The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-04-11
4 STRUGGLE FOR A NOUS
TACHE.
BY C. A. STEPHENS.

"
This is for boys, of course Who ever
heard of girls being Interested in nous
taches! What can they know of that
strange longing which goes out from the
soul of every youngster of dozen
sometimes younger-which gets stronger
and stronger every year, as he goes
pool, never will rest until his upper lip
is moustached ?-What can they know
of it? Nothing. That's why [ DOM
think its worth while for them to read
this sketch. -They couldn't e say it re-
spectfully, and without the slightest at
tempt at Gisparagement, not the slight
est)-they couldn't appreciate the situa-
sion; but boys can. Every boy knows,
or shortly will, just how it is himself -
For mopstaches are inevitable. and will
come either with or without help-usual-
ly with. therefore dedicate this bit of
experience, sad personal experience, to
the shavers. little and great. They'll
read it, [ feel confident, every one and
that they may to some extent profit by
it, is the earnest wish of one of their
number
It was in January, the first month of
year not great many years ago. The
winter school was keeping -GeorgeRed-
way was the master that winter. Harry
Smith, Tom Edwards and I, had the
'long seat together. The long seat
was the one at the end of the room, at
right angles with the other seats. 1t
partially fronted the rest, and was long
enough for three of us-a favorite seat.
and one greatly sought after in the gener-
al scramble, on Monday morning of the
s'frst day." remember that Tom and
went down to the shoole house a little
after seventhat morning,in order to make
sure of it by getting our books under the
bench before the McIntire boys got
there.
The back seat was full of "great boys"
of eighteen and twenty. They nearly all
had moustaches or attempts at the same:
and some of them even had whiskers.
Of course their example and good sue
cess In this particular was stimulating to
us smaller boys. Still we didn't take our
fever (mustache fever) from them. It
came from sudden exposure in the form
of a young fellow from Portland, named
Fred. Barry, who came up the second
week OF our school on a visit at his grand
fathers, who lived in the neighborhood.
BY way of passing time, nothing more |
guess he attended school for several
weeks. Anything like the brown beauty.
the trimness, and the heroic effect of
Fred's mustache can scarcely be con-
ceiyed of. The great girls it was
amazing to see how they kept wearing
their best dresses every day, and how
cold they grew toward their old admir-
ers
Harry. Tom and I, from the long seat.
eyed him 1.-THE moustache part, and that
was the only part of him worth noticing)
eyed him admiringly. Day by day we
watched and sighed. nay, pined-I really
think we pined-under the unapproacba-
BILE glory of that manly moustache. Tn
opproachable for as yet our faces were
as smooth as our dinner boxes. As J
said at first, | don't expect any, save BOYS,
to sympathze with US in this mood. And
know the most of folks will but laugh
when | state that for the first fortnight
after Fred's. arrival, Tom and actually
lay awake nights to discuss il, and devise
means for putting our own upper fps in
q similar condition. As a preliminary
step, we had already procured an old
razor and cake of soap !; and we're pro-
ceeding toward the object In view by
scraping in the usual way, when one
forenoon at recess. Harry, whose fever
ran higher even than ours, showed us
slip cut from late newspaper Ca relig-
ious paper, too) which made everything
easy In moment.
That slip was this:
MUsTAcHES MUsTAcHEsl?
THE Grecian Compound Will force
q growth of hair on the smoothest face
with few applications, This is no hum
bug. Price only $ per package.
Address with the money!
PROF. BoUFFET,
So Nassau ST., New York"
Was there ever such an opening p
We read it over and over in school, hold
ing it behind our books.
DO you suppose it really is so p"
whispered Tom.
''This is no humbug," read Harry,
pointing t. the slip.
On the Whole it looked too straight.
forward and honest, and was too much
to our liking to be seriously doubted.
Lets send on and try it anyway, -
said Harry. as we sat eating our dinners
&C our seats and talking the matter
over.