The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-03-22
THE WHISPERS AND The MAN.
How the Hair on His Face Dominates the
Wearer's Character.
detroit Free Press

Wearer's Character.
detroit Free Press.
"AmonQ the men meet at intervals on
the road is a very teliRent fellow from
Boston," said drummer. HE is about
thirty-fve, and with a capacity for raising
hair on his face beyond that OF any per-
son ever met. He has fun with it, too,
and he has his whiskers III different shape
every time l meet him Now and then 1
don't know him, but he always comes up
smiling. and | catch on to the new man
without much difficulty.
Its queer about whiskers," said he the
last time | saw him. Don't YOU know
they change the character of the man 2
81 didn't know it. and said so.
"They do, however" be continued.
whether you know it not. Now, 1
have been hairy for twenty years nearly,
and In that time l have been all sorts of
men. For instance, when / wear large,
flowing sidewhiskers with mOustache,
grow gradually as they do, and become
quite dignifed and self-important. L
can't help it you know. lis 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 to do il to match those
whiskers. Then when / cut off the
moustache and run the sidewhiskers alone
Inever see that mouth and chin back there
but what it makes me feel pious, and I
begin to assume the demeanor of minis
ter of the gospel. Can't help 1t, either,
to save my life. Sometimes l go smooth
faced, and my character Osciliiates between
priest aud actor, according to the kind Of
crowd I'm in. l even get boyish some
times and risky when | see my smooth
round face.
Once, for the fun Of it, cut my NOUS
tache a la prize fighter, short aud stub
by. and do you know. before week
was veritable tough, with my hat cooked
over my eye and nv general manner pro-
voking a sluggIng match at every turn. |
was anxions for fight all the time, and
only saved myself by shaving. When
wear full, neatly trimmed beard | teel
exactly like a banker a successful
professional man, and my manners
after little while fall into that rut
look it, they tell me. and | can't help but
be it. Ii wear moustache alone, long
and silky. feel like gay Lothsrio. and
want to smile at and ogle every woman
Sc. | want to be one of the boys, TOO,
| and whoop it up all along the line.
When / add an imperial to the NOUS
tache l throw my shoulders back, brace
my muscles. and assn ne a mi ilery air.
III one OF TWO OF my towns am known
as colOnei. for l have always worn my
imperial while there
IF | run my beard down to point in
the French style, ] feel quite diplomatic
and can be as slick az the poiitest OF them
L feel nv shoulders shrug on the slightest
provocation, and to all intents and pur-
poses / am a foreigner. II part my whisk-
ers in the middle and brush them out TO
one side | am a Germ N nObleman or a
British landowner, according 10 my sur
roundings. 1t gives me hale and hearty
middle aged feeling that shows at once in
my manner. II the whiskers are let grow
very long | feel like patrisrchal farmer
and become quite elderly and innocent in
| my department. And SO il goes through
all the phases.
Il fancy that the style OF a mans whisk-
ers Is in consonance with the mans char
acter and that as a man is so will his
whiskers he. In nv case | have reversed
the operation. but feel as l grow older
and become more settled that / shall adopt
one style of whiskers and keep to that.
Even now l am getting around to it, and
have been wearing this close-cut, full
beard for almost SIX months and / don't
feel like chan Qing it. -"