San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-01-13
MORAL EFFEoT OF WHISPERS.
A Mans Character I'm fiue need By
the Style of His Beard.

A Mans Character In fiue need By
the Style of His Beard.
Detroit Free Press
Among the men I meet at inter-
walls on the road is very intelligent
fellow from Boston," said q festive
drummer in relating his experience
with whiskers. HE is about 35 and
with q capacity for raising hair on bis
fa3e beyond that of any person 1 ever
met. He 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.
..It,s queer about whiskers," said
he the last time 1 saw him. Don't
you know they change the character
of the man?
ST didn't know it, and said SO.
"They do, however," he ontinusd,
whether you know it or not. Now,
I've been hairy for twenty years
nearly, and in that time have been
all sorts of men. For instance, when
I wear large, flowing side whiskers
with q mustache, I grow gradually
fed and self-important. can't help
it, don't you know. It's whiskers
oblige, as we say in French, and
when catch look at myself In q
glass as I walk along unconscious
ly swellout and strut. I'm bound
to do it to match those whiskers.
Then when cut of the mustache and
run the side whiskers alone never
see that mouth and chin back there
but that 1t makes me feel pious. and
I begin to assume the demeanor of
minister OF the Gospel. Can't help
it, either, to save my life. Sometimes
l go smooth faced and my character
oscillates between priest and doctor,
according to the one of the crowd
I'm in. I even get boyish some times
and frisky when I see my smooth,
round face"
"Once, for the fun of 1t, I cut my
mustache Ia prize fighter. short and
stubby, and, do you know before .
week was . veritable tough, with
my hat cooked over my eye
and my general manner provoke
Ing siugging match at every turn.
was anxious for fight all the time,
and only saved myself by shaving.
When wear q full, neatly trimmed
beard l feel exactly like . banker or
successful professional man, and
nv manners after little while will
fall In to that rut. look 1t, they tell
me, and I can't help but be 1t. If l
wear q mustache alone, long and
silky, 1 feel like gay Lothario and
want to smile at and ogle woman l
see. Iwant to be one of the boy,
too, and whoop 1t up along the line.
When add an imperial to the mus
tache I throw my shoulders back,
brace my muscles and assume MILL
tary air. In one or two towns l am
known as Colonel, for I always wear
nay imperial while there. If run my
beard down to point in the French
style feel quite diplomatic, and can
be as slick rs the politest of them. /
feel my shoulders shrug ON the slight
est provocstion, and to all intents and
purposes 1 am q foreigner. II I part
my wniskers in the middle and brush
them out to either side / am Ger
man nobIeman or q British land own.
or, according to my surroundings 1t
gives me hale and hearty, middle.
aged feeling that shows at once In my
manner. II the whiskers are let grow
very long L feel like a patriarchal far
mer, and become quite elderly and
innocent In my department.. And so
it goes through all the phases
l fancy that the style of = mans
whiskers is In consonanoe with the
mans character, and that as man
is so will his whiskers be. In my
case 1 have reversed the operation,
but feel as grow older and become
more settled that 1 shall adopt one
style of whiskers and keep to that.
Even now am getting around to 1t,
and have been wearing this close-cut
full beard for almost six months, and
1 don't feel like changing it,"