Salt Lake Tribune | 1905-05-02 | Page 4 | The Doctors Who Shave

THE DOCTORS WHO SHAVE. It appears that some of the cleanshaven clean-shaven doctors of the East have found out all nt on :e that It Is dangerous for the girls to kiss men who wear beards, and that the peril is especially great In kissing a man with a mustache. This Is no doubt to counteract the sentiment Of fondness that the girls naturally display dis-play toward the young man with hair on his upper lip This sentiment was recognized in an old quip from London, where two "chappies" were comparing mustaches when the fashion of wearing wear-ing them first came in One "chappie" began to excuse his Incipient mustache by saying he wore It because the doctors doc-tors said "It was "ealthy." "Well." said the other, who was blessed with a much heavier growth, "there's no 'umbug about me. I wears tin because they looks so fine, and goes down with the gals " That candid treatment of the question, ques-tion, besides Its unreserved frankness, recognized the fact that there Is always a certain amount of humbug in the consideration of this and similar questions. ques-tions. In this Immediate case, while it is true that for sanitary reasons it Is generally well for doctors to be clean shaven, there is no reason why doctors who thus shave off their beards and mustaches should attempt to derive an additional advantage from the practice, prac-tice, beyond the point of the safety it affords from the carrying of infection or contagion from on.' patient to another an-other We reject, therefore, the plea which would give the clean-shaven man such an advantage over the man with hair on his face. Let the doctors who shave clean, be content with the sanltaradvanlage which their hairless faces give them, and not attempt In 1h;it sun eptltlous manner to prejudice the girls against kissing other men than themselves.