The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-14
KANSAS WHISPERS.
some of the Popular Grovvths At
fected in the Past and at Present.


fected in the Past and at Present.
From the Kansas City Star
The Kansas whisker is famous the
world over. II has walked boldly into the
funny papers. 1t makes itself at home
in literature. 1t rides upon ever cyclone.
/ II hourishes in song and story. and its
/ shadows and its glories-as a subject Of
I metaphorical allusion-never grow less
AS a matter of fact the whisker is not
popular in Kansas At any gathering of
real Kansas people there is generally only
a minority report so far as hair goes
Kansas has ten men in congress. PEI
fer is the only man who wears a flowing
beard, and only two of the members Of
the lower House wear any hair at all
| below their lips. There was a smooth
faced majority in the last state legisla-
| ture, and even Kansas ministers, who
| USED 10 wear more Whiskers than any
one, are reforming. At the last Kansas
/ conferences Methodist conference, too
there were at least a dozen preachers
/ VINO didn't wear any hair on their faces
49, 'He osarus IN the conference were al
most entirely gray The young fellows
! are becoming more and more liberal
| 4 Baptist conference would probably
/ snow greater percentage Of whiskers
/ than would any other Kansas conferences
! Tor the Baptists in Kansas cling to the
4 democracy, and the Kansas Democrat
has a whisker that is distinctively his
own.
Tho Perennial democratic" whisker
/ in Kansas is generally without a nous
tache. 1t IS the kind Of whisker that is
/ short and stubby and comes TO a point
under the chin like a paint brush. 1t re-
1 sembles a brand of whiskers which NAV
/ be called the "Sheriff's Pride" or the
/ County Officers own" The County
/ Otheer's own resembles the democratic
! whlsker in that 1t IL full under the jaw
+ but instead of coming 70 a point The
'Sherin Pride grows further down the
neck and flares out like a broom. 1t is
! very popular with the populists, though
/ it ran up with republicans five years ago.
] T.. +. Wilder wears this kind Of a danger
There is still to be found in Kansas an
| old-fashioned wind catcher which may be
called the Family or Roller Towel
| whisker The Pefferian whisker is a No
- Giant Family" whisker. This beard is
| worn by men with smallsh heads and
does duty as a necktie, napkin. plaything
for the children, savings bank. where
| the shaving money is invested. and lung
pad. It Is found generally upon retired
school teachers. q few lawyers, and an
occasional Cambelite minister.
The Van Dyke, which is the dwarf Of
the Family Whisker' species, is rarely
| found in Kansas. There is one In the
Lanier Circle at Abilene. another in the
book business in Lawrence, two In the
/ Topeka club, and an intermittent one in
the state university faculty, one in gro
| ceries, and one in banking at Eldorad0
and three or four scattering elsewhere in
/ Kansas.
The long side whiskers-the ''Taffy Ii
| laos they may be called now that Trilby
has taken kanSas-in former days were
| called Rock Islands in honor OF the man
| who had the distribution Of the passes
| over that route. These whiskers were
! worn with decollette hair, and are best
| shown from back view They never be-
came as popular as the Santa re Ever
| Blooming Shoe Brush" The "Shoe Brush
was named in honor of George r. Peck,
| and It may be called the national whisler
| of Kansas. 1t is in reality a moustache
but 1t is clipped close and short and
scratches like "sixty',,-to use a Kansas
idiom-'when the member is single man
or member of the legislature. This
shoe Brush" moustache was adopted by
| Jerry Simpson and Gov. LeweIling and
soon threatened TO supersede the Sheriff' :
Pride" among the populists. 1t is now
worn by all politicians in all parties ex-
to an older fashion. and often go in for
the leonine or IAN Wool" whisker and
several other older and now almost extinct
There is variety of mustache just now
popular with the members Of the "Imper-
ial Club or OF the Entire Nous or OF
the Push Dancing Club" This moustache
may be called the New Woman's De-
light" 1t has a silky wavy, languourous
during Lent Not infrequently is 1t slight
~ bald in the middle, just under the nose
and there is always an cdor of PEPPERMINT
gum and bandoline about it, which makes
il much sought after at select picnic
parties. After passing a certain age this
moustache begins to fade in the Kansas
climate, and then, when found upon elder
n ~ and vain persons, II assumes an iri-
descent hue The barber colors II a soft
enticing brown, but there Is no dye how
ever watched and tended" that will stand
the Kansas wind So the brown coat
blows or the northWe corner leaving
a starting shade OF purple in It's place.
and, above that, rich terra Gotta fading
into pearl color and ecru and maltese as
the hairs wave outward.
Sometimes there IS an ATTEMPT to dive
the 'Sherin's Pride" but after a few days'
struggle with the hot wind an impression
list sketch is the result About the surest
dye for the Kansas climate is stove or
shoe polish. II holds coloF and may be
removed al Will. Shoe polish as a hair dive
became a state issue in the last St. John
campaign, when II was charged that the
great prohibitionist apostle used that ar
ticle upon his mouStache, and be ii said
TO the credit of honesty and fair dealing
the shoe polish went down under the ava
lanche of popular condemnation.
1t was probably this rebuff to art for
arts sake that gave hirsute adornment
such a setback IN Kansas. Bur facts
/ travel slowly, and so the world does not
| know that the Kansas man, as a garden
for whiskers. has been outlawed by the
/ statute of limitations. The young crowd
which just now seems to have the deck
marked, IS against hair upon the face. At
I they Endorsed the foot ball hair cut and
divided upon the Ever Blooming Santa
Fe Shoe Brush, and the dreamy New
/ Woman's Delight" These two STYLES ~
/ facial adornment will be popular IN Kansas
for the next ten years IN spite of the reg
| ulations laid down by the eastern funny
4 papers.
-Margareta of Italy Is said to be not
aNmmH -. e.