Show BEWARE OF BEARDS Is the number of bearded worn women e t increasing it if so not for the reasons given by paris doctors fir dr john A r professor of pathology path olgy and bacteriology at the university of pennsylvania believes the french physicians according accordine to recent dispatches des patches observe imus caphes and beards are Inc increasing alarmingly among women they blame cigarette smoking and aad alcohol drinking they assert statistics of 0 hospitals show 11 per cent ot ol ahe the inmates have an abnormal growth of hair on their lips and chins and that 27 per cent of oe the women inmates in insane asylums are bearded and have mustaches dr kolmer said such statements sound queer arid and I 1 would hardly care to take them very seriously women are more out in ili the open these days and if there Is any in crease in the growth of 0 hair on theli faces it Is probably the result of exposure thus we fina that in ith summer when short sleeved dresses dreise are worn there seems to be riot niort hair on the arms there Is a tendency tor for it to disappear in the winter As tar far as I 1 know the increased habit ot of smoking and using alcomo would have no influence dr ralph baernstein who holds hold the chair of dermatology at the Ha hahnemann linemann hospital was amused at the observations of the french medical men what tommyrot he commented if there Is any relation between the growth of hair anz the use of al cohol cobol he asked why dont bale baie headed men who are fond of cock tails develop luxuriant tresses nature never intended women tc have downy facial growths ano anc you cant produce them either by al cobol or cigarettes dr bernstein said the amount 0 feminine facial hair Is dependent ot oi type dr joseph klauder associate pru pro fessor of dermatology at the grad aate school of medicine university sit of pennsylvania said 1 I have no observed any increase in the growal of hair on faces 1 I doubt there has been such at ai increase certainly there Is no se sc entitle basis for suming assuming such an increase Is the result of cigarette smoking or the use of alcohol 1 1 tilt growth of feminine facial hair is a ar ill understood phenomenon it Is I 1 sex characteristic intimately asso elated with complex changes in flit IK body |