Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-07
Died I'm the Faith.

Washington Correspondence New York Tribune
Seven or eight democrats were discussing
the defeat of their party and their own per-
sonal defeat in one of the hotel Hobbies the
other night. As each point was talked over,
they always wound up by swearing at the
tariff as the one and only cause of party and
personal defeat. Finally member from New
York said:
I'VE stuck by Cleveland; think he ought to
do with us as old man Saunders of Maine, did
with his seven wives"
How was that?" asked one of the proup.
"When the first died" resumed the men,
Der from New York, ''old man Saunders, put
up little white-washed plank with her name:
SARAH ADAMS,
WIFE OF GAMALIEL SAUNDERS
in black letters. No. was treated to the
same white board with her name and Wife of
Gamaliel Saunders in black letters. No. 8, No.
4, No. 5, No. were all laid in row by No. l
and No. 2, and each grave was headed by the
slab with staring black letters. Finally, No. Z.
joined her six predecessors below ground and
the old man, who was going to leave town and
go west with his sons, put on his seventh
wife's headstone,
ELvIRA ANN,
WIFE OF GAMALIEL SAUNDERS,
and at the top he placed hand pointing to the
row OF six tombstones and indicating the in
scription:
THESE ALL DIED IN THE FAITH.
"Its nothing but fair that Grover Cleveland
should do the same by us. We are buried in a
row and he should erect a suitable monument
with the hand pointing to us and saying:
These all died in the true tariff faith
The Reign of the Mustache.
From the Hair Dresser
About ten years ago a hairless. saturnine, and
| clever man In the Carlton club, in London an
nounced that wearing mustaches was bad form.
The statement was made with great solemnity
In the course of speech which the club man
delivered at banquet where Labouchere
CHANGED to be guest. A short time after this
the editor made the mustache series of caus-
tic observations in his paper, and announced
solemnly that the mustache would have to 60
as 1t was no longer in good form. Whether
the discussion meant anything or not is a prob
lem, but it caught the fancy Of mankind with
grip compared to which the everlasting aues-
ton OF whether marriage is failure or not
sinks out of sight.
So much is said about the correctness of ap-
pearlng In society circles without a mustache
that the statement readily gained credit that
wearing mustaches had to be dropped out of
fashionable life in England. A thorough
paced investigation of the English capital
proved the falsity of all this London men
have sacrificed the short eide whiskers that
$500
the mustache with tenacity that nothing can
cut. The abiding horror of mans life that
he will be mistaken for a waiter at an evening
party is somewhat relieved by the fact that
walters are not allowed to wear mustaches and
gentlemen are. The reason that short-clipped
side whiskers went was because it was essen
tally Hibernian. Such facial adornments
were spoken of as Galways, and this was too
much for the British mind
As far as this country is concerned the inn
preston seems to be that if a man can raise a
mnstache no power on earth can persuade him
to shave it off. If a man cannot have the sort
of a mustache he wants he usually takes the
sort that comes to him by right of nature. A
good deal of coercion is used on the quiet with
refractory mustaches, but they are no longer
curled, put up in papers over night, creased,
waxed or otherwise abused.
The era of simplicity has affected the mus
tache as well as the rest of mans general make
up. No man who pretends to be at all in the
swim wears the flowing side whiskers to which
Dundreary gave his name, and boards which
were popularized by the Prince of Wales few
years ago have gone out of fashion. No
wonder, for the prince himself has abandoned
them, and he now wears his beard pointed and
clipped close to the face. Boulanger has set
the fashion for Europe in this respect, and the
crown prince of Great Britain is more or less of
an imitator of the French unstart