Show A CHAPTER ON BEARDS how men man winve cultivated and worn them from tho the cincinnati men lien wear ther beard as they may please the question shall flahave lahave la a have ave is import important aut only to the man who asks it yet it was all the difference at one time between ostracism and being in the style and at another of coming within the bounds of mother church and being a schismatic no mohammedan dares shave today to day unless he lie belongs ton to a certain sect for it is a sufficient mark of co contempt to calla call n mana man a ano no beard an insult not notto to be borne to threaten to tear it out while you can wish the moslem no better fortune than that hh his beard may grow when heliin Seli I in the sixteenth century dared to shave off his beard he shocked the faithful more than if he had cut off ot the whole population of a conquered town it was a bold act for him to smile at the luftis muftis remonstrance he who clings to his beard may comb it daily with assiduous care and even encircle li it with a ring if proud roud of its length of filament but he would hardly follow the assyrian fashion and plait it in many rolls and bind it with ribbons nor would lie put it in a case as the ancient dwellers by the nile did their false bearde beards the israelites who gathered at jerusalem would be his exemplars for tb they were proud of their unadorned beards and retained them even in in captivity among the clean pyramid builders jos joseph e h shaved himself before answering tl the lo 10 summons of pharaoh that he be might not be offensive to the mighty ruler ruler which is only an early instance of that capacity of accommodating themselves to circumstances which makes tho the jews so o powerful today to day the beardless face is s the tile fashion of the gladiator and the prize fighter for the same reason that alexanders valiant soldiers shaved their chins by royal command in order that they might no longer carry arr y about with them a handle whereby the enemy could seize them the reason was good or there might have been hostile inquiries for foi the truthful youthful ful conqueror on the part of his its own army but men who grow beards are as proud of them as of their own children are they not their own product and full of individual idio E every very crinkle means something if it represents presenta rc bothi nothing na more than a dime saved from the barber peter the great knew human nature and used his knowledge to extort money from his subjects he ile laid a tax on beards and aud at first raised more commotion than co pecks but the government barbers began shaving off the beards of delinquents and that tax was paid with expedition the mustache has been an object much solicited the young man upon whose upper lip a constant shadow hanga hangs is the one who finds it most necessary to stroke it it must be nursed and coaxed man hood has advanced its sign and the boys thoughts are afe always on it with how much envy he lie looks on the next young roan man whose upper lips fro crop tin has s a years cars growth ita its half ince inch lon long g filat filaments ments he be endeavors to twist to a point he waxes it to make it lie down the young youn man has done th this is in in every age an and clime where hair was not despised to return to tho the ancient dwellers by old nile tho young toting egyptian was spared one of the most anxious periods of life for his father had shaved him constantly since he was five years old leaving only a couple of lacks locks to hold him mm by should he prove prove to be a renegade yet the mustache has been as much preached at as any sin sin man can comm commit englishmen of a century or so ago looked on it that is the mustache eolus as a french frivolity the courtly frenchman of the time of louis trained this appendage of his face to un unnatural natural length until re bently the english prejudice still showed itself in regulations which I prevented its display in tho the arm army y and among the clergy just now and among americans the mustache is ali the favorite form of hair upon the face in ita its place it eels sets off the face and doctors declare it is of great use in straining Dg the air which goes into the lungs neither dust nor ordinary smoke will go g through with it when cultivated to excess it is valuable as a coffee e strainer the man who ho when he be takes a spoonful of soup his mustache cb with his left hand and carefully depositing the side of the spoon on the edge of the cavern displayed beneath tilts tilo it over ever until the contents are spilt is not a graceful object at dinner in the name ef of all that is cleanly the inveterate tobacco eschew cither either the long mustache or his favorite quid englishmen and irishmen to come some extent affect afflect eide laide whiskers americans do the same josh billings a close observer of human nature says that nine tenths of all tho men who wear side whiskers arc members of some church let the reader look around him thia this rooming morning and judge if josh k k is not about right sido side whiskers become becom some esome faces but even oacar oscar wilde would not defend a red face framed in pale gold guld whiskers as an object of beauty there are two varieties of this species one is the rather elegant affair which ia is long and slightly scanty of hair the other variety is shorter bushy busby and has a curl forward this is worn by cads aads the imperial was first cultivated in r france ran ce IV when hen it is full and has an elegant curl it may mav be graceful and is always rather becoming the goatee goate e popularly supposed to be named por for the odoriferous animal which wears it has a smack of humor in it it gives one the impression that its owner is a jester or at least a man full of quaint conceits on a full face otherwise shaven it sometimes has a comical air how severe is a man who has his whiskers and beard clipped off oft square he is square also in ill fell 11 his and measures other folks mor morals ils by rule and plumb he would reduce life to geometrical figures figure and lay out the road to heaven by a species of theological trigonometry his is the beard of formal cut which the melancholy jacques describes roan man as its wearing in the sixth or magisterial age the hinted pointed beard is an affectation of ortho the double pointed beard which is the sign of a cleft chin hidden bidden under it the hair does not part gracefully without this j c the beard is a mark of sanctity wisdom is thought to accompany it when long lon and whitened by the snow of age its cold color ia is proof that the farea of nature are declining and the ashes rio aro the surface the hindmo sages sages who in the literature literature of that people spend long years in in contemplation arc are represented as wearing 10 lapi long bear beards d s which flow into their laps jupiter is always represented with a full and flowing beard as the accompaniment of wisdom and strength yet there are few of the great men of the world who were remarkable for their beards the grecian sages wore them but a hasty glanca glance through a portrait gallery of the great men of literature and science shows few lull full beards wore a mustache alone BO so did sir thomas browne a man mar of contemplation women and children love a full beard they delight to run their fingers through gli ift its curling masses and women know how easily a man is soothed by that sort of of caress when vivian pursued merlin intent upon stealing from him the charm of the woven paces in the depths of the forests she wooed him to notice herby her by casting herself down at his feet as he lie sat with eyes uplifted under an oak and combed his beard with her fingers and made a veil of it it which to hide her lithe form so she lulled the old roan man until his wisdom and told berthe her the secret and then the vixen weve wove the charm to bis his destruction women sometimes have beards but they are not proud of them the appearance of one on an old womans comans face marks a departure from full womanhood I witches itches are supposed to wear them man has always had a horror ofa bearded woman but the alight slight mustache on the lip of the brunette beauty is thought becoming the inhabitants of england never could be brought to the natural al adornment of their facas the regulations of the church of rome ome for the government of the clergy and in the steady adherence of english priests to their beards and their wives lay the seeds of the reformation on such threads does history hang bang on the uther other hand haud there are races w who ho cannot grow the beard and consequently dislike or neglect it the indian brave kept his face clean of hair which only grew glin gly and the first step when a white man was adopted into any tribe was removal of the hair on his face this the squaws squads effected by scraping with an oyster shell rough tear drawing shaving it brought out roots and all aad nad extirpated tir tho the hair |