The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-04-13
MORAL EFFECT OF WHISPERS
A Mans Character Influenced by tn
Style of His Beard.

A Mans Character Influenced by tn,
Style of His Beard.
among the men / meet at intervals
on the road is a very intelligent fellow
from Boston," said drummer in relat
ing his experience with whiskers "Ht
is about thirty-five and with capacity
for raising hair on his face beyond thai
| of any person ever met He has fur
with it. too, and he has his whiskers
in different shape every time l meet
him, but he always comes up smiling
and l catch on to the new man without
much difficulty.
Its queer about whiskers,' said he
the last time l saw him. Don't ecu
know they change the character of the
man.
81 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 with a mustache ]
grow gradually as they do and become
quite dignifed and self-important
can't help it, don't you know. It's
whiskers oblige, as we say in French,
and when l catch look at myself in a
glass as walk along / unconsciously
swell out and strut Pm bound to do
Ut to match those whislxers. Then when
I 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 / begin to as
sumo the demeanor Of a minister of the
gospel. Can't help it, either, to save
my life. Sometimes | 60 smooth-faced
and my character oscillates between
priest and doctor, according to the tone
of the crowd Pm in. even get boyish
sometimes and frisky when l see my
smooth, round face.
Once, for the fun of it, l cut my
inustache la prize-6ghter, short and
stubby, and, do you know, before a
week l was a veritable tough, with my
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 l wear a full, neatly
trimmed beard 1 feel exactly like a
banker or successful professional man
and my manners after a little while
fall into that rut ! look it, they tell
me, and can't help but be it. If wear
a mustache alone, long and silky, feel
like gay Lothario and want to smile
at and ogle women 1 see. 1 want to be
one of the boys, too, and whoop it up
nj La ClI
perial to the mustache l throw my
shoulders back, brace my muscles and
assume a military air. In one or two
Of my towns l am known as colonel,
for l have always worn my imperial
while there. If / run my beard down
to a point in the French style l feel
quite diplomatic and can be as slick as
the politest of them. l feel my shout
ders shrug on the slightest provocation
and'to all intents ami purposes am a
foreigner. If part my whiskers in the
middle am German nobleman or a
British landowner, according to my
surroundings. 1t 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 pa
triarchal farmer and become quite elder
ly and innocent in my department And
SO it goes through all the phases.
II fancy that the style of n mans
whishers 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
ms | 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 almost six months and l don't feel
like changing it Detroit Free Press
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