The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-01-23

Van der Weyde.
TADAME JoIRE is a vivaciou'
MI French woman who Is one OF
Av4 the worlds authorities on
draping the feminine figure, for she
Is associated with the peerless
Paquin, who dreams sartorial sym
phonies for the whole world. The
women OF America will concede-and
they have conceded-that dainty
Madame Joire travels In big league
company when It comes to being
classified as an authority on beauty
Of fashion; and so she has made 1t
apparent that the women OF this ma
tlon are being denied an expression
over which the whole OF feminine
France is simply thrilling. 1t is one
OF the passing tragedies OF life that
we are blind at some time or other
to beautiful verities which simply cry
aloud for recognition, but whose ap-
peals are disheartenlngly barren OF
response. Which brings us at once
face to face with-Whlskers!
The war has given to whiskers In
France an added and patrlotically
intensified popularity. They are the
symbol Of strength, Of courage and
daring; of virile, strenuous manhood.
the triumphant sex symbol shrined
In the popular heart. That America
is nation OF clearly shaven men and
acqulescent, admiring women is deep
Iy deplored by some of our friends
across the water, not the least oil
whom is Madame Jolre.
French and German Opinion.
She has regarded the clean face
American. type of male and has pan
tomimed her feelings with her adora'
BILE hands and cried: "Terrlble!'
Now that the subject is being dis
cussed not only in France but In Ger
many and England as well, the re-
marks Of both Madame Joire and OF
Herr Director Brockelmann Will be
of more than casual interest. With
out intending 1t, the Teuton replies
to the French attack In a fashion
that might be effective II the facts
were incontrovertable. He says the
Americans have clean faces simply
because they cannot raise boards,
thus resembling the original Indians;
that they are growing more and more
like Indians every day. (And 1t may
be said, in parenthesls that a great
many Of them are 'lndians.")
Herr Director Brockelmann had
spent two years in studying Amerl-
ca and American customs when he
made the statement, which bore on
the declaration made not long ago in
Berlin that the Germans were imitat-
Ing the Americans In the custom of
being clean.shaven. 1t would appear
therefore, that men on this side are
not clean OF face through choice. So
the sprightly French woman, II she
Is inclined to accept this explanation
from the enemy, should turn her cen.
sure to infinite pity over what she
81 roiInno1 Ia 0nfft,
Simply Horrihed Her.
"oh," said she, IF you implore me
to be frank, must say in all truth
that your men are awful. Terrible,
might say. They dress like buffers.
And never a one OF them has a nous.
tache or whlskers.
ooh! That, to my mind Is dis
graceful.
when they do not wear any hair
on their faces it makes them effem.
mate looking.
why do they not wear whlskers
like our grand Frenchmen?
'Whiskers are the mark Of man.
hood, strength, power, while the only
men saw here who wore hair were
the clerks In the business houses.
and they had such funny, ridiculous
mustaches that must laugh at
them"
The discussion has been taken up
in England, but there whiskers still
have an eminent standing and invite
none of the derislon that is frequent.
ly given in America. Indeed, this
attitude toward an eminent and re-
spectacle feature is the subject Of
comment by a French journalist who
takes the worldwide popularity of
Chauncey NJ. Depew's whiskers as
the subject Of his discourse. 1t will
be recalled that the wit and states
man, in going from Geneva to Paris
at the outbreak Of the war, was
cheered by the passengers and the
crowds at the stations. "Vive En-.
tente Cordlale!" they shouted, deem
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