Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-08-20

the hair on the head, and would not shave
either until they had slain an enemy, which
custom is curiously enough not unlike that
of our late enemy, Cetewayo, who would
not permit his subjects to marry until they
had washed their spears" The ancient
Britons, according to Cesar, wore only
their mustache. He speaks, however, OF
the Kentish Britons only. 1t is certain
that the Anglo. Saxons, on their arrival IN
Britain, and for considerable time after
wards. wore boards. The Normans not
only shaved their own boards, but COM
PEELED the conquered to follow their ex.
ample.
AS REGARDS ECCLESIASTICS,
The discipline touching the boards has
been different at different periods. The
Greek and Roman churches have long dis
puted about the beard While the Roman
lists have at different times practiced
shaving, the Greeks, on the contrary, have
strenuously defended the cause of long
boards. Leo III. "a. D. 1859 was the first
shaved Pope. Pope Gregory ". after the
lapse of only thirty years, Illuminated a
bull against bearded priests. In the twelfth
century the prescription of the boards ex-
tended to the laity. Pope Honorious Ill,
to disguise his disfgured lip, allowed his
beard to grow. Henry |. of England was
so much moved by sermon directed
against his beard that he resigned it to the
barber. Frederick Barbarossa is said to
have been equally tractable.
In the reign of Francis l. of France the
right of the clergy to wear their boards
was called in question, and in 1861 the tri-
i 49, t,a t~ar m
sacerdotal modesty.
Louis XIII. assembled the throne beard
less, and his courtiers, except the Duke
Tully, Immediately reduced their boards
to small tuft of hair under the lower lip.
Exceptionally
LONG Boards
Have always attracted a good deal of at
tention, and history records many IN
stances of this kind. Rauber Won Talberg,
German Knight and Councillor of Max
imilian II. ID. 1879, rejoiced in beard
which reached to his feet, and from there
again to his waist. John Mayo, a cele-
brated painter of the sixteenth century,
who accompanied Charles V. in his cam
paign, had beard that, although he was
tall man, would hang upon the ground
Wl6n he SlOOu uplISub u6 hOlS ~, tuSlC-
fore, fastened to his girdle.
George Killingworth, sent by Queen
Mary as one of her agents in 1865 to Gar
Joan, the Terrible, is said to have had a
beard five feet two inches long. In the
olden time, when every part of the body
had it's prize, the beard was valued at 20
shillings, large sum for the time, while
the loss of leg was only estimated at II
shillipgs.
We can easily imagine that at periods
when the beard and whiskers were looked
upon as ornamental, false boards were sub
stituted for the genuine article. Pietro ~.
of Aragonia (l35D, found himself in
duced to prohibit his Catalonian subjects
from wearing false boards. But the most
singular substitute is the golden beard,
which, Chrysostemus says, was worn by
the Kings of Persia. Suetonius says the
same of Caligula, the Roman Emperor.
According to Andreas Favyn
THE KINGS OF FRANCE
OF the first dynasty wore boards entwined
with gold thread. Duke Renatus, of Lor.
raine, was the last, and it is related that
he wore at the funeral of Charles of Bur.
gundy, who died at Nancy in AT, a beard
of gold thread hanging down to his girdle.
As Jupiter was sometimes adorned with a
golden beard, the phrase Gureanl barban
habere was equivalent to saying DEAN esse.
Boards were at various times taxed in
England Thus we read in "Notes and
Queries that the Sheriff at Canterbury
paid IS 4i for wearing a beard. liz the
first year of Elizabeth every beard above
fortnight's growth was taxed IS Cd; but
the law was too absurd to be enforced.
The duty imposed upon boards by Peter
the Great was a ruble-about IS. This tax
met with a fate similar to that of Eliza,
beth's, and was soon cancelled.
The development of the beard, as well as
the hairiness OF the body, differ not merely
serve, in families OF the same race. In
Europe, and portion of Asia, boards pre-
vail until we go beyond India, when grad
ually boards disappear, as in the case with
the Siamese, Chinese and japanese. Ne
groes have scanty boards. The Papuaus,
who are nearly as black, and are allied ii
race to the negroes, have well-developed
boards, and so have the inhabitants of the
FIJI Islands. The American aborigines are
nearly beardless, while. regarding the
tribes of North American, Catlin states
eighteen out of twenty are by nature
beardless. The scantiness or
ABUNDANCE OF THE BEARD
Is not always in proportion to the genera
development of pilosity in race. There
are some races with an abundant crop o.
hair on the head, whose boards are scantily
| furnished. Such, for instance, are tn,
I o,,J haUs
no mustaches, and yet well developed
beard, such as the Australians. Neverthe
less the Amos, in whom of all human raceI
the hair system is most developed, posses
also exuberant boards. The bearded
races are the Mongoloid and American
races, who have generally smooth bodies
and limbs. In the African negroes the
beard grows in tufts, leaving bare spaces
between these. Among many races whose
boards are scanty prevails the custom o
pulling out the hairs in the chin. Tit
beard is also scanty in the hyberborear
race, such as the Lapps, Samoides, Green
landers, Esquimaux, etc. In India thu
beard is common enough among the Brah
minis and the black population of thu
Himalaya
The Malays arc more bearded than tn
preceding races. The Papuans appear t.
have boards almost as abundant as tn
Europeans. The New Caledonians ar
also described to have good boards, though
the mustaehe is said to be scantily de
veloped among them. On the whole, i
does not appear that the distribution o
bearded and beardless races is intimatel.
connected with climatic conditions. Gen
orally speaking, the beard appears first OIL
the upper lip, then on the cheeks, and las
of all on the chin.
THE BARBER.
At the beginning OF this century tn
barber with his razor was an indispensable
person. Any one with a beard was re
garded either as Turk or Jew. In
memoir of Lord Rokeby, published in 1898
we read that his beard forms one of tn
most conspicuous traits OF his person, ant
that he is the only peer, and perhaps tn
only gentleman of Great Britain and Ire
land so distinguished. But, Independent
of his beard, Lord Rokeby was a remark
able character. He was sort of precurso
of Sir Wilfred Lawson as a long. bearde'
"teetotaler," very abstemious, and no
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