The Coconino sun., 1919-08-29
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 "Say, Mir. Cheerful Chirp Man." said M. J. Riordan, "why don't you have some fun with F1agstaff's men with whiskers? They're pretty scarce nowadays, but you remember few years ago no man thought he looked right without them. Now they're so rare, they're odd"
 "Yes, you could get some fun out of that" said T. A. Riordan. "You might head your article, Where are the whiskers of yesteryear?'
 Then they named over few of the men who still go hirsute-Doc. Miller, the Babbitt brothers (whose boys have reneged on the family custom), and Judge Gilliland being among the number.
 Most of our whiskerites keep them pretty we'll trimmed, however, which is a compromise between the daily close shave and the old go-as-you- please style. But still, there's enough left of them where they jump of the chin to stroke while the wearer is trying to look thoughtful, or to hang onto when he isn't wearing g vest to hang his thumbs in the armholes.
 Even mustache cups aren't much in demand now. Suppose Bert White uses one---anyway, he ought to--and probably Judges Jones, Kidd, Perkins, and Layton, and few others.
 Probably the mustache cups were the psychological reason most of their former users had their mustaches ~n~>s-IoJ kkas. onn stantly of the old-style barber mug, with it's little soap shelf.
 Remember how funny your upper lip looked and felt for a while after you had it shorn of its long hair? Oh, where are the whiskers of yes-
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 They're gone, like the whiskey, and
 gin and beer.
 And also the mustaohe we loved so
 well?
 Gone also, like musty ale, rum, mo- The fashion prohibits boards and the And the law prohibits hair on the
 chest.
 He was slightly peeved. This is what he said to some friends Satur- day:
 aHe told me the car had run 10000 miles, and was just getting loosened up. Right. It cost me $47.50 to have it frightened. He told me it was a hill climber. It was-after had four new pistons installed He told me the tires were new. They were-once. He said he was giving me a spare. He did. and it was one he could spare without a pang of regret. He surely wrecked my young life, that's what he did"
 John Clark, the merchant, says he knew a Jewish clothing dealer, who had big wooden apple made and painted and hung it outside up over his door for sign.
 "What in the world have you got an apple for a sign for?" asked friend. "You don't sell apples"
 "No, but if it hadn't been for the apple there wouldn't have been no clothing business, would it?" he re- torted.
 Columbus got a salary of $320 a year. His captains each got $1S0 a year. His crew each got $2.25 a month. To equip the expedition that discovered America cost $2,S00. and the total cost of discovery was $7,2e0.
 John Knox got $220 year. But in his time a Christmas dinner for six cost: Turkey 10 cents, cranberry sauce. 2 cents, potatoes, cent, tur- nips 1 cent, plum pudding 2 cents total IT cents, or less than 3 cents a head.
 None of the sightseers at the snake dance got snake-bit. But there's no excuse for it these days.
 Speaking of snake bites reminds us of a story told by Dr. G. F. Manning, senior:
 "I used to know an old fellow, a mountaineer, down in Alabama. He kept his jug in the hole of log. He would go down at sundown to take a swig of mountain dew-mountain dew that had never been humiliated by revenue officer nor insulted by a green stamp. He drank that concoc- tion that came fresh from the heart of the corn. and he glowed. One even- ing while he was letting the good liquor trickle down his throat he felt something touch his foot. He looked down and saw big rattler coiled and ready to strike.
 "The old fellow took another swig of the corn, and in defiance he swept the snake with his eyes.
 "'Strike. dern you, strike he loudly shouted, You will never find me bet ter prepared"
 There's a lot of talk these days about food profiteers storing huge supplies of food so as to bring up the price. We happen to know lot of other miscreants in the same class, who deserve the same odium. They are the farmers. They are just about to harvest their oats crops. Then they will store most of the oats away to