Show SOME WONDERFUL WHISKERS S. S G. G Brinkley a native of South Carolina claims to have the longest beard In the states Its total length Is fi five e fe feet t four inches and until he cropped the ends recently to make it more convenient to handle It measured measured measured meas meas- six feet two inches in length Mr Brinkley conceals the beard In Ina ina a bag beneath his shirt and has worn worn It ever since he was was twenty-five twenty years of oC age He Is now fifty It is not cultivated but an uninvited d and spontaneous crop of whiskers At one onetime onetime onetime time Mr Brinkley used to shave shaye regularly regularly regularly regu regu- but when he was about twentythree twentythree twentythree twenty- twenty three his beard began to te make Its appearance appearance appearance ap ap- ap- ap with remarkable speed and from one weeks week's end to another his face Cace would literally be covered with a soft and luxuriant beard At last ho begun to get tired of continually clipping clipping clipping clip clip- ping and shaving and decided to let the beard grow to see how long his whiskers would get and before the end of the year they were at his his his' feet Mr Brinkleys Brinkley's beard Is by no means the longest on record for In 1903 Alexander Alexander Alexander Alex Alex- ander Craigle Craigie of Perth won a prize for the longest beard The length length- was seven feet two and one half I Inches Another competitor a gentleman gentleman gentleman gen gen- of ot Llandudno was nowhere with a stubbly growth of only four fe feet ft t two Inches Mr Craigie began to grow his beard when he was five ty-five years of age He wore It usual usually ly folded up tip Inside his waistcoat and and- trimmed so as to look like an ord ordinary every day sort of oc beard The worlds world's record however was was' held by Robert Latter of Tunbridge Wells England who six years ago boasted of at a beard no less than sirteen six six- teen teJn te Jn feet In length which he wore Wor wound round his waist Mr Latter who at that time was seventy eight years rears of age began to grow the beard when he w was s about thirty At first he cultivated two curls beneath his chin and as their length Increased he used to to wear them beneath his waistcoat 1 Eventually these curls attained such a length that for his own comfort comfert he had to enclose them In iD a a- bag which was renewed every birthday Ultimately Ultimately Ultimately Ulti Ulti- Mr Latter plaited his beard and aud as it became too large even to bo ho carried In a n bag he wound It round his waist and used to say that It was an excellent protector chest and a good deal warmer than anything he could buy |