The Cedarville Herald, Volume 53, Numbers 1-26

THE CJJDARVIWiE BEHA I® , MARCH *% 1**0 •Vrpt'ti- -v'A ijfW3W*ii..i:Et MfegMO A“WhiskeKs”Come-back? Cutting Stalks Is I T ough On Borers Getting Rid o f Last Year’* Rubbish Destroys Many Larva* In Hiding ELMO SCOTT WATSON d^*IU3 whiskers about to stage \ a come-back on the face of f I American manhood? Walt, V I now, before you. give a f ir *n scornful i*eply to that ques- 1 tlon! For there are eer- f l i t / tain signs to indicate that O j r 1 tt>e Wea Is not so fanciful as It may appear to he nt the first Superficial thought. Do our newspaper* accurately re­ flect contemporary American 'life ? Consider, then, two newspaper items. One reads as follows; Apropos Uj« rumor that whiskers are shout to do acoms-hack as a companion piece to hustles, also reported to he staging1a come-back, this should, bring about a revival of the pottery Industry by stimulating trade in mustache cups. — Auxvasse <lfo.) Review. ■ The other ■goes Into the subject more- exhaustively and says: ' ; Taffeta, and ruffles have been worn ■ before, and still there was no Wide outbreak of whiskers. , We had the long skirt for a while,- too, and few whiskers returned. But it will be a surprising and an unhlstoric thing If we eari have black -mitts for evening and billowy skirts That sweep the ground and these coy puff sleeves and lace bonnets and now long-skirted bathing suits, even-—and never a burn- side to go-with them. The wax mod­ els fn the windows of shop and shoppe alike cry out for bearded company- A woman In such apparel not only needs an escort to the soiree; she needs a. doughty' blade with whiskers. There­ fore, he will appear; -and the motion picture doctor will, no longer be alone Irv'his Van Dyke.' , There are portents, political and mu­ sical, A Paris .dispatch . informs us that ' ‘the present French cabinet, which consists o f 22'ministers and sub- ministers, shows not a single shaken member,” and in addition, four chief representatives at the London parley brought mustachep, while the fifth has a beard. Locally, eveyy one is aware o f Chief JUstice Hughes. Mr. J. Ham Lewis, Loujs-Graveure, Doctor Britton Of the New Turk .botanical garden and Ernest Boyd, critic. incarnadine, and finally several tenors have appeared in those mustaches which we associate with barytones. *‘ ' inevitably w c must return, to ‘ our mutton chops '.If the spring, fashions continue back toward 1830. The short bodice, the sprigged frock ,'the chig­ non and the genteel black glove look timid with ‘ n o' protective whiskers above them, yet here they are.. And when whl- ’ rs come back,, mark your grandfathe ., words, so will chaperons. ■ ,—New -York Herald Tribune. There you have It—from both the rural find thef metropolitan press, rep­ resenting' both the country and the city 1 However true it, may be that the sufety-razor-usiog, smooth-faced American appears to be in the ma­ jority today, Is It beyond belief' that he may choose to return to the be- whfskered glory of the past? History shows that the ffidat adornment of the ruler o f a nation usually sets the hirsute styles of the citizens o f that nation. Now, o f course, In a democ­ racy such as ours the citizens are not likely to imitate the example o f their President as are .the subjects o f a monarchy to follow the mode set by their king or emperor. But the fact remains that during most o f our history Americans have In general followed the Style In regard to Whiskers or no whiskers as set by our Presidents, •although that may have been only a coincidence. Our •arly Presidents from Washington down to and Including Buchanan were nil smooth-faced and most Americans o f their times were, too. Abraham Lincoln wag the first President with a fail beard and during his administra­ tion the golden age ‘of whiskers began. Hot the least o f the elements which made the Civil war so picturesque were ' the magnificent mustaches, beards and sideburns which adorned the generals and statesmen, both Un­ ion and Confederate, during that peri­ od. A Civil w«r general, or even a colonel, a major or a captain without Whiskers—well, the picture simply Isn't complete, that's alii Lincoln's successor, Andrew John­ son, wag smooth-shaven, it is true, but his successors more than made up foe his deficiency in carrying on the tradition. With the inauguration of Grant, whiskers came definitely into their own and for the next thirty year a they were much in evidence in both the White House and the Capitol, Grant, Hayes, Garfield and Harrison all wore full beards, Arthur wore a mustache 'and sideburns and Cleve­ land wore a mustache. McKinley's smooth-shaven face marked the end o f the beared era, but Roosevelt and Taft Symbolized a sort o f a hang­ over With their mustaches, tel* present smooth-shaven era be- ga* with Woodrow WllSon and has •SkthMMd through the administrations Cutting and removing last year's corn stalks is at the game time cut­ ting the chances o f the European .corn borer to increase, wax and grow fat on the Ohio corn crop, For the borer spends one stage o f his life hiding in the corn stalks and debris o f last year's crop. Spring is the time for cutting, rak ing and burning the accumulated stalks. When the ground is frozen hard, the stalks njay be broken off by dragging a railroad rail or heavy pole across the Sold, Such a system won’t work after the ground thaws. In cooperation with the Ohio State University engineers, the Bureau of Public Roads o f the United States Ulpartment o f Agriculture has devel­ oped and tested a new and improved sled-type stalk shaver which will cut the stalks off dose to the ground and leave them in .condition to be raked and burned.^ fhfe machine works" best when the ground is not frozen, It consists o f a light sled equipped with blades and a plow coulter for guiding it. It can be built in the farm work­ shop on plans which will be supplied free by the United States Department of Agriculture at Washington, P. G. DISMISS SUIT ' Case o f Minnie Mendenhall against Carl Mendenhall has been ordered dis­ missed at the plaintiff's costs in Com­ mon Pleas Court. ■E-x-Ka-iseHW ilh e lm . of Harding-and Coolidge down to the election of Hoover. Now that we have bad nearly twenty years o f smoo.th- slmven Presidents Is 'the pendulum about to swing bad; again, and give !us another.'bertrded President to set the style for .bis fel1ow-Americans? And if whiskers are to stage a come­ back, what are to be the most popular. styles? k Lbok at the"portraits o f the be- *whiskered notables sbowft above and pick' out-your own style. The full, flowing “ chest-protector” beard worn by Edwin ‘ M. Stanton, secretary of war in Lincoln's cabinet, is not only typical o f the style most popular in the American golden age of whiskers hut'it is one of the oldest styles. As will be seen by data presented later In this article, it goes back to very an­ cient times; If, however, it would overtax the patience of the average American to wait for the growth of such a luxuriant crop, the hairy col­ lar style, with the ostrich plume effect, as exemplified by Horace Greeley; the great editor, might-be less trouble tb' 'cultivate. Many Americans may not remember the services of the gallant Gen. Am­ brose Everett Burnside during 1the . Civil war, but they are not likely to forget .what he contributed to Ameri­ can facial adornment They are some­ times referred to as “mutton chop whiskers," thereby depriving the gen­ eral of credit which properly belongs to him. For, fig everybody “knows, the right nnine for them Is obtained by reversing tlio hame of the man who made them popular and calling them “sideburns,” Similarly, his Imperial— and ill-fated—majesty, Napoleon in, mnde popular in France the combina­ tion of sharp-pointed mustache hud ,lower-Up whiskers, or "goatee," which goes by the name of "Imperial.” It is doubtful if the average American would care for this "foreign inven­ tion'*-—preferring one of the "made- in•Amerlca’, brands—any more than he would care for the sharply up*- turned mustache of the er-kalser of Germany, One fault o f the lntter type —at least, there is a tradition, to this effect—Is that it requires tod much at­ tention, such as putting it in a cloth framework at night so that it will not sag, droop or otherwise lose its perky uprightness. The United -States, however, is not the only* country in which there are signs o f a whiskers come-back. From France comes word that a well-known arbiter of styles on the Parisian boule­ vards has started a campaign for the return o f the beard, which he regards as the "outward sign of a mature mind," Tims Is another historical cycle completed, for in early times the f* beard was considered by alt nations as a sign of strength and manhood, carefully cherished and almost regard­ ed as sacred, More than that, its re­ moval was considered a particularly degrading form of punishment In the second book of Samuel In the Did' Testament Is related the story of the servants which King David sent to Hantin, ruler of the Ammonites, to comfort him for the death of his fa­ ther, Their reception is described as fOllOWS5 And the princes of the children of Atnmon caM Unto Hamm their lord, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that be hath sent comfort­ ers Unto thee7 hath not David rather sent1his servants unto thee, to search the city, slid to epy it out and to over­ throw it? Wherefore Ranun took David's serv­ ants and shfived off the one-half of their beards, and cut off their garments . in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away. When they told it unto David, he sent to meet them, because the men Were greatly ashamed: and the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards he crown, and then return. Among the Moslems the beard ‘was .also held In great respect and the ’ Strongest oath that a Mohammedan could utter was, "By the beard of the Prophet!" People of this religious be­ lief took great care of their beards, habitually carrying combs to comb it and beep it in order. It was their cus­ tom to do this after prayers, while still on their knees, and if any hairs fell out they immediately picked them up and preserved them for burial with their owners. They also dyed their beards, usually red, not only because dye o f that color was easily obtain­ able, but because it was. nearly like, the golden yellow, the color recoin- mended by Mohammed, who hated black, the color which the Persians dyed their beards in France and Spain the wearing of beards fallowed the styles set by the monarchs o f-th ose countries. The beiird was commonly worn In France until the time o f Louis XII, who, be­ ing young and beardless, set a new style and, the fashion changed. In Spain the ioyal Spanish ’courtiers re- ’ : moved their beard* when Philip ,V, wh6 was unable to grow a beard, came to the throne. - In Russia Peter the Great issued a royal,edict compelling Ids subjects to shave' or pay a tax on tlielr beards -In proportion to the rank of the wear­ er. Henry VIII of England attempted a similar tax in England, but found it difficult to enforce the law and later gave it up. As a result the reigns o f Elizabeth and .Tames I were characterized by the wildest extrava­ gance in beard growing with some men clipping their beard* Into as many formal shapes as the old-fash­ ioned box hedges. Under the reign of Charles I the Vaa Dyke beard, named for the famous painter, became popu­ lar, only to be followed by a smooth­ faced era during the Eighteenth cen­ tury nnd down-to the days o f "our dear queen," Victoria, whose royal consort and whose son, later Edward VH, brought bach the pointed beard as one o f the glories o f the Mid-Vic­ torian days. If, indeed, there is a whiskers come­ back and beards once more become popular, they will bring with them vexing problems. One of them Is; what to do with the beard when it is not In use—taking ft for granted that a beard can be put to use, such *as stroking It as an aid to cautious thought and tweaking It, either one's own or another’s, to suggest violence; determination or aggresiveness. How Berlous this problem jnay be is Indi­ cated b y . the following Incident re­ lated recently by a writer in the Bos­ ton Herald; gome years ago a certain eminent man of New England wrote a letter to another eminent New Englander whose title to eminence is substantial and whose beard 13 celebrated throughout the land. It is a beard In the fullest dimensions of old New* England, in the letter to this bearded New Eng­ lander the friend asked this question; When you retire at night, do you tuck the heard under the sheet, or do you leave it free outside and above the sheet? This, we ate told, caused the wearer of the beard much distress. Until the matter had thud been called to his attention, he Is 'reported to have told his friends afterward, he had never given this problem any thought. He had retired at night as other men do, find had fallen gracefully into sleep, untroubled and unperplexed. It never haa occurred to him that there was anything complicated or pussling about the performance. Since that letter and ltd question, however, he had hardly had a comfortable night’s sleep, for.lhe moment he put put the light arid popped into bed he had begun to de­ bate which disposal of his beard he might the more comfortably make— above the sheet or beneath iL By this we learn that the beard, like many another luxury Iri life, carries with It responsibilities and perplexities; HISTORIC “EDEN MUSEE” COPIED FOR SCENE IN “ ANNA CHRISTIE” .New York's historiq "Eden Musee" founded many years ago on old Four­ teenth Street , and later moved to Coney Islarfd .where it was razed by fire, may be seen in reconstructed form in “ Anna Christie/' Greta Garbo’s first talking pirture whirh.will come Sat­ urday, Marph 29th to the Regent Theatre, Springfield fo r one week. It was in, this- famous wax works; that the “ Chamber o f Horrors" first came into being with it’s shocking dis­ play o f .torture and murder victims, depicted with life-like realism. When^ it was moved to- Coney Island it pre-f seryed many o f its Imayes, such as Dorothy Arnold, Nan Patterson, Elsie Siegel and other figures in sensational mysteries.' Clarence Brown, directed Garbo’s talking picture debut,, using the Eden Musee setting as a background fo r Coney Island .scenes in which all the glamor o f Surf Avenue was preserved in sound ns well as Scenic authenticity. Shorts and Middlings ,Viburnums, -!f. they have plenty of food, will gr<DVm the shady spots $ the yard/ arid/wjll supply-either ex­ cellent f&liaj$5 decorative fruits, -or conspicuous ysoom, depending upon the variety selected. Early planting,' wpU-prepared soil* good paints ...and care in setting, are important factors In obtaining a good strawberry bed. The .plants which start early make more runners than those which, pet late. Says Sami?Among the other pests, is the man v/h'o once, and once only, had a brilliant; idea, and is afraid to let loose o f it-for fear he’ll never have another. > A crop of„ sweet clover, plowed under, will ordinarily adu about 160 pounds o f nitrogen to the soil o f an acre o f ground, at a cost o f about five cents a pound. The hardest possible blow at the corn borer .is to thoroughly clean up the; fields before planting, REGENT ‘ Theatre Springfield, Ohio 1 Week Starting Saturday, Mar. 29 THE WHOLE WORLD LISTENS and THRILLS T O AR.BO Anyway Th .y Stared An Emporia school ma’am, says the Gazette, went to California last sum­ mer and ate her first meal in ■ dining car. “ Yes, I wore my new. kimono In to breakfast," she said, "nnd the way everyone stared at me, they mast have thought it was pretty.”—Capper’s Virginia Onto Pint In 1790, when the first census was taken, Virginia ranked ahead of all tbq states both in population and commerce. At that time Virginia’s population wns twice rs great as that of New York, and she was a far more prosperous state. Ten Heavy Embossed Papers l i e Single Roll Sold From 25c To 60c Per Boll GRAHAM’S 1 ’ S. 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