New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-03-28

AND IN time, OF heard rs
Whose wisdom have been only wealth and beardl tl
Some OF these this proysrb we'll dosh At,
Which says, Bu,h natural, more hair than wiz
Ssne seem as they were starched stiff and fne
Like to ths bristles Of angry swise;
And scme to set their loves desire on edge ss
Ars cut and prunsd like to quickest hedge.
Some like spade, some like fork sonns square
Some round some ow'd like snbbls come stark hare
Some sharp. stistto-fashion, dngger-iike, S
That may, with whispering, man's eye ost-pfks.
Some with the hanmer-cut, or Roman e. 8
Their boards extravsgsnt reformed must be
Come circular, some oval in translation lfi
Some perpendicular in longitude,
Some like thickst for their erassisude;
That heights breadthH trorm square oral round
An rules geomstricsl in heards be found. =
The BARRIERS, thus. like tailors still must be
Acquainted with each cuts variety.
The beard now gradually declined and the
court of Charles I. was the last in which
even small one was cherished. After the
restoration of Charles H., mustaches or
whiskers continued, but the rest OF the face
was shaven aud in q short time the process
of shaving the entire face become universal.
A famous epigram was made BY the Scots
who visited London in 1327-wfen David.
son Of Robert Bruce, was married to Joan.
the sister Of King Edward d-arld stuck upon.
the church door of St. Peter, Stangate. It
was as follows:
"Long boards heartiesse,
Painted hoods witlesse,
Gray coats gracelesse,
Make England thriftlesse.n
DIsraeli, the elder, quotes an author, who,
in his g Elements of Education,n printed in
l640 says ~" have favorable opinion Of
that young gentleman who is curious in fine
mastaches The time he employsin adjust
ing, dressing and curling them, is no time
lost In I, L
taches the more his mind will cherish and be
animated by masculine and courageous no.
tions'
When the Emperor Charles v. assembled
the throne of Spain he had no beard It was
aot to be expected that the obsequious para.
-. who always surround monarch could
presume pr etely all the courtiers appeared
with Ia. .ntgrown tba q sh;or n
grave old men as had - die hearssd ,,ipaio a.
and who had determined ! -sw this raan-
they had lived. Many people 5, daenesr
luton with the deepest sorrow ans -;rtua
alarm and thought that every manly \. :
would be banished with the beard. 1t b. =
came at that time common saying, Wet
nave no longer souls since we have lost eur
Deards.n
Until the year 1705, the Russians had been |
amous for their length of beard But, at /
hat time, Peter the Great sent forth his /
command that not only the army, but all the /
'anks of citizens, from the mobiles to the ssrfs,
'hould shave their boards. A certain time
vas given that people might get over the
irst throes OF their repugnance after which
very man who chose to retain his beard was
@ pay a tax of one hundred roubles The
PRIESTS and the serfs were put on lower
ooting and allowed to retain theirs upon
payment of copeck every time they passed
he gate of a City.
Great discomfort arose from this law, but
II people thought it wiser to cut off their
,eards than to run the risk of ineensing
nan who would make no scruple of cutting
IT their heads. For many years very con-
iderable revenue was collected from this
ource. The collectors gave in receipt for its
ayment small copper coin, struck express
7 for the purpose, and callet the ssbearded.n
N one side it bore the figure of a nose,
louth, and mustache, with long bushy
card, surmounted by the word amoney re-
aiyed,n the whole encircled by wreath and
amped with the black eagle Of Russia. On
10 reverse it bore the date of the year. #
Every man who chose to wear a beard was
,Gsed to produce this receipt on his entry
to q town. Those who were refractory, ]
I'd refused to pay the tax, were thrown into
.ison.
During a temporary triumph gained by !,
le Dutch soldiers over the citizens of Lor-
ain in October, 1880, it became a standing !
Ike against the patriots that they shaved ,
leir faces clean Immediately, and the wits i
the Dutch army asserted that they had i
sthered mustaches enough from the denu-i t
q lips of the Belgians to stuff mattresses I
r all the sick and wounded in their hospi- Q
In the German newspapers Of August,
30, appeared an ordinance, signed BY the
ny of Bavaria, forbidding civilians, on any /,
etence whatever, to wear mustaches, and |
mmanding the police and other authorities !
arrest and cause to be shaved, the Offend | i
8 parties. Strange to say, says lie Droit, d
. Journal from which this account is taken, il
nustaches disappeared Immediately, like p
ayes from the trees in autumn; everybody
ade haste to obey the royal order and not i
q person was arrested y
8 Human felicity says your DR.. Franklin, =
s produced not so much by great pieces of h
od fortune, that seldom happen, as by lit n
J advantages that occur every day. Thus Ii
you teach q young man to shave himself il
ID keep his razor in order, you may CONTRIB p
lite more to the happiness Of his life than t,
giving him thousand guineas. This sum O
ay be soon spent--the regret only remain Y
g of having foolshly consumed it; but, in n
. other case, he escapes the frequent yexa- q
IN Of waiting for BARRIERS, and of their r r
metimes dirty fingers, offensive breaths and o
n razors; he shaves when most convenient a
him, and enjoys daily the pleasure of its D
ing done with good instruments d
A modern medical writer SAYS: Aside r,