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Show Whisker Not Likely to Return to Fashion Some men (a few) look well In whiskers, but fashion doesn't care a whit for that It says. Nay. The uncovered face makes a clean sweep. A few mustaches survive, small reminders re-minders of the period following the Civil war, when they gradually superseded super-seded the beards the generals and many soldiers in the ranks brought back from the camp and the battlefield President Harrison was the last of the Presidents to wear a beard. There was a genera ruck of hair In the later lat-er lS60s ; even college students In photographs can be seen wearing more or less transparent burnsides. The despoliation began soon after that. The hair on the caput became shorter, also; and the manfolk generally be gan to be "down on huir." It was a wrench for the elder masculine population popula-tion to give up their chin whiskers, but they yielded and compromised on keeping the upper lip unshaven. Now. few men living know what their whiskers would look like if they "turned them out,'' curious as many of them are about it The hirsute tide may turn almost any year, and the physiognomical dec orations of our granddads bloom again. F. H. Collier in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. |