| Show HISTORY OF THE BEARD facial adornment has had comparatively little favor if any writer on the history of civil should ever undertake to write a history of the beard he will have to record the fact that a majority of the peoples were beardless just as the savages carefully re move every bit of hair from their faces either oy dy shaving or by pulling the hairs out by b their roots the civil iced nations in nearly all epochs of civilization considered it the proper thing to be beardless the ancient egyptians greeks and romans looked with contempt upon the barbarians who allowed their hair and beard to grow unrestrained and believed that only a perfectly smooth face wa was proper and dagni fled for an aducat ed man only in rare cases an cazort egyptian would al low two tufts of hair to grow on hia ills chin and the greeks and romans were so radical in their ideas on the subject that they even had their eyebrows shaved off considering them superfluous and con arary to their ideas of beauty the egyptians removed the hair froin from their faces aces with the same primitive stone knives which the kaffits of south af rica ties use to the present day the greeks used sickle shaped knives sometimes made of precious metals tor for the same pur pose opinions on the beard quest question I 1 on r were divided in 4 jwj al 1 europe during the 0 GREEK K middle ages while peasants and men of science kept their faces smooth tradesmen soldiers and patricians considered it a matter of pride to wear fine long beards during and after the thirty year years war when the much criticised criticized custon custom of following fashions was transplanted from france to germany and other countries the beards were reduced to a minimum only a narrow strip un der the nose was permitted to remain which strangely contrast ed with the buhy gerules which the men used to put upon their closely shaven heads when the OLD ENGLISH RAZOR went out of fash ion the beards tol fol lowed them during the me of the last century beards began to mak make their appearance again though at first only modestly tra gradually dually they as fumed larger proportions and finally during the last ten or more years there Is practically no restriction la in regard to beards |
