A LADY'S OPINION OF MOUSTACHES.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 7, Issue 419, 19 December 1884, Page 6

A LADY'S OPINION OF MOUSTACHES.

Tble i mpußts_li^, that sign of man's estate) or ot^e'rwise, has occupied no small place in the consideration of a large' ariiiy of writer^, although it has occupj^d a Very small' space on many a young man's iip—^so small, in fact, that none but' its possessor ever dreamed of Its existeticei The possessor of a ** downy ", f vjz on his upper lip is never io insulted as -when someone speaks lightly of" it. Itttnakes no difference to him how light it may be, he cannot bear Jo. hear it spoken lightly of. He realises 1 that, be has attained to a great responsibility when tbe first halfdozen straggling white hairs, if hairs j they ''' be, first make their a ppearance. He realises .the weakness of the «« moustache," and >c does nob feel at all inclinedto see that weak member of society imposed upon. Hence he is often angered by thoughtless remarks concerning it: But then there are moustaches and mou.stacbes. That is, what one would consider a moustache is considered by others as nothing but fuz. It tacks -growth and age, it is only in its !'. infancy, and unless encouraged is apt to pine away and die. Some owners of moustaches have to die anyway, bo why discourage the youth right at the very commencement of bis moustache prriod ? A lady once : wrote: Aa a rule I have a high opinion of a man who wears a moustache. Of course there are noodle, beads who are piouder of their mous. tacbes than a peacock of its new feathers, but' they are not the ones I endorse, and tbey really do bring the moustache into disrepute. There are few faces tbat are not improved by a carefully cultivated moustache, and I think when a moustache signifies anything at all it is something creditable. Of courts there are moustaches which are as void of expression aa the moss on ft dead log, andl don't mean that every uoustache is an advocate for its wearer, *«*' me^ are. Some men's J faces remind me .of a royal Bengal tiger, and all such are very wise to wear a moustache, which they usually can do. The stiff brusque military moustache all adds dignity to its possessor, arid tbe man who can wear an iron, gray moustache should be, I think, an object of envy to bis sex. The moustache brushed up and back I don't like. It makes a man look too flippant! The moustache clipped even with the lips gives a man a sinister air. The extravagantly long moustache is a sure indication of inordinate Tanity, and the pointed moustache is an exhibition of pitiful weakness or painful fliotbery. The most interesting moustache is the young mans firsthand the most delightful is the ■flk'y moustache of tbe young man of twenty-five. That lady is but one m » hundred. She knows whereof she speaks. There is nothing that will so change a man and give him a distinct personality as a moustache. And as a general thing, the man who is endowed by nature with a luxuriant one does not care about raising it, but rather regards it as a nuisance, a «• soup strainer " or a « coffee sipper," yet he who has it not goes in mourning over what he considers a great misfor. tune.— • Tit Bits.'