The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-07-05
Large Mouths Fashionable.
TPeck's SUM-

The fashion papers, which are authority on
all the styles, claim that ladies with large
mouths are all the style now, and those whose
mouths are small and r~osebud-like are all out
of style. It is singular the freaks taken by
fashion. Years ago, a red heaGed girl, with
a mouth like a slice cut out of muskmelon,
would have been laughed at, but now such a
gill 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
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 can only
tell. Take a pretty face and mortice about a
third of it for a mouth, and it seems to us as
though it is a great waste of the raw material.
There is no use that a large mouth can be
put to that a small mouth would not do bet.
ter, unless it is used as a pigeon-hole to file
away old sets of false teet =. They can't
certainly, be for kissing. You all re-
member the travelling man who attended
the church fair at Kalamazoo. where one of
the sisters would give a kiss Tor ten ceuts.
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-faced CYL
lnder escapements, to be continued mouths.
1t commenced at the chin and went about
four chains and three links in a northwesterly
direction, then around by the ear to the place
of beginning, and containing twelve acres
more or less. The travelling man said he was
only a poor orphan, and had a family to sup
port, and if he never came out alive it would
be a great hardship upon those depending
upon him for support, and he asked her as a
special favor that she take her hand and take
a reef in one side Of her mouth so it would
be smaller. She consented and puckered in
a handful of what would have been cheek
had it not been mouth. He looked at her
and found that her mouth had become a
very one-sided affair, and he said he had just
Que more favor to ask. He was not a man
that was counted hard to suit when he
was at home in Chicago, but he
would always feel as though he had got his
moneys worth and 60 away with pleasenter
recollections OF Kalamazoo if she would
kindly take her other hand and draw the
other sid of her mouth together, and he
would be content to take his ten cents worth
out of what was lst 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 a
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
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 followers of fashion, but
in a short time the little, ones that pout and
look cunning will come to the front and the
large ones will he for ront. The best kind
of a mouth to have is a middling size one
that has a dimple by its sides, which is always
in stvle.