Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-06-13
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uqulty, as is abunuanJly SHOWN by
the ancient statues and carvings that
have been preserved to the present
, tine. What the instrument Of torture
! was with which the beard was re
moved is not known but it was prob
ably bronze razor
| The the process vas considered an
! enjoyable one there il no proof what.
ever. OF ancient poetr! there is
surfeit, out there are III it no odcs
and sonnets to the barber or the
razor. The probability S that ever
since shaving was first practiced 1t
has been regarded as one of the
greatest evils that flesh is heir to.
! That the process was considered an
the beard, for if they did not hate It
with perfect hatred they would let
, 1t Srow. There are a few religonistS.
it is true. who con slider it impiouS to
shave the beard and who from rerg
, ious motives cultivate it, but there IS
no proof that they like il any better
than other people The inhabitants
of high ATTITUDES, who need prurac-
! ton from the cold, are almost the only
people who do not wish they were
! beardless.
! The trouble of shaving or BENG
shaved is greatly aggravated by tan
talizing runners heard now and then
j that way has been discovered =
avoiding it. These rumors are gen.
orally vague aud soon die out, but a
, report comes from London now that
this great discovery, which far OUT.
/ weighs the flying machine and wi T.
less telegraphy in Importance, has
certainly been made
This rumor is much more deserving
of attention than the others, becau ,
a public test has been made of the in
vention in the presence of a Largo
number of BARRIERS and not one of
them dared to hint that it was
failure. On the contrary, it is said
they were silent and greatly de
pressed.
This invention is paste of the
consistency of mortar which is applied
to the face with a brush like lather,
and after it has been on the face
! few minutes the beard becomes So
brittle that it can be raked off with
visiting card along with the paste
! The BARRIERS who saw it done were in
! credulous until they had felt the faces
of the subjects with their fingers 10
see if it was a clean shave but after
doing so they turned away in silence
Britain and Her Colonies.
The colonies are more likely to fall
apart and become independent com.
munities rather than portions Of a con.
soIidated empire. The national sen
timent and the desire for the reten
ton Of some tie connecting them with
the mother country remain very
strong, but not strong enough to
blind them to what their commercial
interests are. A policy satisfactory
to Australia might be most maCcept-
able to Canada and all the colonies
have become too much accustomed to
self-gOVernment to be willing to re-
linquish any power to imperial control
1t seems probable that rs new gen
erations arise, all Of whose interests
and associations are in the countries
OF their birth. tie sentimental tie be
tween empire and colonies will
Notwithstanding Post
HOW GENIUS BORROWS
1T is wonderful" says Charles
keade, how can genius borrow" All
literature" remarks Oliver Wen,
Holmes, lives by borrowing and Il nCs
ing" and he adds, "A good image IL
like a diamond which may be set a
hundred times in as many genera
lions, and gain new beauties with
every change" This is not a question
of originality. The lighting a candle
at a neighbOr's fire" observes Dean
Swift, does not effect our property
in the wick and flame. Genius Dor
rows nobIy." The transference is often
a transmutatiOn. For brass, the Dor
rover brings gold, and for iron. sill
yer; AMI for wood brass, and for
stones, iron. The crude ore is refined,
ana the raw material fashioned into
a thing of beauty
1t has been pointed out by Mr.
HUH, in his Life Of Buckle" that
there is a kind of pedigree in litera-
ture. Dante ayows his indebted.
ness to Virgil; as the latter himself
was under obligations to Homer
Ariosto owes much to Virgil, and
Spenser borrows very frequently
from Ariosto. Sponsors Faerie Queen
gave birth to Fletcher's Purple Is
land, and this Bernard's Isle Of
Man, and this in turn to Defoe's
Robinson Crusoe and Bunyan's Pill.
grim's Progress-all like so many
blossoms rising from the one stem
Shakespeare has been called the
great Warwfckshire thief" So invet-
crate in his borrowing habit. He n
vaded literature like Napoleon and
brought back the rarest art TREASURES
to enrich and beautify his verse One
is surprised to learn that for drama
list has no original plots, that he has
given to poetry no new rhythm nor
stanza, and that he ran not only In
the old road but in the old ruts" Ute
AS You Like It" is taken from
old romance. The characters Of
Julius Caesar" gre old Romans TAX
en- from Plutarch. But what borrow