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do not really possess. For instance, in one 

 of the best known of all, the Biblical parable 

 of the lost sheep, it is not the sheep which 

 speaks. If this were a fable the sheep would 

 have the power of speech, and would tell how 

 it had suffered for wandering from the fold, 

 and how the shepherd, leaving the ninety and 

 nine in safety, followed it through all its 

 dangers until he bore it back to safety. 



The earliest fables were written in India, 

 for the Oriental mind appears to have a pe- 

 culiar faculty for expressing itself by such 

 indirect means, and it seems certain that the 

 best-known fables in all the world, those fa- 

 mous ones called Aesop's Fables (which see), 

 were founded on these early Hindu tales. 

 Later writers have tried to imitate these sim- 

 ple, perfect stories, but few have succeeded. 

 Horace produced one, the Town Mouse and 

 Country Mouse, which is fit to rank with 

 Aesop's Hare and Tortoise, Fox and Grapes, 

 Lion and Mouse, Fox and Crow and other 

 classics; and Lafontaine, a French writer of 

 the seventeenth century, published a series of 

 Fables in verse which are by far the most 

 famous of all modern writings of this sort, and 

 are learned by every French school child. He 

 gave in four short lines the reason for the 

 popularity and effectiveness of fables: 



Fables in sooth are not what they appear ; 

 Our moralists are mice, and such small deer. 

 We yawn at sermons, but we gladly turn 

 To moral tales, and so, amused, we learn. 



Many of Andersen's best-loved tales, as The 

 Ugly Duckling, The Hardy Tin Soldier, The 

 Darning Needle, The Snow Queen, are fables 

 of a sort, in that they teach lessons through 

 stories, but they have far more complicated 

 happenings and a much greater wealth of detail 

 than has the typical fable. The same may be 

 said of Harris's Uncle Remus stories and of 

 Kipling's Jungle Books, which possess many of 

 the characteristics of fables. A.MC c. 



FAC.ADE, fasahd', the front of a building, 

 but particularly the principal front, or the 

 face. Unlike a person, a building may have a 

 number of faces. As a rule, though, there is 

 one facade more important than the others. 

 In cross-shaped churches, for instance, there 

 are usually north, south and west facades, of 

 which the last is the largest and most prom- 

 inent. A screen fagade is one which is broader 

 and higher than the building behind it. 



FACE, THE. No other portion of the hu- 

 man body is in itself quite so intimate a part 

 of the personality as the part we call the face. 



Every normal person comes into the world 

 with a forehead, two eyes, a nose, a mouth, a 

 pair of cheeks and a chin, which together com- 

 prise the face, but there is a different combina- 

 tion for each individual, and because of this 

 variety in the human countenance we learn 

 to recognize our fellow beings and to tell them 

 apart. While the term beauty, in connection 

 with the body, includes many other factors, 

 it refers primarily to the face; we consider 

 our friends beautiful when they have a pleas- 

 ing combination of features, eyes and com- 

 plexion. Through the face, too, is expressed 

 much of what goes on in the mind. There is 

 a circular muscle surrounding the mouth, and 

 one around each eye, while other muscles 

 radiate from the edges of these. By means 

 of the face muscles we express all our varied 

 emotions joy, grief, despair, contempt and a 

 host of other feelings. An American poet of 

 the nineteenth century, Abraham Coles, has 

 expressed this thought in these words: 



Unmatched by Art, upon this wondrous scroll 

 Portrayed are all the secrets of the soul. 



The skeleton of the face, exclusive of the 

 thirty-two teeth, consists of fourteen bones. 

 All but two of these, the lower jawbone (man- 

 dible) and the vomer, which separates the 

 nostrils, occur in pairs. The two bones of the 

 upper jaw form most of the hard palate in 

 the roof of the mouth. The two palate bones, 

 which complete the hard palate, lie in front 

 of the opening through which air passes into 

 the throat cavity from the nasal chambers. 

 The cheek bones are the two molars. Forming 

 the bridge of the nose are the two nasal bones, 

 while the lachrymal, or tear bones, lie between 

 the eye sockets and the nose. Finally, there 

 are two turbinate, or spongy, bones, which 

 form the outer wall of the nostrils. Of all 

 these bones only the lower jaw is movable. 

 See SKELETON; also HEAD, for illustration of 

 the bones named above. 



FAC' TORINO, the process of separating a 

 number into the quantities which, when multi- 

 plied together, will produce it. The integral 

 numbers which, multiplied together, produce 

 that number, are called its factors. Every 

 number is the product of itself and 1, and so 

 has itself and 1 as factors; for example, 6X1 

 =6; 19X1=19. 



6X7 = 42 

 3X6 = 18 

 4X9X2 = 72 



6 and 7 are factors of 42; 3 and 6 are factors 

 of 18; 4, 9 and 2 are factors of 72. Each of 



