The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1873-10-03
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A Struggle For a Mustache.

lhis s Tor boys, OF course. VINO eve
heard Of girls being interested in mus
tachel What can they know Of ths
strange longing which goes out from thu
soul ef every youngster Of dozen year
some times younger - which get
stronger every year, as he goes into hi
teens, and like SchilleTs whirlpool. never
will rest till his upper lip is mustached
What can they know Of itl Nothing
That's why / don't think it worth while
for them to read this sketch. They
couldn't Il say it respectfully and with.
out the slightest attempt at disparage
ment, not the slightest they could not
. appreciate the situation; but boys can.
Every boy knows, or shortly will, just
how il is himself For mustaches are
inevitable, and will come either with or
without help-usually with. /, there
fore, dedicate this bit of experience 10
the shavers, little and great. They'll
read il, l fesl confident, every one; and
that they may to some extent profit by
it, is the earnest wish Of one Of their
number.
Ii was January, the frst month of the
year, not great many years ago. The
winter school was keeping. George
Redway was the master that winter
Harry Smith, Tom Edwards and / 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 par
tally fronted the rest, and was long
enough for three of us-a favorite seat
and one greatly sought after in the gen
eral scramble, on Monday morning of
the first day." remember that Tom
and went down to the school house a
little after seven that morning, in order
to make sure of it by getting our books
under the bench before the McIntire
boys got there.
The "back seat A" was full of "great
boys" Of eighteen and twenty. They
nearly all had mustaches or attempts at
the same. And some of them even had
whiskers. OF course their example and
success in that particular was stimulating
to US smaller boys. Still We didn't take
our fever (mustache fever) from them.
1t came from sudden exposure in the
form Of young fellow from Portland,
named Fred Barry, who came up the
second week, Anything like the brown
beauty, the trimness, and the heroic ef-
feet Of Freds mustache can scarcely be
conceived Of. The "great boys" were
goats beside him. And as for 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
admirers.
Harry, Tom and l. from the long
seat, eyed him (the mustache part, and
that was the only part about him worth
noticing)-eyed him admiringly. Day
by day We watched and sighed, nay
pined-I really think we pined-under
the unapprOachable glory of that manly
mustache. UnapprOachable; for as yet
our faces were rs smooth as our dinner
boxes. As l said first. don't expect
any but boys TO sympathise with US in
this mood. And l know the most Of
boys will but laugh when state that for
the first fortnight after Fred's arrival,
Tom and lay awake at night to discuss
il. and devise means for putting our own
upper lips in a similar condition. As
preliminary step we had already procured
an old razor and cake Of soap, and
were proceeding toward the object in
view by scraping in the usual way, when
one forenoon at recess. Harry. whose fe-
ger ran higher sven than ours, showed
us = slip from late newspaper Ia religi.
Gus nsyspaper, tOo,) which made every |
thing easy in moment.
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