St. Paul daily globe., 1889-06-30
Ancient Goats and Laws
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monuments; and especially on an an
tique sarcophagus, which is one OF the
ornaments of the Vatican. The Jews,
with the Orientals, generally seem to
have accepted the tradition as a law.
The beard was cherished and sacred
thing. Israel brought it safe out Of the
bondage of universally shaven Egypt,
and the beard was the outward and WIS.,
ible sign of true man. To rudely
touch his beard was to cruelty asSail
his dignity.
Although the Jews carried their
boards with them from their bondage
in Egypt, the Egyptians were not in
sensible of the significance OF that ap-
pendage. Accordingly, Ill the days of
high festival, they wore false boards as
assertions of their dignity in the scheme
of creation, and they represented their
male deities with boards .'tip-tilted'' at
the end. Herodotus, maligned as the
second father of lies, has pertinently
devoted pages to this subject.
The first sultan who broke through
the orthodox oppression of beardedness
was Selim l. Q512-2O). At this terrible
shock to the body of the faithful, the
high priest alone dared demonstrate
with so absolute monarch.
Selim put aside the remonstrance with
Joke, 81 have cut off my beard" he
said, sin order that my vizier may have
nothing to lead me by!'
The kings of Servia were the happy
and vain possessors of boards which
they
TIED UP IN PLAITs
with gold thread, and the princes of
Ninevah went abroad with boards
curled and oiled, like the Assyrian bulls
themselves. 1t has been said that in
Asia wars have been proclaimed in al
legged grievances connected with shay
ing.
If we turn to Europe and begin with
the classical times, we may remember
that the Greeks and Romans, once
styled as barbarians, or bearded, un-
shaven savages, all nations who were
out of the pale of their own customs
and religions. Nevertheless, the young
Roman, anxious for beard and NOUS
tache, used to apply the household oil
on his cheeks and chin, in order to
bring thereon that incipient fringe
which would entitle him to be called
'.barbatulus." The full furnished man
was "barbatus."
The first BARRIERS came to Rome from
Sicily about 800 B. c., when the Ro-
mans began applying the word trans
lated, "barbarous' to the rude men and
manners of the early ages and of the
beard universal.
Numa Pompilius, the great founder
of laws, wore majestic beard of flow
ing hair depending from his chin. In
the days of Emperor Hadrian and the
last days of the Republic, boards were
worn short and clipped, and the Roman
swell. to be in fashion, was required to
wear his beard short and pointed after
what, in later years, was known as the
Nandyke beard. Even now. in our own
city, it is noticeable feature of young
college graduates, that they attempt at
cultivating a Nandyke style of beard,
where there is yet only a suspicion Of
enough hair On his face to stuff set of
pillows, and old Diogenes was the
father of long boards. 1t is said of him
that his wanderings for an honest man
did not give him time to get shaved.
However, Virgil and Pliny wrote upon
boards. One Roman emperor, Julian,
wrote work on the subject, which is
commonly supposed to be as fierce de-
nunciation against boards as King
James BLAST was against tobacco;
but Julian, In his 'Misepagon," or
cally on the length of his nails,-with
moss-agate tips-allow one to add. Per-
sius associated wisdom with the beard.
He designated Socrates by the term
"Magister Barbatus'-a fitting praise
to the old philosopher. The goat proves
how falIaclous the emblematical truths
and superstitions about the beard are
Ever since the
X BILLY GOAT MADE ITS DEBUT
on the stage of nntural history it has
been attached to a "goatea," and human
goats. with billy goats, are numbered
with the deer brethren of our great COM
monwealth. Alexander the Great
abolished the boards of his soldiers for a
strategic reason-"that they gave han
dies to their enemies whereby to lay
hold of them" Of course, boards ex-
listed before BARRIERS, and the Europeans,
like all other people, were originally a
bearded people. The beard is more
general now in Germany than else
where abroad, and Germany affords an
example of the longest beard known, in
the person of Johan Mayo, whose
hears he stood A' upright i still a' trsiled Sned
on the ground. Germany knows him as
John the Bearded just as it does one of
its own emperors as Frederick Barba-
rossa. When Peter the Great levied a
tax on Russian boards, he was only fol-
lowing precedent which once existed
in England. Noble chins were assessed
at rouble, and your commOner chin
at copek. Boards are not now valued
In Russia. He who wears one seems to
acknowledge that he has no very high
place in the social scale. Boards were
time of Philip v, who was unable to
cultivate one. The dudes living during
his reign affected the in6rmitY, until,
of course, it was fashionable
to go about with pumpkin
face. When the Portuguese ad-
miral, Juan de Castro, borrowed
a thousand pistales from the city of
Goa, he lent in pledge one of his whis-
kerS, saying: "All the gold in the
world cannot equal this natural orna.
ment of my valor." If the "whiskers"
of our modern ''Juan de ICastro Lousy
Trampos'' would make such good Sc
curity, that raggedly sandaled individ-
ual would have more money than some
people have nerve. The hairs from a
French kings beard, under the waxen
seal stamped in royal letter or charter,
were supposed to
ADD GREATER SECURITY
for the fulfillment of all promises made
in the document itself. In course of
time fashion complimented majesty; a
certain sort of moustache was called
''rOydle, anu tlle llltle luIG OF Gurnlp
sprouts beneath the lower lip was
known by the term ''imperlale.' The
Greek church advocated the beard and
the Catholic church denounced it. Of
the popes at Naples, from Clemont VII.
to Alexander WILL, all we're bearded.
Giovanni di Medici, Leo x, was always
cIose-shaven, and boards were
not to be seen on the chin of
LeO's clerics and cOurtiers. This
has probably been the rule with the
Catholic priesthood ever since. In the
thirteenth century heards ara said tn