Paragould soliphone., 1922-10-13
BEARD IN HISTORY
At Times Fashionable and Again
 Severely Crowned On.
Public Opinion as to the Desrability of the Facial Appendaoe Changes
 Without Seeming Reason.

The prophets Of faslion in England announce that boards arc to be worn once more. Upon what signs and tokens the prediction is founded does put appear. It is hardly to be con tended that the beard has become .a more common objecf. pr that in social Intercourse q new interest in boards is 10 be obsery ed but one must not disercdif prophets. What the impulse is which inspires one century with a desire for boards Is as much mystery ;ls that craving for the razor which
 marks another. No man knows why heards grew again in Victorian Eng land after two hundred years of shay. ipg. II is easy to say that king Ed ward VII set the fashion, but that only puts the difficulty in smother
 manner. We cannot tell why the prince of Wales of Queen Eictoria's reign should have chosen 10 wear I. I,ut tho changes of fashion have been many, even in England, observes Henri Plckard in the Cincinnati En. quirer. According to the Eayeaux tapestry. Edward the Csnfessor had a beard, but pot Harold. The NOrInans who came to England win the Con queror were rlNsn-shaven. but il WAS ss new fashion in Normandy. Though 8 vehement M6late called bearded men "iiItlly goats and brittly Sarace1s,. y,s, ,er,a p-s dominant fashion in Fnglaad. Mus. taches, boards, and shayen faces were atl to be found, Henry Y made .shay- ing the. rule unfif beayCls eaiDe in, again with Henry VIII. But lest any man is alarmed by that precedsnt,f il ,npst bc said that tic first dafcnder, of flr faith vas only following 9 European fashion sanctioned by Pope Julius II and inc Emperor Charles Y. Y
 The Eliaabe,tlans were bearded, and very 'elaborately, for tbey, cut their boards to all manner or shapes, per f,Jme1 them, dyed tben, stsrcttei them, powdered ihct. Under ttc blrt Stnarts inc beard became 8 cl,ig tuft, By tlle beginning of sthe Eighteenth reufurN every man was clean shaycd At the end of it mustaches and Whisa. CTS were coming in again. Al first tI,esc decorations wero yHilitary. Every Enslishnan remembers how clive Newc"Tnbe, who wa~ .only n painter, amused tho marquis of 7iarin-' tosh by wearing mustaehes. tn tie middle of the century Dickens went abroad cieaply.shayen aud grew lliip- self . pair "They are beantifnl, beau tjful,H he wrote. "Without tbem, life would be a blank'' George " shaved clean. In tho year ls4o Geergec Fred crick Mnntz. who,, to he slif.', was; Il desperate radical, prousht ] huge black beardr into the house Of, cont mons, where snch q thing had n"t f-sen seen for we'centpries, and tiinid feik expected the immediate end of all things. The prince cnnsnft lft hair grow on his fgce, and wliskers becano longer and longer; but, even in isa1 people thought il desperately hold of Livingstone tn "brave the prepldices nf his countrymen' wearing n mus tache. and within inc lust io years a bishop wns blamed for wearing beard Who knows what the next turn of fashlon may bo? Tnth 1tlfe WIT it seemed that thG clean shavcn face was likely to become the rule once more, The wars crop.of mus taches still tiourishes and anything may happen next--eren q new Dun drcarN.