Smyrna times., 1882-07-26
A Barberous Deed.

There is one thing young man who
is just beginning to go into society, or
Just getting solid with his girl, should ;
be careful about, and that is shaving
off his moustache. There have been
more marriages broken off by this
habit of changing the appearance by
shaving than by any one thing. A
young man raises Il moustache the first
time, and he looks better than he ever
did before or ever will again, and the
| girl becomes mashed on him just as he
is then. She has perhaps never seen
him before the hair grew on his lip, and
he is photographed in her mind with
the mOustache on, and with it off, if he
comes upon her suddenly, she receives
a shock. the effects of which may not
be eradic;lted from her system for
years, and it is dangerous. This is
serious matter, and any young man
whose mouth and lips are not pretty in
their natural state, should hesitate be- |
fore springing them unadOrned upon
the object of his affections. There was
a case recently which has thrown two !
souls from bliss to despair, and we
mention this as a warning to boys. \
young fellow about nineteen met and
loved young woman, but on the west
side of the city. 1t was no puppy love,
, but clear case of old chronic love,
; where all the vital organs were invOlv-
: ed. He had moustache that was
beautiful in its intensity, and which
! tickled. They were in the habit of
Q meeting downtown in the forenoon, of
f, casually meeting in the afternoon when
: she was shopping, and every evening
4 h. visited her with the regularity of a
p doctor to a wealthy patient. From
n seven in the evening until midnight
t they would sit on the sofa and COM
mune with nature, until they were so
# tired he would wait an hour for q
d street-car TO ride four blocks, rather
It than walk
Is One evening in the leafy month of
1t June, Il cold sore" appeared on his lip,
e and with rashness that seemed born
of desperation, he decided to have his
lie moustache cut Off He remembered
N that the evening before, when he was
he kissing his intended, the moustache
le tickled her nose and she said some
h thing, as she sneezed, about that hOrrid
"a mOustache, and this had much to do
I'd with his determination to have his
is moustache removed AS he got out OF
the barber's chair and looked at him
Dn self in the glass, he felt that he would
Sc give worlds if the mOustache was back
he on his lin. He had never realized be-
le- fore what hideOus apron lip he had
Nv and it had never occurred to him that
or his teeth looked so much like old-fash
to iOned tOmbstOnes in a graveyard, col
| Ored by the ravages of time. Hi
a recollection of his mouth was that i
er. had been small two for quartz
an mouth, hut when he saw it now, lik
he the hole where a slice had been cut on
l of green cantelOpe, his heart sanl
as, within him, and he covered up par
he of it with one hand. During the da
he walked on the back streets and trie
OF to laugh pleasantly; but when com
er- paniOn told him that he could draw
ful that mouth together with alum so tina
lalt his teeth would not get slnburnt, h
1ge could only think of what his girl woul
| say when she saw it. His first ide
res was to go off somewhere for a mont
my and let bis moustache grow out agail
FOL and claim that he was called suddenl
)r a away on business, but he knew tn;
: by he would have to go and hid the gi
! to goodbye before he went, so he resolve
'tel, to brave the worst and stay and liz
just down the affair.
lrty That evening he went with a heay
ions heart to see his girl. The twilight W
JeOt, just fading away and the moon hi
appeared when he was ushered in
the parlOr. At first he put his hal
over it, and with some words of mer
mept he prepared her for the orde
yed- and then took off his hand. She sto
our like one stricken with a st uffed eli
Dyed the cold chills running up the ba
One seam of her dress, and her eyes sci
ing out forty degrees below x
the glances. She clung to a chair for 81
ance port, and he rushed forward to cal
1ula- her in his arms, when with hercule
lber- effort she hraced up and mOtioned h
'eans back.
1000 "NOt another step," said she witt
The gasp, like Barrett playing Rieheli
rllish "Approach me at your peril"
onse- He turned pale and stood like {
asphyxiated, and said: "What,
Cas- one kiss of welcome?n
ic, it "Not one," said the suffering girl
,rt of she swallowed her gum to stay
stomach; mot q kiss. All between
sarth- is at an end. Go hence! Let me tn
ARGUS of you as knew you before the she
venth shearing festival, and not as you
arded pear now, changed beyond recognit
eenth L have known you before with y
ept it moustache ON to your lip, Now |
amer your mouth in all Its hldeous deform
red it and would as quick think of kis'
led in the hole in the wagon of a circus i
,struc- press these lips to that three-corn'
Q. cash in your face until you have a
D per curtain painted over it, to work
lins of string. Cop and she staggered OF
re was the room, while he fell out of the
which door and went to a heerplaoe aud
IS and up,
mt the He is now using hair renewer,
so lost. will never be himself again until
very hirsute ivy grows over the moss G.
vas at ed teeth, and the cave or gloom Is
Martin from sight by its accustomed
eelaFed tapestry curtains, looped up at