The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1891-02-05
THE LATEST In Boards.
Fashion DEGREES Against the Point
ed Style.
An Authority Gives Some Historical Points
on the Subject The Squarely-
Trimmed Beard Return
Ing to Favor.

1t has been dccrccd by the artistic
BARRIERS of Paris that the pointed beard.
which has for so long Q time held
| popular favor, is no longer the thing of
! fashion that !, was. AS has happened
/ before in the History of the world, says
/ the New York san. it is to be supplant-
! ed by another lizard having many of its
characteristic. but still different in its
entirety. n cnri Pouiol, late of the
Paris Joclscy III, and the greatest OF
American barbnrs gives this reason for
the change:
''The point i : ard he said, has
certain advantages over all others, and
that is the rca "a Why it has so long
been popular 1t is style of beard
that was invented by King Henry III.
of France Il &C. uircs less training and
care than any other, and, therefore, in
this busy countr- whore men do not
care to vase lacrv limo than is neces-
sary in attendur 10 their personal APP
pearancc, it las naturally been widely
adopted, But because of its popularity
it must now 90, The gentleman of fash
ion refuses longer to wear beard which
has become a1 common that every dry
goods clerk years L. That is the reason
why it has been discarded by the high
toned gentleman of Paris. They found
that everybody WAS wearing it: that it
had become too popular. They said:
This will not do Wen have some
thing moro 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. tits worry thin and closely cut on
the cheeks.
ut is peculiar fact that the adoption
of this style artcr discarling tho other
is buta repetition of history After
Henry III. had made the pointed beard
so fashionable, the Due dc Guso intro
ducod the present beard The Due de
Guisc. as you win remember, was the
instigator of the IIuguenot 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 now heard Il not likely to be
50 universally adopted as tho 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 its apex and
twisted and pulled and fondlcd without
in the slightest degree interfering with
its good appearance. tits no uncommon
thing to see man with pointed beard
twisting the point Of it with u satisfied
air 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
rs though the mandate OF fashion
was not the terrible thing that every
body realizes it TO be. They will undoubt-
adly all como 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 arc undoubtedly
over that fact.
The square beard which is divided in
the center continues to hold favor with
those gentlemen who do not feel that
their faces will permit their wearing
any other. Their action is highly APP
plaudcd by NJ. Poujol, who lays down
the fundamental principle that in grow
ing heard one must not go against
nature. If the latter insists upon hav-
ing the hair grow in certain directions,
it is merely the part of folly to attempt
10 turn them any other way. But the
fortunate man who can train his beard
in the way in which he wishes it to go
IS not bound by any such restrictions.
He can always follow the style,