The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-04-15
MORAL EFFECT OF wHlsKERs.
a Mans Character Influenced by the
style of His Beard.

MORAL EFFECT OF WtllSKERS'
Mans Character Influenced by ths
style of His Beard.
"Amonp the men l meet at intervals
on the road is very intelligent fellow
from Boston," said drummer in rclat
ing his experience with whiskers "He
is Lbout thirty-Hve and with capacity
for raising hair on his face beyond that
Of any person / ever met. lie has fun
with it, too, and he has his whiskers
in different shape every time | meet
him, but he always comes up smiling
and catch on to the new man without
much difficulty.
Its queer about whislers, said he
the last time l saw him. Don't you
know they change the character of the
nanY
81 didn't know it and said so.
"'They do, however, he continued,
whether you know il or not Now,
I've been hairy for twenty years and in
that time I've been all sorts of men.
For instance, when / wear large, flow
ing side whisliers with mustache l
grow gradually as they do and become
quite dignified and self-important l
can't help it, don't you know. It's
whiskers oblige, as we say in French,
and when catch look at myself in a
glass as l walk along l unconsciously
swell out and strut I'm bound to do
II to match those whiskers. Then when
l cut off the mustache and run the
side whiskers alone, | never see that
mouth and chin back there but that it
makes me feel pious and l begin to as
sumo the demeanor OF minister of the
gospel. Can't help it, either, to save
my life. Sometimes l go smooth-faced
and my character oseillates between
priest and doctor, according to the tone
of the crowd Pm in. l even get boyish
sometimes and frisky when l see my
smooth, round face.
Once, for the fun of it, cut my
mustache a la prize-fghter, short and
stubby, and, do you know, before a
week was veritable tough, with my
hat cooked over my eye and my general
manner provoking a slugging match at
every turn. was anxious for a fight
all the time and only saved myself by
shaving. When wear a full, neatly.
trimmed beard l feel exactly like q
|
and my manners after n little while
fall into that rut l look it, they tel
me, and l can't help but be it If | veal
mustache alone, long and silky, fee
like gay Lothario and want to smile
at and ogle women / see. l want to bt
one of the boys, too, and whoop 1t VI
along the line. When l add an i'm
perial to the mustache l throw my
shoulders back, brace my muscles anc
assume a military air. In one or tive
of my towns l am known as colonel
for l have always worn my imperia
while there. If l run my beard dowI
TO a point in the French style l fec
J quite diplomatic and can be as slick a.
the politest of them. feel my shoul
ders shrug on the slightest provocatiol
and to all intents and purposes | am
: foreigner. If | part my whisliers in tn
} middle l am a German nobleman or
British landowner, according to IN.
: surroundings. 1t gives me hale ant
hearty, middle-aged feeling that show
, at once in my manner If the whisker
! are let grow very long l feel like pa
triarchal farmer and become quite elder
r ly and innocent in my department. An,
I so it goes through all the phases.
4 =" 4 fancy that the style of a man
e whiskers is in consonance with tn
: mans character, and that as a man
y SO will his whisIiers be. In my case
: have reversed the operation, but fee
y as l grow older and become more SCI
: tied that l shall adopt one style c
j whisllers and keep to that Even nov
am getting around to it and hav
D been wearing this close-cut full bear
a for almost six months and l don't fee
like changing it detroit Free Pres!