The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1913-02-21
GERMSVERSUSLOvE
Antiseptio Engagement Tha
Caused the Loss of Delicate
Little Mustache.
BY GUY ARTHUR JAMESON.

BY GUY ARTHUR JAMESON.
Florflla and had in reality been en-
gagged over year-s1nce an ldylnc
summer at Lake Mohonk, where we
had come to the supreme understand
ing intuitively and inevitably rather
than by any conscious intent. Tech
nically, we had been engaged two
months. Ours had been an ideal friend
ship and gave promise of an ideal mar
riage. We fitted into each other like
the halves of perfect whole. 1t
seemed that the gods had planned 1t
all and we were but willing, foolishly
happy puppets in their hands. The
blending of our love and personalities
was beautiful to see. Then came the
serpent in our Garden Of Eden, with
the usual serpent results.
1t happened on this wise. When /
called one evening Florilla did not
kiss me as was her custom. l offered
myself as usual, but she purposely or
absent-mindedly ignored me. felt ex-
tremely awkward. 1t flashed through
my mind that her love for me had be-
gun to grow cold. 1t filed me with
uneasiness and at the same time
famed my passion into fame.
! caught her in my arms impulsive-
ly and kissed her. Kissed her on the
snaky coils of her hair, for to my
dismay when she fathomed my inten-
ton she ducked her face and must
perforce expend the exuberance of my
| affection upon her hair-or was it her
hair?
| She struggled from my embrace.
holding her hands out defensively.
Don't, Harold. don't You mustn't
kiss me-"
"Florilla, what has come over your
l asked. following her up.
please sit down. Harold, and let me
explain" she said determinedly. 1--WE
been reading"
Reading? What has that to do with
your refusing to kiss me?"
Don't interrupt me, Harold. I've
been reading that wonderful book
The Insidious Pervasiveness OF
Germs by Professor Helmbalts Won
Baldoni. He says people little sus.
pect the danger that threatens them
every minute of their lives; that there
are millions of deadly germs lowering
about us waiting a favorable oppor
tunity to assault us, strike US down
They are in the air, on the furniture
and bric-a-brac, on our clothing and
bodies. He says larvae are more tc
be feared than lions. You shouldn't
have kissed my hair, Harold. You
were taking an awful"
"Florilla, what nonsense. Won Bal
doni Is crazy"
TITS terrible to think Of. Harold,
Florilla went on ignoringly; but he
said where there was "a mustache
or beard-it gave me the creeps wher
l read that, and we'd always been &C
reckless. And you have such a little
dear OF mustache. But think, dear
what might have happened. That's
the reason, dear Harold. l didn't kiss
you," she said naively, her eyes avoid
ing mine.
$50 your fear of Baldoni germs out
weighs your love for me-" sale
coldly.
Harold, don't be unreasonable.
love you just the same, only couldn'
think Of acknowledgements Low,
each other Just as devotedly-"
"And cut out unsanitary oscillation,
l interrupted, ironically. you ar
quite correct. couldn't think for
moment Of inoculating you with any o
the fifty-seven varieties of insidiou,
germs Professor Baldoni writes of *
illuminatingly. So ours will be a kiss
less engagement. We will love strict
ly along sanitary and scientific lines
Is there anything else Professor Vol
Bald advises lovers to cut out? Will,
we are at it, we had better settle OF
some definite program SO as to avoi,
the chance of embarrassing eacl
other"
Nov, don't be silly, Harold. There
nothing we need to cut out-if-you'
cut your mustache. Really would 70,
dislike it very much, Harold?"
"And you'll stand for the conss
Quences!
"Yes."
J II warn you, Florilla, it will make
J difference in my appearance. You'v
: never seen me shaven."
? How foolish. Do you think fell 1
r love with your mustache? It's such
r delicate little mustache, too, Harold
. You we're kind enough once" sal
. reproachfully, "to say it was han,
; some. That it gave me a distingu
0 air"
. $50 l did. 1t does. But may a,
9 mire you even more with it off, If tn.
Q were possible, and-and I'd feel q
4 much safer"
J. Then on she, he or 1t goes" sal
. with heroic finality. Never again wi
. you see me adorned with a hirsut
a delicate or otherwise, If it brings IL
n shadow of a shade between u.s."
rosa and hent over ber Sai,;no n,