Show ARE fAU MUSTACHES ORNAMENTS A anne woman writer Dk curp an n an hsi important part of or alan why do young men take such pride in their it is I 1 suppose because they think at i mustache is arrit ornamental in Is it why do men have clean shaven lips when they could coul a grow mustaches ta clies and why do men wear half a dozen straggling hairs when they ought to have them shaved off why will men con continue tinne to spend hours every day in training the hair on their upper lip li P when it make them look any tiny more band handsome sonie when it is annoying to their sweethearts by scratching their cheeks when it prevents a cigar being r moio more than half through and arid when it shows a horrid propensity for getting mixed up with the food I 1 dont think mustaches are orn ornamental the ideal mustache lias yet to be invented it must not draggle drag glo nor be used as a shield to hide ones one s 61 bad tee teeth th nor be fierce and oh it must not bo be waxed or leaded what do men aay say of women who use grease when you yon are benj enjoying a spoon dont you think it takes all the romance out of the thing by havinga a nasty piece of hair dge its way against your lips and isn slit t it exasperating when your lover leads his mustache and arid never tells you you go home with your face like a metropolitan extension map and feel very uncomfortable when father and mother say pay there have been a lot of smuts about for your face has got quite dirty no mustaches are neither useful nor ornamental were I 1 a man and capable of growing a most luxuriant mustache I 1 would cut it off A clean shaven man mail looks much the nicest girls like a beardless face they are content to know that whiskers and all the rest could bo be there if they were wanted yon see a man mail with a mustache is generally a bit of a fop and girls dont like fops if a man keep it trimmed it gets straggling and lid ragged if he lie does keep it trimmed then he lie appears conceited he ile is eternally twisting it this way giving it a curl that way stroking it and arid patting it until lie loses all character for manliness now a clean shaven man seems to bo dignified wornee love dignity why is it they are always so fond of curates ccrates especially high church and actors simply because they shave women want in men a smooth clear cut face not with a great bunch of hair stuck out under the nose whoever heard beard of the greeks having mustaches whoever saw a statue of a 1 greek god with a mustache unless lie were an all old god and wore ore a beard as well mustaches ca are not ornamental because they rarely suit the face because they area aro a protuberance and hide the outline of the mouth and because with a mustache a man is frightened to laugh as it disarranges disarranged dis arranges it only a few women caro care for them men think all comendo wo women mendo do that is a mistake A F fair air critic in london tit bits 9 |