Show A ON BEAI BEARDS iDS ff nature t ro a good All artlett Jit and it 1 Is best to lot let them gro grow naturally most men said the learned french barber imagine that they can control the direction in which their beards grow by shaving this is absurd if yoni will take a microscope and examine the face of a baby a week old you will see that the cheeks and chin are covered with very fine soft hairs invisible to the naked balked eye the direction in fin which they turn will never be chang changed ge d if the child is a male thosa hairs win will constitute the beard when it grows to td be a man if it is of the other dexl sex i they will make the down which the po poets ts praise frequently men man come to ta me and express a desire to have the of their beards altered shape by chaug 1 i ing the direction in which the hairs grow to all these I 1 say only i messieurs what you ask cannot be an all the curling irons and razors in the world are powerless against the decree of nature moreover it would be foolish for you to make such a change chaale even though it were possible nature nat ur e is a good artist and if her ideas are followed the result is always good blittle A little training here or there may bo 5 beneficial but the tha general plan of na naj j ture should I 1 uld be followed and not opposed to pose be thankful mestie messieurs urs that you have beards and do not try iry to ruin them so too I 1 tell those with straight beards who wish to make maka them curly and those with curly aurli beards who wish to have them straight it is possible to curl straight hair and also to straighten curly hair but the th effect is temporary and more or less injurious I 1 |