Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-06-19
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Aas existed from the remotest an
tiQaity, as is abundantly 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 a bronze razor.
The the process was considered am
enjoyable one there is no proof what
ever. OF ancient poetry there is
surfeit, out there are in 1t no odcs
and sorneis to the barber or the
razor The probability IS that ever
. since shaving vas first practiced it
has been regarded as one of the
greatest evils that flesh is heir to-
That the process was considered am
, the beard, for if they did not hate It
with perfect hatred they would let
it grow. There are a few religionists,
it is true, who consider it impious to
shave the beard and who from reI'g
, ious motives cultivat it, bur there is
/ no proof that they like it any better
/ than other people. The inhabitants
of high ATTITUDES, who need protsc-
/ ton from the cold are almost the only
people who dc not wish they were
! beardless.
| The trouble of shaving or beng
shaved is greatly aggravated by tan
talizing rumors heard now and then
| that n way has been discovered =.
avo. ling it. These rumors are gen
orally vague aud soon die out, but a
trenort comes from London now that
this great discovery, which far out
weighs the flying machine and wi e
, less telegraphy in Importance, has
certainly been made.
This rumor is much more deserving
of attention than the others. becau ;
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 a
failure. On the contrary, it is said
they were silent and greatly de-
pressed.
This invention is a paste of the
consistency of mortar which is applied
TO the face with brush. like latnSr-
and after it has been CD the face
few min2tes the bearu becomes so
brittle that it ,an be raked off with
visiting card along with the pasto-
/ The BARRIERS who saw 1t done were in
( credulous until they had felt the faces
of the subjects with their fingers 10
see If it was 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 con-
soiidased 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
J blind them to what their commercial
interests are. A policy satisfactory
to Australia might be most unaccept-
able to Canada and all the colonies
| have become too much accustomed, to
selfgovernment to be willing to re-
! linquish any power to imperial control.
| II seems probable that as new gen.
EiaAtAuA dilHNs ali vi NAOSG AnLtTGSlS
and associations are in the countries
OF their birth. lie sentimental tie be-
tween empire and colonies win
weaken.--W Washington Post
HOW GENIUS BoRRoWS.
1T is wonderful says Charles
keade, how can genius borrow. IAN
literature, remarks Oliver Wen
/ Holmes, lives by borrowing and Ieure
ing. and be adds. "A good image ~
like a diamond which may be set "a
hundred tines in as many genera
tons. and gain new beauties with
every change" This is not a question
of originality The lighting a candle
at neighbor's fire" observes Dean
Swift does not effect our properly
in the wick and fame" Genius Dor
! rows nobly.' The transference is often
a transmutation. For brass, the Dor
rover brings gold, and for iron, sir
| yer; AMI for wood brass, and for
stones iron. The crude ore is refined
and the raw material fashioned into
thing of beauty
| II 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 10 Fletcher's Purple Is
land, and this Bernard's Isle Of
Man, and this In turn to Defoe's
Robinson Crusoe and Bunyans PIT
grim's Progress-all like so many
blossoms rising from the one stem
Shakespeare has been called the
great WarwicSshire thief" so invet-
crate in his borrowing habit He m
vaded literature like Napoleon and
brought back the rarest art treasure
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
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