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Show FALSE WHISKERS MAY COME IN STYLE WASHINGTON. OoM 2i Instead 'of the "bee's eyebrows" or the ' llj-ard'S llj-ard'S knees." It threatens to be the "goat's beard" pretty quick. Whatever all this modern argot may mean to the rising generation ' the "goat's beard" is indicated as an advance fashion by no less official a publication than the 1'anama Canal Record, which ordinarily speaks ot marlin spikt-s, garboard strakes. and ship handlerles. Witness the following follow-ing official bulletin. "An item In the cargo of the steamship steam-ship l'ellx Tausslq. passing through the canal jn August ISth from Pacific to Atlantic ports of the United States, was -I? bales of goats' Tieards weighing weigh-ing 23,11:7 pounds Another was 21 bales oi human hair stumps weighing . 10,49; pounds." Since fashion announces the return Of tho pompoudor. it necessarily means tho return of the "rat" and i I hat accounts for the human hair stumps, but the goats' beards remain , a mystery. If a bale of goats' beards I weighs approximately 500 pounds how many goats had to be barbered ? ! Maybe the fashion designers are plotting false whiskers for one of the I now winter modes. I |