Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 167, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1912 — Definition of the Beau. [ARTICLE]

Definition of the Beau.

A beau is one who arranges his curled locks gracefully, who ever smells of balms and cinnamon, who hums the songs of the Nile and Cadiz, who throws his sleek arms into various attitudes, who Idles away the whole day among the chairs of the ladies, who Is ever whispering in some one’s ear, who reads little billetdoux from this quarter and that, and writes them In return; who avoids*ruffling hie dress by contact with his neighbor’s sleeve, ~ Wfrff knowß with whom everybody is In love; who flutters from feast to feast; who can recount exactly the pedigree of Hirpinus. What do you tell me, Is this a beau, Gotllus? Then a beau, Cotllus, is a very trifling thing.