The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-03-13
THE WHISPERS AND thu MAN.
How the Hair on His Face Dominates
the Wearer's Character.

How the Hair on His Face Dominates
the Weerer's Character.
From the Detroit Free Press.
Among the men meet al intervals on
the road is a very intelligent fellow from
Boston, said drummer "He is about SIS,
and with capacity of raising hair on his
face beyond that of any person ever met.
He has fun with it, too. and he has whisk-
ers in different shape every time | meet
him. Now and then ( don't know him, but
he always comes up smiling, aud l catch on
to the new man without much difficulty
Its queer about whiskers,N said he the
last time saw him. Don't you know they
change the character OF the manW
II didn't know it. and said So
They do, however" he continued
whether you know it or not. Now. have
been hairy for twenty years nearly, and in
that time have been all sorts of men. For
instance, when wear large, flowing side
whiskers with mustache, grow gradually
as they do, and become quite dignifed and
self-important. | can't help it, you know.
| Its whiskers oblige, as we say in French,
and when l catch look at myself in a
glass as | walk along l unconsciously swell
out and strut. I'm bound 90 do il 10 match
| those whiskers. Then when I cut of che
| mustacbe and run the sidewhiskers alone |
never see that mouth and chin back there
but that il makes me feel pious, and I begin
TO assume the demeanor of e minister of the
gospel. Can't help ID, either, to save NV
life. Sometimes l 60 smooth-faced and
my character oscillates between priest and
| actor. according TO the one Of the crowd Pm
in. l even get boyiBh sometimes and risky
when | see my smooth, round face.
"Onoe. for the fun Of It, cut my mus
tache la prize-ighter, short and stubby
and, do you know, before a week | was a.
verirable tough, with roy hat cooked over
my eye and my general manner provoking
a smuggling match at every turn ! was
anxious for a fight all the time, and only
saved myself by shaving. When wear
full, neatly trimmed beard | feel exactly
like banker or a successful professional
man, and my manners after a little while
fell into that rut. look it, they tell me, aud
| can't help but be it. If l wear musfache
alone, long and silky, feel like a gay
Lothario, and want TO smile at aud oRle
every woman [ see. want to be- one of the
boys, too, and whoop it up all along the
line. When | add an imperial to the mus
tache l throw my shoulders back, brace
my muscles. and assume military air. In
one or two of my towns | am known as
colonel, for l have always were my imperial
| while there. -
''If run my beard down to a point In
! the French style, | feel quite diplomatic
| ana can De as SICK as the politest OF them
I feel my shoulders shrug on the slightest
! provocatiOn. and to all intents and purposes
l am foreigner. II part my whlskers in
the middle and brush them out to the other
side, am German nobleman or a British
! land owner, according to my surroundings.
IL gives me hale and hearty, middle-sged
! feeling chat shows at once ia nv manner
! II the Whiskers are let grow very long feel
| like patrtarchal farmer and become quite
| elderly aad Innocent in my department
! And so it goes through all the phases
Il fancy that the style of a man g whiskers
Is in consonanoe with the mans character,
and that as man Is so will his whIskers be.
In my case have reversed the operation,
but feel as grow older and become more
settled that l shall adopt one style of whis-
kers and stick to that Even now / am
getting around 70 il and have been wearing
this close-out full beard for almost six
months, ana / don't feel like changing it."