A SOUR FACE by Christian Endeavor World

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 31, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 44.

A SOUR FACE.

By Christian Endeavor World

In a certain retail store are two young lady clerks. Their counters are side by side. One clerk speaks fluently two or three languages, is quick at figures, and keeps her counter in beautiful shape. But, judging from the looks of her face, you would think that some time she had been out in a thunder-storm from the effects of which she had turned sour.

The other young lady knows no foreign language, and can not speak even her own mother tongue very well. She is rather slow at figures, and her counter does not always look in the best shape. But, O! what a sunny, witching, winsome face she has; and customers flock about her like bees about a honey bush in full bloom.

One day the floor-walker overheard an old country auntie request the sunny-faced girl to wait on her from the other counter.

"But that is not my counter," replied the girl.

"Ach!" whispered the auntie from foreign shores, "nebber mind. You wait on me. She"—shrugging her shoulders—"she so sour face!"

What a sermon for an old country woman! Have you sunshine in your face?