The climax. [volume] (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1887-1897, 1890-12-31
THE LATEST IN Boards.
Fashion DEGREES Against the Point
ed Style.
An Authority Gives Some Historical Points
ON the Subject The SquareIy-
Trimmed Beard Return
ing to Favor.

1t has been decreed by the artistic
BARRIERS of Paris that the pointed beard,
which has for so long a time held
popular favor, is no longer the thing Of
fashion that it was. As has happened
before in the history Of the world, says
the New York Sun, it is to be supplant-
ed by another beard having many Of it's
characteristics, but still different in its
entirety. NJ. Henri Poujol, late of the
Paris Jockey Club, and the greatest of
American BARRIERS, gives this reason for
the changer
''The pointed beard" he said, has
certain advantages over all others, and
that is the reason why it has so long
been popular. It is a style of beard
that was invented by King Henry III.
of France. 1t requires less training and
care than any other, and, therefore, in
this busy country, where men do not
care to waste more time than is neces-
sary in attending to their personal sp-
pearance, it has naturally been widely
adopted. But because of its popularity
it must now go. The gentleman of fash
ion refuses longer to wear beard which
has become so common that every dry
goods clerk wears it. That is the reason
why it has been discarded by the high
toned gentlemen of Paris. They found
that everybody was wearing it; that it
had become too popular. They said:
This will not do. We must have some
thing more exclusive The cry is re-
echoed in this country. and the begin
ming of the end has come. The new
beard resembles the one now about to
be discarded in some respects. 1t is
like a pointed beard with the point cut
off. 1t is very thin and closely cut on
the cheeks.
ut is peculiar fact that the adoption
of this style after discariing the other
is but repetition of history. After
Henry Ill had made the pointed beard
so fashionable, the Due de Guise intro
duced the present beard. The Due de
Guise, as you will remember, was the
instigatOr of the Huguenot massacre on
st. Bartholomew day. He lived in the
sixteenth century, and was assassinated
in his forty-third year by order of Henry
III. The new beard is not likely to be
so universally adopted as the other was,
because it requires more care and at
ten ton"
There is another reason for the popu-
larity of the pointed beard which Mr..
Poujol did not refer to. That is, the
fact that 1t assists the busy man IN re-
Fiction. Unlike any other beard,
this one can be seized at its apex and
twisted and pulled and fondled without
in the slightest degree interfering with
its good appearance. It's no uncommon
thing to see a man with a pointed beard
twisting the point of it with a satisfied
air while lost in reflection.
Many prominent citizens who wear q
pointed beard have not yet, apparently
learned the decree that has doomed
it. They still go on wearing ii
as though the mandate of fashion
was not the terrible thing that every
body realizes it to be. They will undoubt
eddy all come around. however, to the
conclusion that it is better to be in style
than to be happy. In the meantime tho
fortunate gentlemen who are in the van
guard of the fashion are undoubtedly
rejoicing over that fact
The square beard which is divided IL
the center continues to hold favor will
those gentlemen who do not feel tina
their faces will permit their wearing
any other Their action is highly ap
plauded by NJ. Poujol, who lays dow
the fundamental principle that in grow
ing beard one must not go agains
nature If the latter insists upGn hav
ing the hair grow in certain directions
it is merely the part of folly to attemp
to turn them any other way. But th'
fortunate man who can train his bearC
in the way in which he wishes it to e
is not bound by any such restrictions
| He can always follow the style.