SHAVING V. BEARDS

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21355, 24 December 1934, Page 11

SHAVING V. BEARDS

TO THE IDITO* Or THE MUSS. Sir, —Or, "As you like it," as Shakespeare has it. He describes the magistrate with cap on, placed so, eyes severe, beard of formal cut, etc., and the priest, all shaven and shorn, etc. Here are figures showing the time wasted in world shaving since history began, say:—2ooo x 500 x 300 x 10 equals minutes in millions which might have gone to piling up that leisure the Douglas credit people are going to show us how to do. Will some professor of history say; tell us how the pernicious practice of shaving started? Had it a religious origin? Male vanity is undoubtedly the reason to-day that we mutilate and thwart nature in the way we do. I know one dear old prelate who was allowed to let his beard grow, he would have died young if he had shaved. If the world followed the example set by the King and myself there is no telling what stupendous results might follow. This contention is well worth threshing out. If you don't think so you know what to do with this, which is a negative and unbusinesslike suggestion.—Yours, etc ' PETER TROLOVE. i December 23, 1934. \