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Show Antiquity and WhiskerM Tradition says that Adam wore a full beard. That Is quite a natural supposition since that was before the time of razor advertisements. Beautifully Beau-tifully executed has reliefs have left no doubt that the early Persian kings cultivated whiskers. In fact, for further fur-ther adornment they plaited them with gulden thread. The Winged Bulls of Assyria are but types of those Kings. The Chinese are a shaven people; the Egyptians were the same. But the Mohammedans are bearded, and Saladin's son, Turkish historians tell us. wept for fear when he saw the shaven envoys of the Crusaders. The world is, and always has been, divided into shavers and bearded. The greatest benefactor of bar'jers In the world's history was Alexander. He. who hliaved himself to preserve Ids youth, shaved bis army to prevent the enemy seizing Lheir beards. j |