THE SACRED BEARD.
[n this ago of beardless boys of forty it is interesting to note that, according to a contemporary, tlio latest society in Paris is tho Society of Pointed Beards, composed of leading musicians, literary men, and artists. Evory momber must, under pain of sovero punaltios, promise to wear a beard which tapers symmetrically to a point, livery Mohammeclau is obliged, of course, by his religion to grow a beard, and jn Russia tho beard has always boon an object of rcvorenoo. An ordnanco which was published in 1015 in Novgorod, then the capital of Russia, exemplifies this. By this law, any one plucking a hair from a neighbour's beard was subjected to a punishment four times moro severe than that inflicted for cutting off his finger.—".Westminster Gazette."
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 51, 23 November 1907, Page 12
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130THE SACRED BEARD. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 51, 23 November 1907, Page 12
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