The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-09
JOY IN FALSE WHIsKERS,
The Prattle of Chicago FaIrir in Recom-
 mending His Wares.

| mending His Wares. | From the Chicago Daily Tribunel
 "step right up and get your whiskers | you don't have to wait for them to
 grow, I have them here ready made
 fresh lot, just picked" called q street
 fakir, who has but recently appeared
 at Clark and Madison streets. A few feet distant he looked like a
 modern Mephistopheles, with the ends
 of his black moustache waxed and curl
 ed and "goatee' terminating in a fine
 point. A closer view showed the mous-
 tache and "chin dauber" were false,
 and from the fakirs' neck was suspend
 ed handbag half filled with false
 whiskers corresponding to those on his face.
 Come up and pick 'em out; the lit-
 tie black ones and the little brown ones they only cost you a nickel; plain men made handsome for five cents; take a pair of them home and surprise your wife"
 There are all sorts and conditions of fakirs on Clark and Madison streets, but they either have articles of some utility, or, at least, something to afford amusement to the purchaser, but where Is either utility or amusement in set of false whiskers?
 "Take your pick for a nickel" said the fakir as the reporter stopped to ex- anime his stock This whiskers were made of wool and were dyed in various colors. They were made attachable to the face by paste such as is used by actors in making up."
 The fakir explained that selling false boards on the street wasn't against the law, as he had a license.
 "Who buys them? Everybody, from, CTS are gents who are out to see the sights, doing the town, you Know. They are likely to visit places where they would not care to be recognized, so they put on one of these fierce moustaches and a goatee called the sparks or pair of 'Chauncey Depews,' like these (holding up pair of iron-gray side whisgers), and their best friends would mt recognize them under the broad, bright glare of an electric light. #
 "Sell many? Well, ordinarily make two or three dollars day, but Satur- day make as much as $1O. The best graft I've had in Chicago was the night of the bal travesti on the north side. It was like finding money. The young bloods and swells bought me out before ten o'clock that night. These make a fellow look hand some, and they are better than mask for concealing a. mans Identity.
 Last winter I followed the races in Texas and made good money. You know there's always a lot of fellows who go to the races and don't want-to give themselves away; fellows who are dead gone sports, but come from good people, There's always the danger of a young fellow who plays the races run hing up against his old man, or some friend of his papa, who would squeal 1n him, so he buys set of these mous- aches and the chin dauber and he's safe. Why, one young sport Town there with these whiskers on, actually tipped off good things to his id man and made him put up the mon- " with him when he won And the old l nan didn't know him from Adams off | x. When they got home the old | gent asked the kid where he had been hat afternoon, and the young feller | aid he had been to lecture at the Y. | I c. A., and then the old gent ex- | ,lained that he had been detained him |