Show THE CHRISTMAS FACE hypo of seen in holiday atlass the christmas lace has become a distinctive feature of modern life as much so as the bicycle face ts appearance annually a few weeks before the holidays and gradually disappears toward spring it can now be seen se en on thousands of women v ho wander anxiously up and down the crowded streets tolling from window to window pushing their eager ways into the dense knots of humanity and a with hungry eyes at the christmas gifts displayed it is seen in the big stores where the shopper threads endless aisles and handles over the lauge piles of christmas offerings in search of something suitable it takes weeks of riding through crowded streets to acquire the bicycle face but the christmas face usually begins to assume fixed lines after two days shopping and atthe end of a week the earnest and energetic seeker after bargains has developed a look of anxious restless and painful expectancy borderer en mild insanity the christmas face is easily distinguished the eyes are never in repose they roll from side to side and take on a haunted hungry look as they peer into the agop windows and lay bare the innermost secrets of bargain counters they rove over bewildering acres of fancy work and shrink with bloodshot terror as they gaze into the seas of blue and green and yellow art works displayed in the fake christmas stores often they light up with hopeful tenderness as they rest lovingly upon some rare bit of artistic beauty in oil or fabric but quickly darken with despair when the price ticket is displayed the mouth assumes a hardened expression the lips are tightly drawn into sour and sternly bitter curves at the corners the lines of the cheeks arc sunken and the brows are heavy with doubt and deeply corrugated the clain is pushed out at an angle of about 0 degrees and the entire countenance betokens be tokens varying shades of sickening anxiety deferred hope and pathetic martyrdom all blended into a sort of fixed and vacuous insanity chicago tribune |