Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-07-06
WE HAVE OUR Fad.
Bismarck Can Console Itself These
Troublous Times With a Fad,
At the Very Least.
Fads Have Been Peculiar to All
Ages, But None More So
Than This One.
What It Is, How It Looks, and
What Is Generally Thought
Regarding It.
We Have a Fad. anyway.

We lave a Fad. Anyway.
Bismarck has a fad, with which to con
sole itself during the warm weather,
and the absence of trains. 1t is a grow
ing fad, for it is more extensive to-day
than it was a week ago. It is q healthy
fad, for those who have adopted it, seem
willing to brook the gibes and taunts,
and jests of those who have not. It is
a pronounced fad, and a noticeable fad,
because 1t has wrought such changes
since it's inception. It is not a particu-
larry useful fad, for it does not either
carry mail or transport passengers, but
it is a fad, just the same, and a startling
one, because of it's hair-raising tendency.
There have been fads in all ages, each
peculiar to the time in which it ran it's
course Eve had a passion for green
apples, SO pronounced as almost to as
sumo the characteristics of a fad, and in
Noah's time, there was a rage of boat
building and menagerie gathering. Com
ing down the pathway of time a few
yards, we find a passion of lion tanning
in Daniels time, with the Egyptians
nursing a fancy for dried beef, of the
mummy type. Brutus had a peculiar
desire to whittle, and even the naughty
| Caesar was forced to succumb to
the rare abilities of Brutus and his
clansmen, in that direction. Cleopatra's
fondness for scorpions is of world wide
notoriety, and would doubtless have
become a fad, had it not had such a de-
pressing effect on this regal beauty.
Thumb screws and branding irons be-
came fashionable in Spain at a later
day, and equalled in popularity the
tiddledy-winks or parlor tennis of our
own day, as a means of innocent amuse-
ment or entertainment.
Bowery dances on hot ploughshares
we're in vogue in early England. The
French believed in painting their towns
red at the close of the last century, and
basketed heads were ultra-fashionable.
In u own day, there are just as many
fads and peculiarities and some of them
as altogether as in the good
old days Of these first mentioned lido
| syncrasies. Tea drinking was SO popular
among the ~colonists at one time, that
the whole Of the tea in the country
was dumped into the ocean at one time,
| IN on ptfapor< +~Lo,,c r. l.. , -, En -, ia -. r
ply Of the liquid to supply the demand.
Even among the aboriginees-the ma
tive American Indians-these peculiari-
ties have been noticeable. One Of their
earlier fads-that Of removing the hair
about the crown ofthe head Of a prisoner
as a mark Of esteem, grew quite popular,
and resembled somewhat the fad which
Bismarck boasts to-day. In the congress
OF the present date, there is a passion for
sugar, which resembles a fad in its gen.
eral popularity, and the present presi-
dent has a fad for fishing, and extending
to the workingmen of the country ample
opportunity to do likewise.
Duo l y o " ITO ldu WHICH eYlSGS IN
Bismarck that mention must be made.
The wind signs through the tree tops,
and makes m%ournful music as it whistles
through the %sun-fowers stalks, Tut not
a Whlsker does it find in all it's course.
Mustaches, COATES, Galways, imperials
and Van Dykes have been sacrificed to
the unerring razor of the barber, and
the dictatorial mandates of "faaddom.n
The facial expression of the deyotees of
the fad which rules rampant at the pres
ent period has undergone one grand.
mighty and magnificent cataclysmic met
amorphosis.
There is an overcoming sensation of
sadness in the contemplation of the il.
roads which have been and are being
made by the prevailing custom. The
veil has been torn away, and the faces Of
the masculine multitude stand forth in
al OF thel pristine splendor. The de-
ceptlon which is afforded by hirsute
facial growths has disappeared. The
luxurlant beard and the %aamboyant mus
tache nave been sacrificed, and q won
derous change has been accomplished.
There is an interesting opportunity Tor
the physiognomlst, too, in the present
facial condition Of the multitude. Lips
and mouths stand forth in bold has.
relief, and afford ample field for research.
Some Of the followers Of the fad, IN BY
no means 80 attractive as before Some
OF them look strange, and are timid, 90