Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-12-07

ne muet8cne mas Deen an OOIect
much solicited. The young man upon
whose upper lip 9 constant shadow
hangs Is the one who finds It most nee
essaTy 10 stroke il. It must be nursed
and coaxed. Manhood has advanced
Ito sign, and the boys thoughts are al
ways on II With how much envy he
looks on the next young man whose up-
per lips crop Is . years growth! Its
half-inch long fillaments he endeavors
10 twist TO point. He wakes it to
make it lie down. The young man has
done this in every age and cline where
hair was not despised. Yet the mus
tache has been as much preached at as
any sin man can commit Englishmen
of . century or SO ago looked on it,
that is the niustache solns-as French
frivolty. The. courtly Frenchman of
Louis XIV. trained this sppendage Of
his face to unnatural length. Until re-
Gently the English prejudice still show
ed itself in regulations which prevented
its display in the army and among the
clergy. Just now, and among Ameri-
cans, the mustache is the favorite form
of hair upon the face. In its place it
sets of the face. and doctors declare it
is Of great use in straining the ai which
goes into the lungs. Neither dust nor
ordinary smoke win 60 through it.
When cultivated to excess il is valua-
BILE as coffee strainer. The man who,
when he takes q spoonful of soup, lifts
his mustache with his left hand, and
carefully depositing the side Of the
spoon on the edge Of the cavern dis
played beneath, tits it over until the
contents are split, is not q graceful OBJ
ject al dinner.
Englishmen and Irishmen. to some
extent, affect side whiskers. Anglo
maniac Americans do the same. Josh
Billings, Q close observer of human ma
ture, says that nine-tenths of the men
who wear side whiskers are members of
some church. Side whiskers become
some faces, but even Oscar Wilde
would not defend q red face framed in
pale gold whiskers as an object of beau
ty. There are two varieties of this
species. One is the rather elegant af-
fair, which is long and slightly scanty
of hair; the other variety is shorter,
bushy, and has curl forward. This is
worn by cads.
The imperial was first cultivated in
France. When it is full and has an ele.
CANT curl. it may be graceful. and is al
ways rather becoming.
The goatee-popularly supposed to
be named for the odoriferons animal
which wears it-has q smack of humol
in it. 1t gives one the impression that
its owner is jester, or at least man
full of quaint conceits. On full face
otherwise shaven, it sometimes has 9
comical air.
Women and children love full beard
They delight to run their fingers through
its curving masses, and women know
how easily q man is soothed by that sor'
of caress. When Vivian pursued Mer
lin, intent upon stealing from him th,
charm of the woven PAGES in the depth
Of the forest, she wooed him to notic'
her by casting herself down at his fee
as he sat with eyes uplifted under al
oak, and combed his beard with he
fingers and made veil of it, in whicl
she hid her 1.-THE form. So she lulle'
the old man until he forgot his wisdom
and told her the secret. And then tn
vixen wove the charm to his destruC
ton.
BARRIERS are product of civilization
Their importance has declined. The
are no longer the surgeon and DENTS
of the village, but still maintain thei
| character as news circulars. Barber
cut a larger figure in Oriental literatur
and that of Southern Europe than the
do in the tales and poems of hardie
climates. 1t seems strange that the bal
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society among the people who do NJ
shave as a rule. but the BARRIERS of Nj
hammedan countries are given to th
comb rather than the razor. 1t is Mo
lem luxury to sit in a cool stall whi
an active barber laves, combs and pc
fumes the beard, accompanying b
work with recitals of stories of geni
and afrits and beautiful women, or s.
lections from the poets.-Cincinnd
Enquirer.