The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1854-04-26
Revolution against Shaving.

Man is funny fellow. and here is nc
accounting for his whims l. japan he
dyes his teeth black, for the Insufficient
reason that dogs have white teth and
in England and Ireland he derives lis
face Of its natural appcndagc, ornament
and safeguard, for no reason at all ?
Surely there is no accounting ir tastes
in one corner Of the world W wear n
wooden decoration in our noses in So
cond, we ilatten the forehead j third
We tattoo aud in n fourth, we shave
Man is q funny animal, wLcthern n Ton.
gataboo or Thread-nectlc street at ma.
tutinal lip-service beside the fey. or
plating his pig-tail by the Eng-I[u.
What pain he takes to make ims.lf a
little different from what Cd made
HIM! Our own sapiout progclt tors like
wise, struttcd about in quens; they
simpered in patched faces, powdered
their heads, and rcioiccl in aobble"-
which, be 1t known to you, g,atlc read
or, was a compound Of soap ald -four, to
give density and consistency 70 the afcre-
said queue. Another generation remov-
cd tho hair Of the scalp and substitut ed
wig from the Wolch goat The much
lauded march of intel .otD has kicked
over the powder-box al wobble.pot it
discountenancos patcllo and has laid a
sacrlleglous hand on tails-but the
razor Is still between fingers. We
laugh at our forolather taste for bald
head, but we graycy c.erish their weak
ness, for bald chin.
All those grotesQue I'D artificial fash
ions originated in naturl deformitios. at
time when princes ar trarilv let the
mode, and courtiers rcected them as
their UHibrdS. 1t is u natter of history
that there was time i England when
one shoulder higher thr the other was
all the rage, because IL court. from q
feeling of delicate attelion to the mon
arch initiated his phys al defect. Pow.
der originated in Polar where tho dis
case popularity known s. scald head
was prevalent. Patch, we're rather
coarsely devised to ceal scorbutic
blotehes on the countennce; and shay
ing Was only bareiaced mpathy with a
certain continental mon,ch deficient iu
the outward and yiziJlc'ign of moscu-
line dignity,
King David's ambassadors, when they
lost their boards, hid themselves for
shame until they grew aAin but Queen
Nictora's lieges 90 fort daily without
shame or remorse for tlir self.imposed
mornings emaseulation There rises be.
fore US this moment To-, vista of great
historical portraits all Il more ennohled
by looking natural. Bra the APOSTLES
to the Vaudois pastors, I'D the monks
of ST, Bernard, from Plao and Socrates
TO Shakspere and Jean llul. from Brian
Born or the Black Princ down to Ma.
pier and Guyon, the boil aud wise, aud
true, appear like men as III as act like
them. But the bucksp and bloods.n -
the " Maccaronies" and hobawks" of the
feeble eighteenth century have run their
race, like their high hcel, ana big.wies,
and score of other artucialities. The
shavers, too, have nearly lad their day
and pretty mornings wrk they have
sometimes made Of It : Alopular storm
is rapidly rising against g. razor Ply
slclans are insisting on th sanitary BEN
ehts OF moustaches and lard in this
humid climate of consum,ion; artists
are demanding that man sail no longer
d'yerge from nature, and es6gure him
self in obedience to stupit custom. The
mind is influenced by exteaals adhere