of features,
too, which can readily be distinguished from any other by one who can
read faces at all.
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