Show HISTORY OF SHA shaam 6 ONCE UPON A 1 C ALL MM N everywhere WORE beards biards BEARDS alexander of greece Is I 1 said sall to ilare ileen the giret darber barber beard itada 11 lieen common Corr irton during the story of 0 earliest races some Ilc ne marks maiks to tnt editon can you tell ua us when shaving ingramo came into fashion also of I 1 the he history of beards GROWN BROWN AD AND JONES this question is apropos at this period when the nineteenth century is 13 coming to the end of tho the division the fire has been put out in the box and old father time lias has reversed rei eased tho the wheels and put on the brakes it is particularly fitting that somebody either brown or jones or both should anse arise and put this question Iti it is a fin de question the first instance of shaving originated from the necessities of war in the late autumn of the year 3 ear D B C the mace lonians got their crops in early and after tho the celebration of the harvest barvest horns bonia things got pretty uninteresting in macedonia it was too cold to fish and too warm to skate and tho the prospect for the macedonian on pleasure bent when be he fired up the base bumer burner and reflected that skates been invented yet was not a happy one things continued to drag on until thanksgiving time B C when the tho macedonians Macedon ians got together sailed down on the greeks and did them battle the greeks got the worst of it and for no other reason than that they sported long flowing beards tho marauding ma mace doni lonians fins grabbed these grecian ornaments and yanked the poor greek forty ways for sunday leaving him a howling mass on the ground it was this thie incident that probably gave rise to the couplet when greek meets macedonian an then comes the lug tug of beard an old veteran by tha the name of alexander saw at once the weak point of the grecian forces and he called in a loud loice voice off with every beard that settled it the next day a committee called on tho the army a ripsaw and a bucket of salvo and amputated every beard in eisha this is an account of the first shave known to history the record of the first barbering barben ng is is a frontlet of curls made for a princess in the east years cars ago now in the british museum homer has tho the first reference to the razor in in the eighth century B C ho ile says with some feeling death or life stands on a razors edge after tho rape of the beards of tho grecian army shaving sharing became popular with some but not until a much later day and when greece had started down the toboggan slide of adversity did it become general in fact it is a will well known fact among historians that the fashion of smooth faces among the men has marked the effeminacy weakness and final downfall of all nations the romans were always al a s partial to beards until the roman empire became too big bg for its clothes and acquired a swagger when hadrian set the tile example of a smooth chin in A D and gave the roman barbers a boom the first mention of barbers la is by pliny somewhere somei hero along about B C scipio africans Afric anus took a jaunt to sicily and there thero saw baw some barbers they pleased him ami anil he brought back torome to rome and had bad his beard taken off scipio was a good deal of a ward mcallister in in his day and the roman swells rapidly followed cult suit after that it got to bo be a common bight right in rome for a row of men to sit until 12 saturday night and listen for next but this was only among the F four our hundred the bone bono and sinew of the roman republic swore by their beards all through the orient short hair and beardless chins have always alwa s meant a condition of nio mourning and servitude son etude A long beard was priceless and the madans still swear by their beards the prophet ezekiel as early as B C was directed to take a barbers razor upon his head and upon bis his beard in sign of the nun ruin to come upon israel the men were set free but were ashamed to go to david with any of their beard gone ho he found them however and sent them on a vacation oil to let their beards glow grow out an old greek known among his friends as ZO zoilus ilius who lived in B C and was dropped iff a precipice for criticising criticizing critic ising homer had 0 yd yeli long iong beard and so solicitous olie liong 7 was ho he that lertg hair on his is head might inight detract from tho the strength of the beard that be kept ins his clean shaven after thomas more bad had taken leave of his ills daughter 0 at tho the foot of the oid in 1535 his chief anxiety was that the headsman might injure his beard the finest beard on record belonged to Gilla guillaumo utne the priest bishop of cl clermont ermont who w ho founded the college for jesuits at pans paris late in the eighteenth c century this beard was long wavy and soft as silk but hia beard was his downfall his brother bishops became jealous of it and decided that it must come off this was decreed at a secret council and the next morning when the priest entered the chapel three men met him with soap hot water a razor and shears and laid bold hold of him he ile broke away addled and took refuge in a castle where lie da dil dad d of vexation the only exceptions where beards have not been considered as advantageous appurtenances were among tho the germans the egyptians eg and in the early earl colonial days da s among the puritans the ancient german youth 5 dutli waa was not allowed allow ed to shave until ho be bad had slain an enemy in battle and among the ne new W england puritans long iong beards were sometimes borci forcibly ty reaped because the idea prevailed that pride lurked bahi behind n d a oner vener able beard it was not until the be beginning in of the present century that ilie the long beard went er out of fashion binco since then smooth facea faces have b been een on the increase and any person who w ho will take tho the trouble to notice the men who pass pats a given gi en point for an hour on any of the busy streets of chicago will see but a very few long iong beards it is not improbable b at ble that in another century if the erard beard is continually cropped the long beard will no longer grow and will become comes a thing of history and story bocks boelt s chicago inter ocean |