The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-04-20
MORAL EFFECT or WHISPERS.

1888 OnokootSr Anuoonoe0 BY the
Style Of His Beard.
Among the mon meet at intervals
on the road is . very intelligent fellow
from Boston, said drummer in relat,
ing his experience with whiskera sHe
y about thirty-five and with capacity
Tor raising hair on his face beyond that
OF any person I ever met. He has fun
with it too and he has his whiskers
In different shape every time I meet
MIN. but he always comes up smiling
and catch on to the new man without
much difficulty.
It's queer about whiskers, said he
the last time saw him. Don't Won
know they change the character of the
man? -.
II didn't know it and said so.
They do, however, he continued,
whether you know it 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 whiskers nth q mustache 1
grow gradually as they do and become
quite dignified and self-important
can't help it, don't you know. It's
whiskers oblige. as we say in French,
and when catch lsok at myself in a
glass as walk along I unconsciously
swell out and strut I'm bound to do
1t to match those whiskers Then when
cut of the mustache and run the
side whiskers alone, I never see that
mouth and chin back there but that it
makes me feel pious and begin to as
h R = A.
gospel Can't help it, either, to save
my life. Sometimes 90 smooth-faced
and my character oscillates between
priest and doctor, according to the tone
OF the crowd I'm in. even get boyish
sometimes and frisky when SOC my
smooth. round face.
Once, for the fun of it, 1 cut nv
mustache la prize-dghter, 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 smuggling match at
every turn. was anxious for a fight
all tho time and only saved myself by
shaving. When wear a full, neatly
trimmed beard I feel exactly like a
banker or successful professional man
and my manners after little while
fall into that rut look it, they tell
me, and I can't help but be it. If wear
q mustache alone, long and silky, feel
like q gay Lothario and want to smile
at and ogle women see. want to be
one of the boys, too, and whoop it up
along the line. When l add an i'm
perial to the mustache l throw nv
shoulders back, brace my muscles and
assume military air. In one or two
of my towns am known as colonel,
for l have always worn my imperial
while there. If 1 run my beard down
to point in the French style l feel
quite diplomatic and can be as slick as
the politest of them. 1 feel my shout
ders shrug on the slightest provocation
and to all intents and purposes am a
foreigner. If part my whiskers in the
middle 1 am German nobleman or a
British landowner, according to my
surroundings. It gives me hale and
hearty, middle-aged feeling that shows
at once in my manner. If the whiskers
are let grow very long feel like a pa
triarchal farmer and become quite elder
ly and innocent in my department. And
SO it goes through all the phases
" I fancy that the style of mans
whiskers is in consonance 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 set
tied that shall adopt 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 aim ost six months and I don't feel
like changing it. "-Detroit Free Press.