The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-27
THEY BAR MUSTACHtS
Club in st. Louis Opposed to Hair
on Mans Face.
A RELIC OF BARBARISM
j. E. Bradley, st. Louis Travelling Man
and Secretary of the Club, Tells
of It's Organization and
Purposes.

Anaconda has been given the unde-
served honor of being the original home
of the No Mustache club. Publications
have gone out from this city that this
is the habitat and stronghold of those
who do not adorn their upper lips with
growth of hair.
Anaconda has no just claim to that
honor, said J. E. Bradley, a ST Louis
commercial traveller, who is now in the
city visiting Rod Williams. yesterday
The only original No Mustache club
was formed last year in st. Louis and
now has an active membership of Ga
1t might be called the No Beard club
because its members are prohibited alb
soiutely from wearing any hair upon
their faces Coates. imperials, Lord
Dundreary's, weeping willows, lace cur
talns, Galway sluggers, Vandykes, chest
protectors, center parted, mutton chops
and all the other various denominations
of boards are prohibited as rigidlyA as
soup stainers, military, awl-pointed,
kittenish, John Drew or shoe brush
muStaches.
a mere fad or our part, but if you do
you are mistaken. First of all, there
is patriotic purpose in our doing away
With mustaches. Did you ever read
Sponsors State of Ireland?' No? Well
you will find in his works this passage:
This was the ancient manner of
SpaynyardeS 10 cutt of all
thyre beardes close. save only they're
muschachoes, which they wear long
You will see from this that the mus
tache is clearly of Spanish origin. A
number of us have always been more
or less opposed to the annoying things
and have simply worn them for the
pleasure they gave our lady friends,
who somehow always admire a mus
tache. perhaps believing in the old
and false adage that a kiss without
mustache lis like an egg without salt
we VINO personally did not like mus
taehes had been weak enough to wear
them ITO prevent our female acquaint-
ances from thinking about saltless eggs
But when the war came on and anti
Spanish ideas We're in the air we de-
cided that the mustache, being a Span
ish institution, must go. Hence we or
ganized the club and banished it.
Some of our members had linger-
ing fondnesS for hair of some sort on
the faces and took to experimenting
With Nandykes, neck warmers and
boards of various sorts until they look
ed like band of gorillas just captured
that, so We amended the rules of the
club and put the ban on hair of Ill
kinds. Now We are glad we did.
'Mustaches are unnatural things
anyhow. They are as uncivilized a Gre
alton as the long finger nails of the Chi
nese. That our early ancestors wore
them not is shown by the, fact that no
monkeys wear mustaclies, save tribe
of degenerates known as the ceropt-
hecus cephus of western Africa. some
times called the mustache monkeys.
The very name of the thing shows it to
be purely and entirely Spanish, for it
has been called mustache, moustache.
mustacho, mostacho, muschacho and
mitchato. 1t is a thing NOT to be toler-
ated in polite society, a barbarism be-
longing to those regions where men get
away from refining influences and let
themselves go.
I'm England smooth shaven faces
We're the mark of gentility until the
conquest of India. when the young Eng
lishmen who went there foolishly fol-
lowed the example of the rajahs and
wore long, flowing lip hair. Thackery
speaks of it in his Vanity Fair when
he tells of returning Englishmen who
| had served in India as follows:
The gallant young Indian handles
at home on acknowledgements handles
| these. chained and mustached.' Chains,
| jewelry and mustaches-do they not so
well together as evidences of a lower
| form of civilization?
| Our club in SIT. Louis is in a flourish
| ing condition and at our monthly meet
| ings we have a steadily increasing
number of applications for member
| ship. ] am secretary of the club. We
| are now considering the erection of a
| club house with modern barber shop
| in the basement-the pole barred /
| am trying to persuade Mr.. Williams to
become a nonresident member but he
| is too fond of his mustache to be con