Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-15
Special Correspondence Of The star.

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
NEW YORK, October IA, 1911.
"HE mustache has returned. The
smooth-faced man must raise
one or go to the Stag heap.
This is the edict of the bar
bers, the fashionable and af-
fluent BARRIERS Of Manhattan. that is,
who go to Europe every year to paralyze
their peasant relatives by exhibitions of
American prodigality and splendor. and
incidentally. to fetch back the European
capillary vogues. The richest of the New
York barber shop (or should it be studioD
proprietors are foreigners; almost with
out exception the club BARRIERS are the
same: and these are the tonsorial tyrants
who make the pronunciamentos as to
what Is and what isn't in masculine hir-
suite, head and facial.
They flocked back early this season
with the news that since the jeunesse
doree of Britain had taken up the mus
tache again with enthusiasm and ear
nestness, the gilded youth on this side
must do likewise. and the gilded youth on
this side can't. of course. do any little old
thing that is not promptly initiated by
the non-gi,ded youth.
So that the mustache is back. It first
draped eye when the autumn parading
began on 18th avenue. The just-returned
continent -trotters brought their mus
taches back with them ready made;
grown during their lollful travels on the
yon side of the sea, that is.
For many years Tor ever since Illus
traitors of the Gibson type began to draw
mustacheless young men exclusively
those 9TH avenue paraders have been
smooth-faced chappies of all ages. Now
nine out OF ten of them are there with
the upper lip adornment, If you are Will
ing to grant that II Is or ever can be an
adornment. The mustache thing quickly
spread from 9Th avenue to Broadway,
and when Broadway takes thing up
the whole town promptly fails for It,
Now you'll find nearly all of your male
riding mates l. and subway trains
with smudgy looking upper lips. They
are blocking out mustacheS Tor them
selves. Men who'ye never worn any
hair whatever upon their cOuntenances
going in for the top-lip switch with
apparently perfect confidence. Their con-
fdenee is rather well justified too. That
Is. most Of them look as IL they'll have
20 trouble in growing muStacheS. In the
antique days. when men wore mustaches.
II was great joke to talk about base
ual mustaches-nine on side" in de-
riSion OF the cailow youths who as soon
as they began to shave, started 10 try
10 tease something their upper lip
into visible existence. Different how
ever. with the great majority of the men
VINO now are raising mustaches. When
"A man mas been shaving his upper lip
ciean Tor good many years to conform
TO the Smooth-faced standard he not
only does not have any difficulty in rails
ing mustache but he sometimes is
hard put to 1t TO keep the thing from
Sprouting too bristly and intractable
The new mustache is not one of those
old-time sweeping, spread-eagie. volun-
teer-freman affairs. Nunnot That NILS
tache Is gone forever say the BARRIERS of
the haut ton. The new mustache looks
like couple Of horizontally placed tri-
angular sooty stains the upper lips
the mustache mephistophelean so to
speak; just those two little pointed dabs
you'll recall
You can't block one of EN- out Your
self very well. unless you've done your
apprenticeship at the barbering trade;
proper limitations after you've had IL
blocked out. The thing has TO be shaver
all around, including underneath. The
edge of the upper lip must show; and.
to show, of course tat edge of the upper
lin must be shaved daily. You can't shave
the edge of your own upper lip beneath
one of the new mustaches IL you're just
an average shaver 1t takes barber 10
do il. You know the shoulder-shrugging
dagger little chap who plays the part OF
the French bouleyardier in any of the
modern musical comedies or extrava-
sanzas; and you remember his little dab