Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1915 — WAR BRINGS WHISKER CRAZE [ARTICLE]

WAR BRINGS WHISKER CRAZE

Fashions of Crimean War Days Reappear In London—Style in Mustaches. London.—lt looks as though there would be a revival of the hirsute fashion of the days of the Crimean war. There is some disquiet in correct military circles over the tendency of some *n t) altems to acquire short side whiskers after the pattern of butlers on the stage. This is regarded as an insidious feeler toward the fall-blown Bide whiskers of Crimean days The very suggestion has caused prank Richardson to burst out into at least six abusive synonyms. The mustache cultivated recently by the military has been for some time of the toothbrush or bristle variety. The new festoon, of which the Londo* ' sfaNeti fast now offer many distressinf examples, Is to abbreviate the toothbrush on the upper Up until ft

is no more than a square bristly patch under the nose.