Show THE LATEST IN BEARDS fashion decrees against the pointed style an authority gives some historical on the Subject The squarely trimmed beard kocum ane to favor it has been decreed by the artistic barbers of paris that the pointed heard which has for so loss a time held popular favor is no longer the thing of fashion that it was As has happened before in the history of the world says the new york sun it is to be supplanted by another beard having many of its characteristics but still different in its entirety M poujol late of the paris jockey club and the greatest of american barbers gives this reason for the change the pointed beard he said has certain advantages over all others and that is the reason why it has so long been popular it is a style of beard that was invented by king henry ial of JF rance it requires less training and caro than any other and therefore in ibis busy country where men do not caro to waste more time than is necessary in attending to their personal ap pc arance it has naturally been widely adopted but because of its popularity it must lyv go the gentleman of fashion refuses longer to wear a beard which has become so common that every dry goods clerk wears it that is the reason why it has been discarded by the high toned gentlemen of pans they found that everybody was wearing it that it bad become too popular they said this will not do we must have something more exclusive the cry is re echoed in this country and the beginning of the end has come the new beard resembles the one now about to be discarded in some respects it is like a pointed beard with the point cut off it is very thin and closely cut on the cheeks it is a peculiar fact that the adoption of this stylo after discarding the other is but a repetition of history after henry II 11 I 1 had made the pointed beard so fashionable the due do guise introduced the present beard the duo de guise as you will remember was tho instigator of the huguenot massacre on st Bartholo mews day ho lived in the sixteenth century and was assassinated in his forty third year by order of henry III the now beard is not likely to bo so universally adopted as the other was because it requires moro care and attention there is another reason for the popularity oe the pointed beard which mr poujol did not cefer to that isy the fact that it assists the busy man in reflection unlike any other beard this one can be seized at its apex and twisted and pulled and fondled without in tho slightest degree interfering with its good appearance iscis no uncommon thing to seea man with a pointed beard twisting the point of it with a satisfied air while lost in reflection many prominent citizens who wear a pointed beard have not yet apparently learned the decree thit has doomed it they still go on wearing it as though the mandate of fashion was not the terrible thing that everybody realize sit to be they will undoubtedly all come around however to the conclusion that it is better to bo in stylo than to be happy in the meantime the fortunate gentlemen who are in the vanguard of the fashion are undoubtedly rejoicing over that fact board which is divided in the center continues to hold favor with those gentlemen who do not feel that their faces will permit their scaring any other their action is highly applauded by M poujol who lays down the fundamental principle that in growing a beard one must not go against nature if the latter insists upon having the hair grow in certain directions it is merely the part of folly to attempt to turn them any other way but the fortunate man who can train hia beard in the way in which ho wishes it to go is ot bound by any such restrictions he can always follow the style |