The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 21, 1952, Page 6

Page 6 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN FLASH GORDON THIS IS THE CORNUCOPIAK! Friday, November 21, 1952 By Dat Ban, IT 1S A MACHINE THAT SUPPLIES PEOPLE DESERVING THE PHANTOM A THE TOADMEN Prades SWIM Wal TOWARDS THE UNE Ra (i BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH Oxay,-IF YOU WANT TO GOTO THE GAME WITH ANOTHER GUY INSTEAD OF ME — T DONT Care 2 Ey, YOU You CANT GO UP THERE «HUH FEE: at PPERS EVERYONE IN THIS DUMP, INCLUDING ME, IS LOSING His MIND. KY, LET'S GET Wilson McCoy 0-9, RIDDLES!! HUH ? OH,SURE, CHIEF. HE UNDER- STANDS EVERY THING...LET'S GET OUT OF HERE...WOULDN'T LOOK * RIGHT FOR US TO BE TALKING TO T AIN'T HONGRY!! = “atl BOYLE SAYS By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK W—Many women have married a man because of his bankroll. But did any woman ever marry a fellow solely be- cause of his mustache? Did she ever, crumpling shyly against his manly ym, mur- mur: “You yourself have an utterly resistible personality, my dear. But your mustache! Ah, I can fight against it no longer. It has swept me quite off my feet.” A boy, rubbing castor oil on his upper lip to stir the slow growth of the reluctant fuzz thereon, may daydream of such situations. But I have never heard in real life of a mustache with much romantic influence. What is the actual social impact of the mustache? This question arjses because it appears that this form of male facial landscaping is getting more popular. It seems to me I see more and more mustaches around. I would like to believe this is only because there are more people in the world, as I like to look at the bright side of things. I would hate to see mustaches become a badge of valor or a measure of achievement, as in a society in which that were true I would have to become a hermit. Men grow mustaches for only three general reasons: 1, They have an inferiority com- plex. » 2. To pay an election bet. 3. Curiosity. The first of these reasons is the most widespread. And the average mustache carrier will admit it, if pressed. “I grew mine to prove to myself that I could do something the oth- er guys in my crowd hadn’t done,” one said. “It helped me overcome a lifelong feeling of inferiority, and gave me an immediate sense of security and personal victory.” The boy or man. who rears a mustache out of curiosity or to pay an election bet he has lost soon finds the novelty wears thin, and off comes the mustache. The time and trouble it takes are no longer worth the effort. But one who grows a mustache to cure himself of inferiority will never yield it until death. In case of fire he places its safety before that of women and children. It is his hairy banner of success in the battle every man fights with- in himself, his flag against the world. Behind every mustache lurks a mouse that has been turned by this symbol into a lion, Ever watch a man with a mus- tache? Notice how he toys with it, reaching up now and then to be comforted by the fact it is still there? He never is safe from the fear someone will take it away from him, or shave it off while he is asleep. A mustache automatically turns a man with an inferiority complex into a man with a superiority com- plex. Secretly or openly, he be- comes a snob about it. Often he will take more trouble to discipline it properly than the ordinary par- ent does to curb a wayward son. He couldn’t sell it for a cup of coffee, but to him it is a patch of real estate more valuable than all the forests of Canada. In his case clothes don’t make the man—but his mustache does, That, I believe, is why wives put up with husbands’ mustaches. Be- ing kissed by them must be vague- ly like being hit in the mouth with a toothbrush. But a woman tells herself, ‘Well, if it makes my little man feel taller, I'll go along.” And that’s what the mustache does do. It gives the fellow the —_— | tienteme By JOHN RO 'T made you decide to pose) ETRE na" jump over the skin as her father? He watched the cheeks and hands ee ee oe Lrestile. seit 3, she See i evitable that I must. For con- “ venience, and for Then, the child asking ‘questions. that. were’ ent tag RERGEES 8 i Hi a3 i Z i 588 ote detecti watched the flinch. “I don't exactly know ‘re about, or oes Lenten or and I'd_ give for a cli wad il ze && j ; Everest Mystery Still Unsolved NEW DELHI, India, # — The Everest mystery — have the Swiss climbers conquerete m or not? -- was still unsolved here, In fact the mystery deepenec. Some earlier reports had said the climbers failed by 50 yards. But today a Swiss Legation spokesman reminded that the ex- pedition had no radio communica- tion equipment and no word has come from them, “Runners are the only means of bringing. out word and that means a 10 to 15-day trip,” he ange far we have received no E The climbers planned to make their final assault on the world’s highest peak last Saturday. same feeling he had when he wore stilts as a boy. What I have against mustaches is that I once tried to grow one out of curiosity—and found I could not. It didn’t grow. It drooped and dribbled. How do you cure an inferiority complex arising from the discovery you can tear a telephone boox in half, but can’t grow a measly, pid- dling, worthless, unsightly, out-of- date, impractical thing like a mus- tache that nobody really wants anyway? ~ ESSE wr «SERR8SRSR F TOUGH COP cmon Gd Badolt tey to Mae! net Richt at thee AM, fe : Mi rf is a i sj i i h Fa | Bae. 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