Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1910 — Painted Lips. [ARTICLE]

Painted Lips.

The “Personal Recollections of Sutherland Edwards,” English music critic, records that after the peace of 1815 it used to be the rule for every hussar to wear % black mustache, and those who had neither a black mustache nor a fair One which they could dye were required to paint the semblance of a black mustache on their upper lip.