The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1891-04-02
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.

It 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-
cd by another beard having many of its
characteristics, but still different in its
entirety. M. Henri Poujol, late OF the
Paris Jockey Club, and the greatest of
American BARRIERS, gives this reason for
the change:
'sThe pointed beard" he said, 'has
certain advantages over all others, and
that is the reason why it has so long
been popular. 1t 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
ahis busy country, where men do not
care to waste more time than is neces-
eary in attending to their personal APP
ncarance, it has naturally been widely
adopted. But because of its popularity
1t must now go. The gentleman of fash
ion refuses longer to wear beard which
has become so common that every dry
Foods clerk wears it. That Is the reason
why IL has been discarded by the high
toned gentlemen Of Paris. They found
that everybody was wearing it; that 1t
had become too popular. They said:
This will not do. Wemust 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
lie discarded in some respects. 1t is
like q 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 discerning the other
is but repetition of history. After
Henry III. had made the pointed beard
fashionable, the Due do Guise intro
duced the present beard. The Due dc
,,lise, as you will remember, was the
lastigator OF the Huguenot massacre on
|, Bartholomew day. He lived in the
nxteenth century, and was assassinated
ii his forty.third year by order OF Henry
ILL., The new beard is not likely to be
20 universally adopted as the other was,
because 1t requires more care and at
tcntion."
There is another reason for the popu-
larity Of the pointed beard which Mr.
poujol did not refer to. That is, tho
fact that it assists the busy man in re-
lection. Unlike any other beard
this one can be seized at its apex and
twisted and pulled and fondled without
in the slightest degree interfering VIII
is good appearance. 1t is no uncommon
hing to see man with pointed bear(
twisting the point of it with a satisfied
air while lost in reflection.
Many prominent citizens who wear ;
pointed beard have not yet, apparently
learned the decree that has doomed
it, They still 60 on wearing Il
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 tn
conclusion that it is better to be in styl
than to be happy. In the meantime tn
fortunate gentlemen who are in the van
guard Of the fashion are undoubtedl,
rejoicing over that fact.
The square beard which is divided II
the center continues to hold favor wit
those gentlemen who do not feel tina
their faces will permit their wearin
any other. Their action is highly ar
plauded by M. Poujol, who lays dow
the fundamental principle that in grow
ing beard one must not go agains
nature. If the latter insists upon ha,
ing the hair grow in certain directions
it is merely the part OF folly to attemp
to turn them any other way. But tn
fortunate man who can train his bear
in the way in which he wishes it to g
is not bound by any such restrictions
He can always follow the style.