New-York tribune., 1906-09-06
THE WEARING OF THE wHIsKER.
"a bars-raced retorrD


:. tSsr sOD.spg.TsIy The Laay has been ,nto5msa
nan Win s5 s.s5 ,bs 1nsS S aGma'on sa t9I me
revival OF the dstsstaoe mu.tache is Imminent IF Il
itop Al ths nu.acSs whsksTs have not been worn Tor
DOr.ayish il reintrOduesd'I =
Not for myself the horror when 1 hear
or this insensate freak OF mobile Fashion:
And still propose to cut the frequent cash on
Side trimmings or rude mustachiO.
Woman (whose tastes never had the tongue
Rightly 20 chant, nor Yet the wit 10 follow
The facial growths OF some unshorn Apollo.
Trained like the anpeopsis,
That happy haunt OF wOolly bears and wopsss.-
Woman. l say her paradise may seek
on downy lips: she may elect to risk her
Complexion up against q hairy cheek.
Wipng its bloom away with tufts Of whisker:
And. should she incline.
Then that is her affair. and none OF mine
Ny trouble is that men whom I admire
Whose open countenances. clean as whistles
Suggest the late Sir Joshuas angel choir.
And thus could never be
The same. ah! never more the same to me.
If Asquith. say. We're shared in Fashions net.
And lcoersely sReakingl chucked the legal type up.
And 10 appease the ardent suffragette.
/ could not well be mute.
And lightly bear 10 see him so hirsute
I think the spectacle would drive me mad
Should winstons eherub cheeks be fanked with
Or BirreIl to MS mutton outlets add
The kind that might recall
Wistaria hanging from cottage wall
or what II Morley hedged his lips with hun
To captivate some Oriental peri,
Or Edward Grey. exchanging smooth for rough.
Developed droopers like my Lord Dundreary.
And in the dubious dark
Confused himself with Whiskerandos Clarke
But worst. il HaIdane thairess heretofore)
Assisting William 10 review his batteries.
And keen 10 compliment that Lord Of War
BY. imitation most sincere OF batteries.
Should wear, for Englsnd's sake.
Mustaches ~ the best imperial make
Punch.
4 that Is freak or nature s the Asiatio
star tree. II grows sixty 10 eighty feet tall. and
for height OF about forty feet the trunk Is wholly
bare From that point there spring a number OF
tangled limbs. which shoot out clusters OF long
pointed leaves. and these. grouped together emit
at night phosphorescent Hight
A Heavy BaR-Keeper (to Commercial Gentle
man. who has rented a moor)-A doot well ha' to
Commercial Gentleman-'Ow's that? Ave we run
Keeper-Ns. ma. But that's the las, q Yer dogsi
Punch
There is N Connaught. Ireland a remarkable Gu
riosty which gives example of Official over
sight. When the great famine o. lsi7 was upon the
land the government OF the day conceived the idea
OF opening a line of navigation from Galway to
Bslina. oy way Of Lough co-rtb and LOugh Mask.
so as 70 avoid the dangers OF the western coast
From Cong canal actually mad" % I@ugh
Mask al part Of the general scheme Tie work
gave a great deal Of employment and sO TAR the
canal served it's purpose. Rut when II was COM
pleted u found the canal would not hold
water. The fact that the rock OF the district Is
OF a very porous character had been overlooked.
No Birch Rods NoN.1,se TT, road 70 knOwedse.
swift and too easy It's regular railroad
= railroad with fewer switches than are necessary
--fhhadsphia Ledger.