Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-09-06
Representatives and Senators and
Their Hirsute Ornaments.
THE BEARD IN CONGRESS
Some Mustachcs That Are Really Stun.
ming-Men Who Shave Their Upper Lip
Only, and Others Whose Masterful
Faces Are Shaved Smooth.

the poorest affair of its kind in the House. 1t
is rather undergrown, stubbly and turned down
at the corners of the mouth; in fact, its owner
would be q better looking man without it. All
the same, to most men the mustache is
undoubtedly great adornment The average
handsome man Of your acquaintance loses all
his good looks when he shaves his upper lip
There was a woman once who cried bitterly
and refused to be comforted when her husband
came home one day without his flowing
mustache. She said that she would have
nothing to do with him, not being able to
recognize him at all as the man she had
married.
Abner Taylor Of Illinois has one Of the hand
soonest mustaches in the House. Clements
OF georgia 10 the possessor of an equally fine
one. Likewise wiry, black-eyed Peters of
Kansas whose mustache is long and of the hue
OF the ravens wing. Their mustaches alone
would make Price, the Louisiana millionaire
McComas of Maryland and McAdoo of New
Jersey handsome men. All these, be it under
stood, wear no other hair on their faces beside
the mustache. Indeed that seems to be bv far
the most popular style of hrsute decoration in
the House. AS your owe wanders over the
assemblage of legislators sitting row upon row
at their desks as if SO many schooboys. with
Speaker Reed for a teacher and each pupil
taxing his turn to recite YOU notice that a ma
Jority OF the members have mustaches and are
clean shaved otherwise. With the younger
ones this Is tho almost universal fashion, though
Henry Cabot Lodge of Boston, dilettante soci-
ETY. man AID Trainer OF the famous Force BILL
Is a notable exception. with his short light
brown beard usually trained to point.
THE HEAVY DROPPING KIND.
There is certain style of mustache, much
affected by sporting men, which is very full
and heavy and droops over the corners of the
mo xf,,l
serve good many of this sort as YOU look
about the House. George Smith of Illinois has
an ideal one. Boutelle of Maine is the owner
OF fine specimen and likewise Dudley Cole
man OF Louisiana. David B. Henderson of
Iowa trains his mustache somewhat in this
way, as do also Belhnap Of Michigan, who has
an unusually large one; Wade of AIssouri-his
Is white-and Hansbrough from North Dakota
Hemphlll OF South Carolina, Jim Reilly, of
whom they speak SO highly in Pottsville, Pa.
where he comes from, and Wilson Of West Vir-
ginia Reilly's mustache has a more accent
uated droop than any other mustache in the
House. All the same, the mustache of Benton
Mcmillan of Tennessee has a peculiarly fero-
cious droop Of its own that bellies the mildness
OF its proprietor's disposition. On the whole,
however, Harry Bingham from Philadelphia
has the iercest mustache in Congress, though
it is not very big. 1t is always pulled straight
out horizontally and has an express of it's
own.
Judging from appearances, Benjamin Frank
lin Shively OF Indiana must expend more wax
upon his mustache than any of his fellow Rep
resentatives. The ornament is petered out so
to speak, into} ends four or five inches long,
which are trained upward. One of the prettiest
mustaches In the House is blonde one that is
the property Of Walter l. Hayes of Iowa. Mudd
Of Maryland is another of the many who turn
their mustaches up instead Of down. Follow
ing the same fashion are seen John F. Andrew.
who halls from Boston, and his colleague
Greenhalge from Lowell, Mass. also Geissen-
hainer OF New Jersey; Turner, the good-looking
iceman from New York city; Magner, the
youngest member Of the House, who wears his
hair pompadour fashion and is newly wed;
Amos Cummings, the journalist; Kilgore OF
Texas; Fred Lansing of WATERFOWL who has
the handsomest mustache. in the New York
delegation, blonde and beautifully trained, and
McClammy OF North Carolina, celebrated for
his carelessness as to dress, whose upper-lip
decoration Is long pointed and satanic, in &C.
cordance with his appearance. But the devil
Is handsome man, you know, for once he was
an angel Add to these dozens more. all Of
whom wear only mustaches and no other beard
MINUS Boards.
Judging from your own observation as you
let your eve wander over the House there ia
something to be said against as we'll as for the
mustache. 1t 10 undeniably decorative, mainly
because most men have bad mouths and Il
serves to hide them more or less. but 1t also
hides the expression OF the face and goes far to
make all men look alike. Look at any man who
wears no mustache and see how much moro ex
pressive his face is very naturally. too, mas
much as the mouth is the feature of expression
and changes with each emotion Suppose Mai
Mckinley were to grow smustache, three-q
tiers OF tho impressiveness of his Napoleonic
face, with its powerfully drawn mouth, would
be gone. Judge Perkins of Kansas has another
OF those faces the tremendous power of which
Unrl hn inc lo.s
Of any eort. Here and there about the floor
you notice sprinkling Of clean faces amidst
the parterre OF boards and mustaches There
ID young Ciunie Of California and Charley
O'Neill, who halls from the Quaker city. Also
another Pennsylvania man, Buckalew. a new
man from Illinois named Williams, a second
Williams from Ohio, Milliken of Maine, Gen.
Forney OF Alabama, Goodnight of Kentucky
Henderson Of North Carolina, Arnold one Of
Rhode Islands two Representatives, Judge
Cooper Of Ohio. the giant Stewart of Texas,
and one-legged Atkinson o. Pennsylvania
These are about all the clean-shaven men
in the House, and their faces are mostly such
az attract the eye.
There are few Representatives who wear a
goatee with their mustaches. Abner Taylor of
the mustsche-only class. So has Grimes Of
Georgia and Spooner, the other Rhode Island
man, Roger @. Mills and Martin of Texas,
SEVERE STYLE
A beard for the chin only, as an accountant
ment to the mustache is . favorite fashion in the
House. The foremost exponent of that style il
Gibson of Maryland the beauty of the lower
branch Of the national legislature His pul-
chritude would be seriously impaired should he
lose his superb mustache and nearly white tuft
beneath his under lip. Dockery Of Missouri
follows this form, as do also Catchiups and
Morgan of Mississippi, Moore Of New Hamp-
shire, Skinner Of North Carolina, Cultivate
aud Kennedy OF Ohio, Laidiaw and Mccarthy
OF New York. Lanham Of Texas Buchanan Of
Virginia, Barwig Of Wisconsin and twenty
others.
There are not very many men who consider
that the style Of wearing the beard without the
mustache is becoming, and yet there are quite
q number OF Representatives who do it. Can
non OF Illinois, chairman of the committee on
appropriations wears q beard and shayes his
upper lip every morning. The scraping pro-
cess ought not to be very severe torture with
him-at all events he owns but one razor. Nc
kenna OF California and Gambler of Georgia
pursue the same fashion. Also Conger of Iowa
Heard OF Missouri, Campbell OF New York.
Stewart OF Vermont and Hare of Texas.
NrNDERs WITH WHISPERS.
Whiskers are scarce in the House, Asamat.
ter Of fact the fashion for Wearing them has
almost gone out entirely within the last few
years, and 80 but few pairs of them are found
among the members. Elijah A. Morse of
Massachusetts, the stove-polish man, has the