Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-03-16
A nIRsuTs sIoN MANUAL.
By His Massashe<. ceat.e and sapoieoa the Barber Judges Man.


 By Ills Massashe~. Geai.e and Napoleon
 the Barber Judges Man.
 You don't mean to insinuate that
 you can tell what sort of fellow
 you have to deal with simply by
 looking at his bearis" qneriei the customer fn the chair. feeling of the
 pimpie on his nose. about whose
 safety he is always particularly con | siderate
 That Is just the meaning wish
 to convey to your understanding,
 said the learned barber. in giving a
 graceful sweep with the razor down
 the customers throat ''Of course
 don't nisconstrue my wordsl don't
 intend to say that my judgment is tnfallible. but merely that 1t would
 hold true in the generality of cases,
 say in four cases out of five. For this thing Is just like any other science
 --there are exceptions to the rule.
 But l do say that the fact of a man wearing a mustache or a Burnside. whislsers or goatee, Moses Handy or Napoleon. Henri Quatre or a beard a Ia Boulanger, and again the peculiar cut and growth of each, like wise the manner of his wearing and caring for if, Is plain indication of his character.
 Well, I think that's going too far" chiIned in the victim in the chair.
 No. it isn't You'll see in minute how true it is First. let us take it by nationahties. Look at the aver age Englishman-his mutton chop whislxers lending him precise, de- coruus air. the air of a man to whom reputation is everything, who is rather circurnspect and a regular churchgoer Such Is the beard and such Is the man Look at the French manl Either with a Napoleon, in which case you may put him down as military man or one of military instincts. or else with beard cut a h Boulanger. when you may be cer- tain be belongs to the la-de-dah fel- lows
 Now take in the German-either a heavy mnstache, waxed or twisted to ferocious point, that's an old soldier; or full beard. that's theun- pnetentious citizen of thrift and in- tegrity Lastly. look at the Ameri- canl Nearly always the style of his beard also tells the style of man he is If with a neatly curled mustache he is an energetic, go ahead fellow; if with goatee he is of the old school; If with new fangled beard of Euro pean importation he is liberal and broad in his views. etc. You can nearly always tell"
 And thus you actually judge a man by the cut of his bearif''
 ''Yes-with due regard for other external circumstances Thus it is quite true that a man who is very particular about his shave and about the exact twist of his mustache is man of precise ideas, a man who i' orderly. punctilious and not easily satisiied. If he likes his mustacha elevated at an angleof sixty degrees put him down as a man of buoyans If he likes 1t dropping he is of rather melancholy disposi. ton.
 If he likes his beard always con- forming strictly to the fashion, can put him down as man anxious to be in the social swim and little vain and ccnceited as well. A man who wants his beard of the clerical cut most likely is pious and loves his fellow men. And thus might goon yeneralizing. With now and then an exception, these observations of mine have corresponded with the iacts, so that may claim to be an sxpert in the line of reading mans character by his beard. ."-Chicago Herald.