Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-15
~ THE MUSTACHE ~
&6 HAS RETURNED G~&kX

berino of a mustache? Well, that is the
thing. You could spend a good hour try
ing to NOW around mustache like that.
with little result of a satisfactory sort;
the barber has to do it; which may be
one of the answers. YOU see, for the pro-
mitigation of this new edict that it must
be the mustacbe. II the barber must do
it, you stop shaving yourself. and the
to suspect Interior motives; but it GER
tainly looks as if there were method in
this tonsorial madness.
The tyranny of the thing is that II
doesn't make any difference whether the
mustache is adapted to a mans pull
chritudinOsity or not, he must sprout one
anyhow. l know a number of men whose
countenance possessed certain dtStinc-
ton when they We're SmoOth-shaven
but who now, with their mustaches, look
ENTHUSIASTICALLY, hopelessy something
or other. Yet. TO offset this, there are
other men, with mouths that look like
gashes in cataclysn. who are improved
by muStaches. 1t would be fine thing
II We were allowed to take our pick-a
mustache or none. But il seems that no
such choice is to be permitted us.
The stage has taken up the revived
muStache, of course. You'll be observing
that most of the leading men with the
companies starting out from New York
this season will be wearing the renewed
and reshaped mustache. Even the chorus
men of all the new musical comedies
have them.
However. they can't lock us up for not
wearing one; and. at all events, We can
always move to Railway
7 SUPPOSE that in his own domain
Thomas A. Edison is great a man
as was Beethoven as composer. l
could not help thinking Of Beethoven s
heartrending deafness. which debarred
him from hearing his own compositions
for many years prior to his death, when
heard reporters shouting at Mr.. Edison
when the great inventor came up from
quarantine on. the steamer that brought
him from Europe the other day
Mr.. Edison is very deaf Oddly enough.
for such man (for this inventor has a
distinct sense of humor). he is quite SEN
sitive about his affiiction. The reporters,
interviewing him on the deck of the
steamer before his debarkation, had to
fairly bawl at him, and even then Mr..
Edison missed a lot of their questions.
However, he would not acknowledge that
he had missed a word, but pretended to
have heard each question perfectly. and
therefore he replied TO some of the ques-
tons that lie had-not heard in words that
had no bearing whatever upon the nature
of the interrogations. Here is the man
who invented the phonograph-and he
can't hear sound from the ordinary
phonograph; there is a special attach
ment and an immense horn attached to
the monographs that he uses for eX-
perimentation purposes.
But he looked better than / had ever
before seen him: rudy, rugged, renewed
whereas before he started off on this the
first vacation he had taken in nearly a
quarter of a century, he looked gray
pinched and a great deal older than upon
his return. He looked, in other words
just about as you'd expect a man to look
who works twenty-five hours a day and
sleeps the other two and eats haphazard
and takes no exercise whatever. He
didn't exerc Sc much during this European
tour. for he spent all of the time motor
ing about the con tinent; but al least he
was in the open a r most of the time and
that accounts for his improved appear
ance.
With other things Mr. Edison said
that Germany is far ahead of us In COM
mercial electrical enterprises There is
one electrical establishment in Berlin he
told the reporters where G0OJ0 men are