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Show ! REAL TRUTH ABOUT SIDE WHISKERS The truth about whiskers is out. Turn the spotlight on Chauncey Depew. Returning to his own, his native land, after his annual wandering on foreign strands, America's ex-champion after-dinner statesman stood on the deck of an Atlantic steamer the other day and admitted that he was the modern father of all hirsute facial adornment. Mr. Depew was much incenBed by the report that an invasion of English Eng-lish whiskers threatens the United States. He fingered his own flowing white ones caressingly as he made the following points: That he began to raise this same crop fifty years ago. That forty-nine ytars and nine months ago they were just as they are now, barring a whiteness of color that Is natural at seventy-nine. That he made many annual trips to England, taking the whiskers with 1 r - 1 ,4 ' is . i :; f '' ' A aim each time, and just as surely bringing them back to America each time. That Englishmen, at first deriding him, came finally to imitate him. That within the last few years few Englishmen have ventured to brave their bleak native out of doors smooth shaven. And that, considering all these things, a thinker can plainly see It la i not an invasion of English whiskers, but of native grown American whiBkers that threatens this country. |