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One hundred years agoThe passing of the beard
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DR. ALEXANDER DOWNIE in his new Zion, from which he has
banished all regular professors of the healing art, has lately issued an ordinance making the wearing of beards compulsory on all men. Elsewhere, however, there are signs that the doom of the beard is
written in the book of fate. Fashion and hygiene are for once combined
in one object, and that is the elimination of the beard. A few years
ago our gilded youth were bearded like the pard, or as nearly so as
Nature permitted; now what Parolles calls "valour's excrement" is
practically a forbidden thing to "smart" young men, even as a
decent covering for a feeble chin. Hygiene is equally ruthless. A
German surgeon some time ago vehemently denounced the beard as a
fertile source of infection during operations. Quite recently it has
been stated, with what authority we are unable to say, that the
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