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Show K 1 1 : 1 il 'I ' FACTORY WHERE OUR FACES COME FROM Ifllii 'Ifn iV ' il 11 socms 10 mo 1 can in,il5lo what tho 'jjU I j, if J . Face Factory looks like. It's In u sltlo 'III! If' I'l 1 '' 'B I street somowhero downtown, In a uecllon j 1 1 M fVf P i? M 01,00 11,0 Qbodo of stoJB". self-satisfied 1 )U 111 J h lV K! ! Rutherford B. JJayesl.in Business, but I ' I f! , now tho shabby shelter of Thcodoro ltooscvcltlnn Small Industry. It l: in a back room on tho second floor; tho windows win-dows haven't been washed In I don't know whm, and tho "stuff" la stewing I in a donblo-boller on top of tho whitewashed white-washed cannon stove In the middle of the room. Fm? Fin? Smells llko glue. Sort of sandy-haired man ho Is, stubby mustache, wears a blue-and-whlto striped ticking: npron, and I1I3 thumbs curl backward, back-ward, tho man tiiat runs the Faco Factory, Fac-tory, says 2ufjr-nt Wood In an article lull of both whimsy and henrt throbs In the August Broadway lUagnzlno. "Billy," hn says to tho long-legged, loose-lipped boy ho hat? lor helper, "how many times dn you suppose 1 got to tell you to lot tho stuff set awhile before you mako It up? If I've told vou once, l'vo told you fifty times. .list tako a look at that Inst batch o" noses, .list look at 'em! Every last one of 'cm Is droopln' llko a taller candle In ibo dog days. My land o' goodness! good-ness! I gotta stand over you every mln-nto mln-nto to git a thing done right! Seoma like." "You Bald for mo to hurry 'em up," growls tho boy. "I didn't tell you to mommlck 'cm up. did 1? And furthermore. And furthermore, further-more, I don't want you to talk back to mo like that. I won't have It! D'ye understand? un-derstand? Xow, my" bold bucko, .list for that, you've gol.ln. tlx every ono o' tllum right before you go homo tonight. I can't let no such botches go out 0' my Yen, sir, J'm the man. What can 1 do fi. yaY . 'cll' Va know 'bout Vodncs- day, I kind o' promised I'd Yes. I know, but what am I goln' to do? Well, couldn i t .you put it off till next week Homo time, say the latter part o' Uin- VhJle ho is haggling with tho customer f "TLU,.ly.,8,lmnUly mine to Improve the noses that have drooped nnd sagged alt out of shape by reason of having been put on too sofu From this pendulous KeH In ton '''MM |