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

This is for boys, of course. Who eve
heard Of girls being interested in a mus
tache! What can they know Of tina
strange longing which goes out from tn,
soul ef every young,ter Of dozen year
some times younger - which get
stronger every year, a he goes into hi
teens, and like Schiller's whirlpool, neve
will rest till his upper lip is mustached
What can they know of it? Nothing
That's why ] don't think it worth whil'
for them TO read this sketch. They
couldn't | say it respectfully and with
out the slightest attempt at disparage
ment, not the slightest they could moi
appreciate the situation; but boys can.
Every boy knows, or shortly will, just
how it is himself For mustaches are
inevitable, and will come either with OF
without hclp-usually with. |. there
f,re, dedicate this bit Of experience ID
the shavers, little and great. They'll
read it, teal confident, every one; and
that they may to some extent profit 10y
IT, is the earnest wish of one of their
number.
1t was January, the first month of the
year, not a great many years ago. The
winter school was keeping. George
Redway was the master that winter.
Harry Smith, Tom Edward. 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. II par
TALLY fronted the rest, and was long
enough for three of us-a favoritc 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
10 make sure of it by getting our books
under the bench before the Mclntire
boys got there.
The " back seat was full of "great
boys Of eighteen and twenty. They
nearly all had mustaches OF attempts at
the same. And some of them even had
whi-kers. OF course their example and
success in that particular was stimulating
to IL smaller boys. Still We didn't take
our fever (mustachc 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 Fred's mustache can scarcely be
conceived of. The great boys" were
goats beside him. Aud rs 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 |, 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 nav
pined-l really think We pined-under
the unaPproachable glory of that manly
mustache. unapproachable; for as yet
our faces were rs smooth rs our dinner
boxes. As said first, | don't expect
any but boys 10 sympathize with US in
this mood Aud | 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 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
MS = slip from late newspaper Ia religi-
Gus newspaper, too which made every
thing easy in moment
That silly vas this;--
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