Middletown transcript., 1881-04-29
Large Mouths Are Fashionable.

The fashion papers, which are
authority on the styles, claim that ladies
with large mouths are all the fashion
now, and that those whose mouths
are small and rosebut-like, are all out
of style. 1t is singular the freaks that
are taken by fashion. Years ago a red
headed girl, with mouth like slice
cut out of muskmellOn, would have
been laughed at, and now such a girl is
worth going miles to see. 1t is easier
to color the hair red, and be in fashion,
than it is to enlarge the mouth, though
a mouth that has any give to it can be
helped by the constant application of a
glOve-stretcher during the day, and by
holding the cover of a tin backing box
while sleeping. What in the world the
leaders of fashion wanted to declare
large mouths the style for, the heavens
only can tell. Take pretty face and
mortice about a third of it for mouth,
and it seems to us as though it is a
great waste of raw material. There is
no use that large mouth can be put to
that a small mouth would not do better,
unless it is used for pigiOn-hOle to file
away old sets of false teeth. They
can't, certainly, be any better for kiss
sing. You all remember the travelling
man who attended the church fair at
Kalamazoo, where one of the sisters
would give kiss for ten cents. He
went up and paid his ten cents, and was
about to kiss her when he noticed that
her mouth was one of those large, open
face, cylinder escapements, to be con-
tinued, mouths. 1t commenced at the
chin and went about four chains and
three links in northwesterly direction,
then around by her ear, across under
the nose and back by the other ear to
the place of beginning, and containing
twelve acres, more OF less. The travel
ing man said he was only a poor
orphan, and had a family to support,
and if he never came out alive it would
be great hardship upon those depen-
dent upon him for support, and he
asked her as special favor that she
take her hand and take a reef in one
side of the mouth so it would be
smaller. She consented, and puckered
in handful of what would have been
cheek, had it not been mouth. He
looked at her again and found that the
mouth had become very One-sided
affair, and he said he had just one more
favor to ask. He was not man that
was counted hard to please when he
was home in Chicago, but he would
always feel as though he had got his
worth, and go away with
pleasanter recollections of Kalamazoo.
if she would kindly take her other
hand and draw the other side of her
mouth together, and he would be con-
tent to take his ten cents worth out of
what was left unemployed. This was
too much, and she gave him a terrible
look, and returned him his ten cents,
saying: do you think, sir, because
you are a Chicago drummer, that for
ten cents you can take kiss right out
of the best part of it. Go! Get thee
to a nunnery," and. he went and bought
a lemonade with the money. We would
not advise any lady whose mouth is
small to worry about this new fashion,
and try to enlarge the one nature has
given her. Large mouths will have
their run in a few brief months and
will be much sought after by the fol-
lowers of fashion, but in a short time
the little ones that pout, and look
cunning will come to the front, and the
arge ones will be for rent. The best
kind of a mouth to have is middling- ,
sized one, that has dimple by its sides,
which is always in style.-Peck's Sm. $