Our finances should be beyond suspicion of
dishonesty.
LARGE MOUTHS ABE FASHIONABLE.
The fashion papers, which are authority on the styles, claim that ladies
with large mouths are all the fashion now, and that those whose mouths are
small and rosebud like are all out of style. It is singular the freaks
that are taken by fashion. Years ago a red-headed girl, with a mouth like
a slice cut out of a muskmelon, would have been laughed at, and now such a
girl is worth going miles to see.
It is easier to color the hair red, and be in fashion, than it is to
enlarge the mouth, though a mouth that has any give to it can be helped by
the constant application of a glove stretcher during the day, and by
holding the cover to a tin blacking box while sleeping. What in the world
the leaders of fashion wanted to declare large mouths the style for, the
heavens only can tell.
Take a pretty face and mortise about a third of it for mouth, and it seems
to us as though it is a great waste of raw material. There is no use that
a large mouth can be put to that a small mouth would not do better, unless
it is used for a pigeon hole to file away old sets of false teeth. They
can't certainly, be any better for kissing.
You all remember the traveling man who attended the church fair at
Kalamazoo, where one of the sisters would give a kiss for ten cents.
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