Show AW whiskers carne t ome will back fiss sas R Ha cc fo 0 y e oy by ELMO SCOTT WATSON raue RE wills whiskers era about to stage jg H a couie come balck on the face of r a american manhood walt wait y 3 now before you give a rv 19 scornful reply to that ques tion I 1 for there thee ore are certain LJ signs to indicate that the idea la Is not so fanciful na as tt it may appear to be at the first superficial thought do our newspapers accurately reflect contemporary t american life consider then two newspaper items one reads as follows apropos tile the rumor that whiskers are bout about tod to do c a c oms conr back asa as a companion alc plc to bustled bustles but bust ties les also alao reported to be sta g in ir a comeback come coine back this should bring about b oil t 9 a revival ot of the pottery in industry idu stry it br F stimulating trade in clr 0 cups cup wo ato review the 0 other goes into tho the subject more exhaustively and says taff taffeta ta and ana ruff fles have hen blen worn before batore and a atall t ill there was wan no wide 0 outbreak abre ak or of whiskers we had the long skirt tor for a while too and few whiskers W his k a rs ra returned turned nut it will be IL a surer s in g and in an thing it t we can ban h have ve bla black k mitts itts for or evening and billowy rn that sweep the ground around and these thesa coy puff sleeves and lane lace bonnets and now long skirted bathing suits a ven even and never a burn tai side ida to KO 0 w with h them the wax I 1 in n the windows of shop and alak ailko ico ory cry out tor for bearded company A woman in ili such apparel not only needs an escort to the ha soiree she needia a doughty buda blade with whiskers there tore fore h he will appear and the motion picture doctor will no longer loneer be b alone in his van dyko there are portents political and mu MOM A inels dispatch informs us that thal the present french cabinet which consists of 0 22 ministers arid and sub ministers shown not a single shaven rn member e I 1 aber 11 and in addition tour four chief re representatives p nt at the london parley brought mustaches while tile the ath h has il beard locally Io cally every one la in aware of 0 chief justice hushes mr 1 ilam ham lewis louis Grav ouro doctor notion nt the new toru botanical eardon anel doyd boyd critic incarnadine adl and finally several tenors have appia appeared r ed in those mustaches which wo we associate with baritones bary tones inevitably we w must return to our stutton chops chop if the spring fashions 0 continue back toward 1830 the short shor t bodice tho the e d frock the chig non and th the e gente bonteel 0 1 black glove elove JON look timid with no protect protective iv whiskers abna hove e them hem yet yat hero the they y are and when whiskers come bach muk mirk m uk irk your words worda so BO will chape chaperones chaperons rons new near york TrIbu tribune tio exber you have tt it from both the jural I 1 mryl and flik metropolitan press rep resenting both the country and the city I 1 llo noer wever truo true it be chrit tile tho safety razor using smooth faced american to bo in the lie mn mit bority today Is it b lu yond belief that lie may choose to return to 1 the he ile P glory of the post story shows chrit tile HIP facial adornment of fit tile the ix ruler it er or of it n usually sota the illi hirsute sute styles of tile the of that tint netlon lon now ot of course in a racy such as B ours blira tile tho eltI citizens zens are not lint likely to ImI dimitrite trite ili tl of their nt as ne the subjects of a monarchy to f aina nw tho the mode set hy by their king or emperor but the fact rein reinaldis alris that darlng most olour of our history americans americana anve in general followed the style in bernrd to whir whiskers kers or no tvr as aa set by adur ur presidents tm although that tant irtis lieve been only at a coincidence on our r early presidents from washington down to and including buchanan were fill all smooth faced and most Arnor americana lenns of their times were too abraham lincoln ans the first president with a full beard nod and during hla his administration the golden ake age of whiskers cesan vot the least of the element which gniado the civil war so picturesque were the magnificent mus mustaches baches beardain and sideburns which adornel adot ned the generals anti state statesmen umen linth hoth unton union arid and confederate during that perl od ed A civil war genered Kener gener kl rd or even a colonel col onil a or a captain without whiskers well the picture simply complete alij all lincoln Lincol ns successor Buc cessor andrew john won was smooth sharen it Is true but bat hla his more than mode up for his deficiency in carrying on thel tradition with the inauguration of rent grant whiskers came definitely into i their own and tor for the next thirty years they were much lu in evidence in both the white house and the capitol grant hayes garneld garfield and harrison all wore full beards arthur W vore ore a lung mustache tache and sideburns Bla and cleveland wore a mustache 1 I ill ays eys smooth shaven sharen face marked markeT tho the end of the eared era but roosevelt and taft symbolized a eort of a hans bane over with their mustaches musto chea the present smooth era her sun can with Wood woodrol Wc roV wilton and has continued through tile lio administrations 4 A 60 gen 1 AX furnside Surn side el wilh of fl ardIng and coolidge down to the election of hoover now that we have had nearly twenty years of smooth shaven presidents la Is the pendulum nebout to swing back again and give us another bearded president to set met tho the style for his follow fellow americana and if whiskers are to stage a comeback what are to be the roost most popular styles look at tile tho portraits of the bewhiskered no notables shown above and pick out your own style the full flowing chest protector beard worn by M Stan stanton tont secretary of war in Lincol ns cabinet Is not only typical of tho the style most popular I 1 in the american golden age of whiskers but it la is one or tile the oldest styles As will be seen been by data presented later in this article it goes back to very ancient times if however it would overtax tile the patience of the average american to wait for the growth of much liuch ft crop th tho hairy collar lar style wath the lie ostrich plume effect ns no exemplified by horace greeley Gre cloy the great editor might be less trouble to cultivate binny americans mav not remember the services sen ices of the lie gallant gon gen ambrose everett during the civil war ar but they are not likely to forget what lit lie contributed to american plin MOM adornment they are sometimes refe to ns its mutton chop whiskers thereby depriving the general of credit which properly belongs to him for as everybody ON an body knows tile the right raine name for them thein la Is obtained by reversing the I 1 he natile of the roan inan who milde thorn them and calling them 1 ills imperial tind ill fated Nn oleon III mado popular in preice the corn bIna lion rt of pol p mustache and lower ali c or fir which by bv tile lie nota not nii A of Imper till 11 it la Is doubtful if tf in nrc Arner lenn emild uld care for or th ill envell preferring i TIP rip of the lie made ln livi I 1 n iv more than lip lie would aar CD ic P fn tin sharply up till tinned ned I 1 i 0 nf if ta 1 wj i isar of germany one f 4 of t 11 latter type nt least there la Is it ion to this e hect is that it PS too much nt at such nf putting it in a cloth framework nt baht ft m alint it will ill not sag ing droop or other I IP gnp ts iq perly aorl uprightness the united stuns however hoever Is not the only country in which there tire are alws of nf a whiter whiskers conio conic bacic front france comes word cinta tant n well cnown arbiter of styles stales on tile lie boult boul bards has started a campaign for the return of nt the limarl which he re regards garIs as the outward sign of a mature mind roalnd thus Is an another other historical cycle completed for in early arly times the beard was cons considered by nil all as it 11 sign of strength anti carefully cherished and almost regard ed cd ns as sacred more than that its removal was considered ered a particularly degrading form of punishment in the second hook book rif of samuel in the old testament Is related the story of the servants which king david sent to hantin ruler of the ammonites to comfort him film for the death of hi his is father their reception Is described as aa follows and the princes prince of the th children of arnmon ammon bald ald unto itanen th their te ir lord ThI nIces kett t tho thou u I 1 that h at david doth honour thy father that he hath sent ent comforters unto then hath not david r rather ther search sent his hi servants oer Fer vanta unto thee to search the city and to spy py it out and to over throw it itt wherefore haun took davids servants erv and shaved on off the one half 0 of tasir beards and cut oft off their garments Kar ments in the middle even to their buttocks and sent them away when they told tt it unto david he sent lent to meet them because the men man were greatly ashamed and the king said tarry at jericho until your beards be irown aronn and then return among the moslems the beard wn wax also held in great respect and the strongest oath that a mohammedan could utter was hy by the beard of the prophet tl 1 people of this religious belief took great care of their beards habitually carrying combs to comb it and keep it in order it was tasir custom to do tills this after prayers while still atilt on their knees and if any hairs fell out they immediately picked them up and preserved them for burial with their owners they also dyed their beards usually red not only because dye of that color was easily obtainable but because it was nearly like the golden yellow the color re recommended coill by mohammed who hated black the color which the persians dyed their boards beards in france and spain the wearing of beards followed the styles set by th the monarchs mon arcLa of those countries the beard was commonly worn in france until the time thile of louls louis XII who bei be i ing young and beardless set a new style and the fashion changed in spain the loyal spanish courtiers removed their beards when philip vi V who a ho was vi as unable to grown grow a beard came to the throne in russia peter the great issued a royal edict eillce compelling his subjects to shave or any a tax on their beards beardi in proportion to the rank of the wearer henry vill VIII of england attempted a similar tax in england but found it difficult to enforce the law and later inter gave gate it up tip As a result the reigns of elizabeth rind and tames james I 1 were characterized by the wildest g gance in beard growing with some men clipping their beards into as many formal shapes as tile old fasli boned box boi under the reign ot of charles I 1 tile van dyko dyke beard named for tho the famous painter became only to he be followed by a n smooth faced ern era dining the eighteenth cen tury and down to the days of our ilear dear queen victoria whose royal confort co niort and wh whose e 8 son on later inter edward VIT VII brought back the pointed heard ns as one of tha glories of tile the mid vic borlan days if indeed there la Is a whiskers comeback and beards once more become popular they will hrin bring with them being problems one of them tart what hat to do with the heard beard when it la IS not in use taking it for granted grunted that it a board beard can he put to use uie such as aa stroking it as nn an ali to cautious thought and tweaking lt it either ones own cr nn others to suggest oleere violence ol enre determination or how iio serious tills this problem may inay he be Is andl acted by the following incident related recently by a writer in the boston sterald sonia somo years eso ago a certain eminent man inan ot of new england wrote a letter to another eminent now new englander clander En whose title to eminence to li substantial an and d whose beard Is celebrated throughout the land it Is if a beard in the fullest dimensions of old now new england in the letter latter to this bearded new englander the friend asked this question when you retire at night do you tuck the beard under the th sheet or do you leave leav it fro free outside and above the sheet ahten tsilta we are itolia caused the wearer 0 of the heard beard much distress until the matter had thus been called to his attention he h Is reported to have told his friends afterward he had never riven this problem any thou thought cht lie its had retired at night as other men do and had haa fallen gracefully into steep sleep u untroubled ad and it never had occurred to him that there WAS van alay anything thing complicated or about the performance sine since that letter and its question lon however he had hardly had a 9 comfortable nights sleep for the moment he put out the light and popped into bed bad he had begun to debate which disposal of his beard be to might the more comfortably make mak above the sheet or beneath it by this we wa learn that the beard like many another an othar luxury in life carries wit with anar it I 1 responsibilities and |