Arizona weekly citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Ariz) 1880-1901, 1891-02-21
THE LATEST In Boards.
Fashion DEGREES Against the Point
ed Style.
An Authority Gives Some Historical Point:
on the subject The squarsly-
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 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 its
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 change:
''The pointed beard" he said, ''has
certain advantages over all others, and
that is the reason why it has so long
been popular. 1t 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 ap-
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 a 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
uinor Of tho opd hoe cOpoa Tho nam
beard reserl bles the one now about to
be discarded in some respects. 1t is
like pointed beard with the point cut
off. 1t is very thin and closely cut on
the cheeks.
1T is peculiar fact that the adoption
of this style after discariing the other
is but repetition of history. After
Henry III. 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
tention."
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-
Election. Unlike any other beard,
this one can be seized at it's apex and
twisted and pulled and fondled without
in the slightest degree interfering with
its good appearance. 1t is no uncommon
thing to see a man with pointed beard
twisting the point of it with satisfied
air while lost in reflection.
Many prominent citizens who wear
POINTED board nave not yet, apparently,
earned NJ decree that has doomed
?. The still go on wearing it
= tho~oh the mandate of fashion
=: To- T. terrible thing that every
DIR i2e- to be. They will undoubt-
~ all me around. however, to the
-iuSi ~ that it is better to be in style
r. ta happy. In the meantime the
tan:t .-cr tlemen who are in the van
En- fashion are undoubtedly
w that fact
beard which is divided in
~-'utinues TO hold favor with
= vion who do not feel that
~ill permit their wearing
IA, ir action is highly ap-
81 PouiOl. who lays down
10y. tai principle that in grow
-r. : no must not 20 against
n.y. ID" latJ insists upon hav-
~f' ';;;r rrow in certain directions,
-. ~ re rart OF folly to attempt
>, .- .'se"i any "ihcr way. But the
s-.---:: Ian y ho can t~air his beard
f,.s =: i.i,.i. !,.' wishes it to 90
d, not %. ud by any such restrictions.
lie can always follow the style.