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Show WARNS BEARDED MEN. Physician Points Out Extreme Importance Im-portance of Keeping Whiskers Free fiom Dampness. "It is well that old men should wear beards," said a physician, "for when one becomes old ono should bo spared the exertion of dally shalng, Uut I would like to Issuo n warning to all benrd wearers. I would like to shout 'Keep your beardri dry,' In a voice loud enough to be heard around tho world. Were those words heeded many cases of sore thront, cold and Influenza would bs avoided and many deaths would bo Indefinitely Indefinite-ly put off. "So many men with beards neglect, when they wash their races, to wipe their boards dry. A beard a foot long demands a lot of toweling. It should be toweled after every wash a good 'five minutes. Otherwise It Is damp. The owner goes about with this damp thing upon his delicate and sensitive tluoat. Then. If he tnkej tomllltlii or Inllneu-a, ho blames the American climate. There aro too many damp beards among us. Too many men, wnsblng their faces three or four tlir.i n day, have their beards damp nnd clammy a good threo Irouis dally." |