The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-03
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| fed by a Circumstance.
| From the Chicago Tribune.
| IF you don't mind my mentioning it,
remarked the cheerful passenger who was
holding on to strap, as he leaned down
| to speak to young man seated near the
| car stove, you have a very remarkable
| mustache."
| ''Hey What's that?" growled the young
man, looking up at him sidewise
| Il say you have a remarkable mus
tache.
| Just let 1t alone, will you?'
| Yes, Ill let it alone. I'm not barber,
you know. Still. there can't be any harm
in telling a man. when he's got a mus
tache like yours, that it's something
worth looking at. You'll pardon me for
| calling your attention to the fact that it
grows straight out from your lip for
about an inch, at right angle, and then
most of the hairs turn directly up, while
! the others turn directly down. That
| shows it's natural. 1t couldn't be waxed
50 as to stand out that way. It's like the
| long arm of the letter +. A man couldn't
| train it in that shape in a million years.
| | don't suppose, now, you ever took two
looking glasses and stood SO as to get a
| side view of that mustache, did you?"
.'None of your business" responded the
young man. TN thank you to attend TO
your own affairs If YOU have any, and
| let mine alone"
"Just so" pacidly replied the other.
| 'Some people like to have their peculiari-
| ties pointed out to them and some don't
| It's all in the way You look at it. You are
| not asking my advice. of course. but if I
| were in your place / should trim that
| thicket, that chaDarral, that cheval-de-
frise as we would say in French, close to
the lip. and then it wouldn't attract gem
eral attention. Most men. l dare say.
| look better with a mustache but that S
| probably because it hides their mouths. In
your case, now. it doesn't hide the mouth
| at all. 1t runs right away from it. It's
| out Of the question to-
"Say. if you don't want to get your
head punched. you shut up! You've got
more blamed gall than any man / ever
saw. Mind your own business"
| Certainly, certainly. That's all the
| thanks a man ever gets for trying to be
an altruist in his own way. l remember
| I once called fellows attention to a wig
| he was wearing. / told him it was all
right. considered a wig. but he needn' t
| think it fooled anybody. 1t was so palpa-
| bly, a wig that it gave itself away as soon
as you looked at it. I could see that he
thought it was a perfect limitation of the
| natural hair, but it wasn't and somebody
ought to tell him it wasn't. That was the
| position ] took. He got angry. just as
| you're doing, but l didn't mind that. I'm
always getting people down on me when
| I'm trying to do them a favor, just in
that way. and suppose / always will be.
| I don't let it bother me as much as | used
| to. Still, young man, / would advise you
not to go to punching heads
"Why not. sir?' demanded the owner of
| the brs.ling mustache, belligerently.
what would you do?"
Nothing. But some of these women
who are standing up might slip into your
seat
| Then the man who was trying to bene-
| fit his fellow-men Strengthened up, grasp
| ed the straps still more firmly, and dur
| ing the remainder of the ride said moth
ing, and merely looked pleasantly at the
young man, or rather through him. with
out seeing him.