The morning call., 1893-03-25

WHISPERS AND MAN.
How the Hair on His Face Dominates
the Wearer's Character.


Among the men l meet at interya ais on
the road is a very intelligent fellow from
Boston," SAID drummer. HE is about
20, and with capacity for raising hair on
his face beyond that of any person | ever
met. He has fnn with il, tOo and lie has
his whiskers in different shape every time l
meet him. Now aud then don't know him,
but he always comes up smiling, and ! cate b
Oh to the new man without much difficulty.
It's queer about whiskers,' said he the
last time | saw him. Don't yuu know they
change the character of the man?'
II didn't know it and said so.
They du, however," he continued,
"whether you know 1t or not. Now, have
been hairy Tor twenty years nearly. and in
that time | have been all sorts of men. For
instance, when L wear large, flowing side
whiskers with mustache, grow gradually
as they &c, and hrcome quite digUified and
self-important. / can't help it, you know.
It's whiskers Oblige, as we sly in French,
and when ! eaten look at myself in a
glass as | walk along | nnconsciously swell
out AID strut I'm bound to do it to match
those whiSkeTs. Then when | cut off the
mustache and run the sidewhiskerS alone |
never see that mouth and chm back there
but that It makes me feel pious and begin
to assume she demean9r OF minister of the
gospel. Can't help it, either, to save my
life. Sometimes / 90 smooth faced, and my
character oscillates between priest aud
actor, according TO the one of the crowd I'm
In. | even get bOyiSh sometimes and frIsky
when | see my smooth, round face.
Once, for the fun of it, cut my mus
tacbe la prize-fghter, short and stubby,
and, do you know, before a week | was a
veritabe tough, with my hat cooked over
my eye and my general manner provoking
smuggling match at every turn. | was
anxious for a fight all the time and only
saved myself by shaving. When / wear
inl, neatly trimmed beard | feel exactly
ike banker or successful professional
man, and my manners, after little while,
fail into that rut. | look it, they tell ne,
and | can't help but be it, II | wear a mus
tache slCne. long and silky, l feel like a gay
Lothario and want to smile at and Ogle
every woman | see. / want to be one Of the
boys. toe. and whoop it up all along the
line. When / add an Imperial to the mus
tache throw my shoulders back, brace my
muscles and assume n military air. In one
OF two Of my towns am known a colonel,
for have always worn my imperial while
there.
IF run my beard down to point in the
FTeneh style l feel quite diplomatic, and
can be as slick as the politest Of them. [
feel MY shoulders shrug On the slightest
provucaiinn, and to all inlents and pur-
poses l aBi a foreigner. II l part my
whiskerS in the middle and brush them out
10 either side ! am German nob!eman or
a British landowner according 10 my sur
roundings. /; gives me a hale and hearty,
middle-aged feeling that shows at once in
my manner. If the whiSkers are let grow
very long / feel like q patriarchal farmer
and become qnite elderly and innocent in
MY department. And SO it goes through
ali the phases.
Il fancy that the style of a mans whiskers
is in cpnSonRnce with the mans character. In
my case | have reversed the operation, bul
feel as grow older and become more SET
ted that ! shall adoDt one style Of whiskers
and keep to that Even now | am getting
around to it. and have been wearing this
close-cut full beard for almost six months
and l DON'T ieel Ike changing H."