Show h f When you think of the men of ofa a hundred and more years more years ago do you think of them Invariably with whiskers whIskeR I always have From Granddads Granddad's day back some bow how they should have bave been be be- whiskered Not so 80 so We are deeply Indebted to the United Building and Loan of Ogden for tor forat i n at ib b beautiful portfolio of ot portraits of every President of ot ui United States from irom George W Cashing ton to Lyndon n J Johnson and and lt it it proves that President Abraham Abraham Ab Ab- riha raham n Lincoln who served from 1861 to 1865 1863 just one hundred years cars ago ao was the FIRST to to wear a a. beard In office This I la is a beautiful gift and we shah always treasure it The IThe lithographed portraits were based on oa on paintings and since 1865 8 photographs s i r Martin MarUn Van Buren had fuzzy sideburns halfway halfway to his tola chin So did John Quincy Adams Adama 1829 And Iid the first full met et of hair hairis JIon ison la JI laon on Lincoln I Andrew Johnson following Lincoln Lincoln Lin Lin- I coln was was- smooth Then came Ulysses S. S Grant with fairly fairly fair fair- ly Iy- short-cropped short salt call and pepper beard Rutherford Hayes next nen had whiskers clear down to tickle his chest and to make us w wonder whether he slept with the beard in or in-or or out of the covers I Almost as long and nd full was the beard of of ot James Jame A. A Garfield next In line Une and Chester A. A Arthur tapered off with a winsome mus mus- ache ache and muttonchops mutton which were were full sideburns almost meetIng meet- meet Ing the the mustache Grover Cleveland Cleveland Cleve land wore a mustache Benjamin Harrison came back with just about the most complete set of ot wh Whiskers kers of ot anybody WIllam Wiliam McKInley shaved every every ev ev- ery day and then Theodore Roosevelt and the monstrous William William William Wil Wil- liam Taft Talt ended the hirsute trend with full tull mustaches Teddy's seems seems to droop over his mouth and he surely needed a mustache cup and how long since youve you've seen one of ot those Tafts Taft's mu mui- mui mus mustache tache la Is curled up on the ends like a Gay Ninety tender bartender bar and be he must have waxed It for tor the ladles That was the end Wile Wilson on Coolidge Hoover Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt Truman Kennedy and John son are all smooth As It it t you you didn't know t Leave u us here and now express a sincere hope that the trend doesn't reverse itself If km ken run ran la in Cycles c it maT mar fc ADO t to 0 sweep back to teeth in tangles tangle And if It Lyndon B. B starts start It Birdie is going to hear from me The ladies ladles have ability to 0 follow follow tollow fol tol- low fashion trends far tar superior to that of ot suffering longsuffering men If It they want a change they can slip on a wig Why cant can't we do that with a beard Imagine Two of ot the middle- middle aged lads fads meet at a big party Well John I see eee youre you're wearing your pink whiskers this eve eve- ning Yes LeRoy and I do so eo hope you like Ilke them My wife called your wife to see which mutton-chops mutton you planned to 10 wear and I was waa oh so happy to learn that you were were choosing the pastel blue Im I'm about ready When I was a small mall boy tiny my hair was wai white It turned brown Now its it's going back to white The two-day two ne need need- d. d shave a Is black and white very ven and unexciting Wouldn't you like to see me In auburn whiskers whiskers |