The Washington herald., 1910-06-26
TWO VIEWS ON SUBJECT OF WHISPERS
BY RUDOLPH DE zApp.

BY RUDOLPH DE ZAPP.
Some eviI-minded person recently brand
ed Hughes sanctifed whiskers "nlegal"
and in all seriousness asked what will be-
come of the radiant. luxurious, and
magnetic whiskers" Of Gov. Hughes, that
made him the animated feather duster."
when he attires himself In black robe
and sits on the Supreme bench.
This same person says that 1t is an IN
written law of the Supreme Court that no
associate justice may sit on the bench
with an outfit Of whiskers. An exception
was made of Morrison R. Waite. as Chief
Justice.
When the late Justice Brewer, whom
Gov. Hughes VIII succeed. came into
Office one of his most cherished posses
siOns was a full beard. His associates
were shocked. intensely amazed, and ut
terly disguised. The good justice Won
dered wherefore this sudden frigidlty in
the temperature. and the very next day
Justice Harlan and one OF his colleagues
took the newcomer aside. It is alleged,
and automatically informed him that it
was unbecoming a mere justice to display
such a glaring array of whiskers.
The following day Justice Brewer ap-
peared on the bench elean-shaven. There
are mustaches and other such trifies scat
tered over the faces OF several members
Of the present court, but there seems 10
be no resentment against these inofen-
sive appendices
It takes all kinds of people to make a
world, and there are some who admire
while there are others who take a
different view. Among this latter
class may be placed the girl stu
dents at the University of Chicago, who
have put their feet down on mustaehes,
-fguratively speaking, Of course. They
have decided not only TO boycott "the
person who INDUCES in a mustache. but
they will not under any circumstances
whatever become engaged to bewhis-
kered man. There. now!
Spanish ladies do not agree with their
Chicago sisters. The Andalusian beauty
speaks from experience evidently when
she says that kiss without mustache
is Ike an egg without salt" Ancient
spinsters put the matter In a different
light again. They assert that men who
wear mustaches put their upper lips in
mourning for their brains"
It Is quite evident that the wiliskers
question is not to be tri1ed with. His
tory teaches US that much. A foolish re-
mark about boards and somebody's bad
temper caused the loss of thousands OF
lives 1.-THE Venetians wear no boards"
were the words uttered by the Venetian
ambassador to the Turkish grand vizier
when asked to ratify a treaty by swear
ing upon his heard and the beard of the
prophet" the ordinary Moslem form Of
oath Neither, for that matter. do the
balloons" retorted the Turk; whereupon
the Venetian tore up the treaty and
strobe out of the room. Some $1,000 Chris
tians and more than 10000 Turks fell in
the conflict that ensued.
The question Of boards and whiskers
has always been a more or less tortuous
one in the navy of Great Britain and
France. Just at this writing the French
minister of marine is troubled in his soul
about a certain quarteTmaster, am in
formed. who refuses to sacrifice a beard
fourteen inches in length. thereby defy
ing the official rules. It is a case of CASH
iering the offender or amending the regu-
lations England had some trouble of
that kind in her navy When Mr.. Hugh
Childers was first lord of the admiralty
he attempted, at the suggestion of Prince
Leiningen, then captain of the royal
yacht. to abolish shaving in the navy.
'aThere is more bad language" wrote the
prince, made use of during the quarter
of an hour devoted to shaving than dur
ing any part of the day, and no wonder.
Jack has had three hours on deck ever
since 4 a. m. Perhaps he has been aloft
during most of the time, or else he has
Leen on the lookout, steamlng head to
wind. Down at last he comes at six
bells with his face as hard as iron; a
bad razor. a small bit of broken looking
glass about the size of a half crown,
very often a wet deck to stand on, the
ship all the while rolling or pitching
heavily"
The old officers Of the service opposed
lHo hAoPoSCN NAaAse az II liS SAFETY OF
the country depended upon it. Mr.. Chill
ders submitted the matter to the Queen.
who took the usual common sense view
of the affair. Her own personal feeling,
she wrote. would be for the boards eith-
out the mustaehes, as the latter have
rather soldieriy-like appearance; but
then the object in view would not be OBJ
tained-to prevent the necessity of shaw
ing. Therefore, it had better be as pro-
posed-the entire beard. only it should be
kept short and very clean. On no ae-
count should mustaches be allowed with
out Boards that must be clearly under
stood