Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1888 — Nationality in Beards. [ARTICLE]

Nationality in Beards.

Boston Adversiser. An observant friend who had been examining a collection of faces representing a large numbsrof the public men then in ihe United States, made the following general conclusions in regard to national types in the cutting of the beard, which contain more than a grain of truth: ‘ The simple mustache, with the rest of the face clean shaven is the prevailing American type,” he said, “The old-time -Yankee chin whisker, like that of the traditional Uncle Sam,is no longer the national cut. In the same way the old French type of the i \ perial, of heavy mustache, and long goatee, have given way in France to the present type of a close cut full beard, trimmed to double points on the chin. The German and Russian national types are heavy full beards parted at the middle of the chin. The English type is a small, short-cropped mustache, with smpll, square side growths. The general Sooth European type of Spain or Italy is either an entirely clean-shaven face or else trvery small mustache and goatee crowded close about the mouth.”