Show Bearded and Shaved Celebritea Algernon Ashton has turned his at tention from the dead to the living He lving writes The other day 1 was discussing with a friend of mine aa to whether there wore more famous cleanshaven mn < In the world or whether the major ity J of them wore beards I myself rather ra-ther Inclined to the belief that the bearded celebrities were In the major ity whilst my friend maintained the reverse re-verse Tho two combatants thereupon made up rival lists and the cleanshaven galaxy gal-axy was D follows Luther Napoleon Wellington Humboldt Newton Milton Pope Thackeray Goethe Shier Molt ke Mlllaly Bach Handel Beethoven Mozart Haydn Gluck Weber Chopin Berlioz Lachner Franz Meyerbeer Liszt Rubinstein Lincoln Edison Chatham CunnIng Peel Chamberlain Rosebery Asqulth and Morley Next came the immortals with beards Melancthon Rubens Rem brandt Bismarck Garibaldi Darwin umustone Salisbury Beaconsfleld Pal merston Shaftesbury Bright Balfour Harcourt Tyndall Huxley Spencer Tennyson Browning Swinburne Kip line Leighton Vlrchow Dickons Wag ner Brahms Mendelssohn Ulller Raft Gounod SalntSaens Bizet Tsehalkow sky Hiller and Rhelnbereer With the true Instinct of the lth Instnct newspaper news-paper correspondent Mr Ashton concludes con-cludes his letter with atibte of indecision inde-cision After scanning this list says he which of course could be extended ex-tended indefinitely my friend and I came to tho conclusion that the famous cleanshaven and boarded men were bout equally divided I myself Infinite ly prefer n cleanshaven face to a bearded one ns It generally looks so News much more intellectual London |