Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1891-02-20
THE LATEST In Boards.
Fashion Decrees Against the Point
cd Style.
An Authority Gives Some Historical Points
ON the SuhJec Tho SquaHoiy-
Trimmed Beard Return
Ing to Favor.

It 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-
cd by another beard having many Of it's
characteristics, but still different in its
entirety. M. Henri Pouiol, late of the
Paris Jockey Club, and the greatest Of
American BARRIERS, gives this reason for
the change: u. B.. s.t... ......
1.-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 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
Jon refuses longer TO wear a beard which
has become 30 common that every dry
goods clerk wears it. That is the reason
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
heard resembles the one now about to
he discarded in some respects. It is
like . pointed beard with the point cut
of. tits very thin and closely cut on
the cheeks.
ut is peculiar fact that the adoption
Of this style after discerning the other
is but a repetition of history. After
Henry III. had made the pointed beard
sofashioDable, the Due de Guise intro
duced the present beard. The DUO de
Gufso, as you will remember, was the
instigator of the Huguenot massacre on
ST. Bartholomew's 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
40 universally adopted rs 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..
POuiol did not refer to. That Is, the
fact that 1t assists the busy man in re-
fcction. Unlike any other beard,
this one can be seized at it's apex and
twisted and pulled and fondlPd without
in the slightest degree interfering with
it's good appearance. 1t is nouncommon
thing to see a man with pointed beard
twisting the point of it with satisfied
afr while lost in reflection.
Many prominent citizens who wear a
pointed beard have not yet, apparently,
learned the decree that has doomed
it. They still go on wearing it
as though the mandate of fashion
was not the terrible thing that every
body realizes it to be. They will undoubt-
edly all come around. however, to the
conclusion that it IS better to be in style
than to be happy. In the meantime the
fortunate gentlemen who are in the van
guard Of the fashion are undoubtedly
re5Ofeing over that fact.
The square beard which is divided in
tho center continues to bold favor with
those gentlemen who do not feel that
their faces will permit their wearing
any other. Their action is highly ap.
plaudsd by NJ. Poujol, who lays down
tho fundamental principle that in grow
ing beard one mast not go against
nature. IF the latter insists upon hay
ing the hair grow in certain directions,
it is merely the part of folly to attempt
70 turn them any other way. But the
fortunate man who can train his beard
In tho way in which he wishes it to go
t. not bound by any such restrictions.
He can always follow the style, 81.