METHODIST BISHOP URGES MEN TO WEAR MUSTACHES
Fayetteville, North Carolina (JFK+50) On November 16, 1925, Associated Press reports Bishop Collins Denny "solemnly advised" delegates at the North Carolina Methodist Conference yesterday in session at the Hay Street Church that men should wear mustaches*.
Bishop Collins said...
"If you would keep your sex in public, grow a rich patch of hair upon your upper lip."
The Bishop's advice is in keeping with his belief "that is all women have left us." He maintains they cut their hair like men and they even wear men's clothing.
What can't women do? They can't wear a mustache. "It is your badge of masculinity."
While most of the men attending yesterday's conference were clean shaven, Bishop Denny sported "a rich patch of hair" upon his upper lip."
JFK+50 NOTE
Presidents of the United States who wore mustaches include Chester A. Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt & William Howard Taft.
Taft, who wore a handlebar mustache, was the last POTUS to wear "a rich patch of hair" upon his upper lip.
*mustache (aka moustache {FR}) derived from Italian "mustaccio" & was popular in the 1880s and 1890s.
SOURCE
"Wear Mustaches To Show Manhood, Bishop Urges Men," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., November 16, 1925, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
