A FIFTEEN-FOOT BEARD

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 30 April 1927, Page 6

A FIFTEEN-FOOT BEARD

SOME LUNCRTOI'S (iUOWTIJS

When the moustache is severely liriiJH'd and rcrtln'etCd, a* in these days, it in certainty to Vead of Cie no.n'J->;n..M of lU>Air. whose upper \iy ... embeUiufce.ci \tiik on affair 2Hm i:i length. Hi* cluim to be the moustache king of the world would, on the face of it, appear to be well found-

But one cannot help being a little oppressed by the thought, of. how much expense and agony fit mind of upkeep i>r ihis lonsorial kingdom must bring to our Berliner. At a theatre he mnsi have to occupy two sea'is for fear of ticking his next door neighbours, tu the streets in windy weather it i> likely to be itn extremely embarrassing possession, while bedtime must be a tori lire in case in his sleep he should incautiously turn over and squash 'he I hill" out of slia pi>. Again, lliere nmsl always be ilie fear thai an enemy will come by night ami with scissors deprive the moustache king of his kingdom. It, is a precarious basis on which to lie enthroned. The toothbrush, although nudist inguished, is safer.

The Sacramento Whiskerino Club, organised some four years ago in the t'aiiforian capital, has been made heir lo the 15-fooi beard of Zachury Taylor "Wilcox, 7!). Civil War veteran of Carson City, capital of Nevada, who died there. The beard is reputed to have been the second longest hirsute adornment in America, Wilcox having come our second best in a tournament at Sacramento (luring the whiskering contest there four years ago. After the'Sacrameiito gathering Wilcox returned to Carson City and drew up a will in which he left, his whiskers lo the Sacramento Whiskerino Club. Shortly afterward he was injured in an automobile accident which kept him to his home until recent months.

.lust before interment the beard of Wilcox will be shorn to comply with the provisions of his will, and the whiskers will then be sent to the Sacramento Whiskerino Club.