NOVELTIES IN WHISKERS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1747, 30 August 1905, Page 10

NOVELTIES IN WHISKERS.

BOX BEARDS IN FRANCE, AND MOLE-LIKE PATCHES IN ITALY. “The most remarkable whisker novelty,” the barber said, “is to be found in France. Frenchmen for the last six months have been wearing box beards. ~ ’ “A box heal’d is as square a© a piece of carpentry, 9in long, sin wid©j 2in deep, every corner sharp and true, and all the surfaces, upper and under and side smoothed as if with a plane. “The box beard is net and queer. It was introduced by the King of the Belgians. > “The English have a new moustache—the butterfly. -The butterfly is not more than two inches long. It is just a feathery little thing under with ends turning upward and inward. It has been adopted by all the young army officers. The King has stamped it with the stamp of his approval. ‘You will hardly believe it, but in Italy the patch is being worn. The Italian has his chin’ shared smooth except for a tiny circular patch the size of a shirt stud, and in this patch he grows a little tuft half an inch long. It is as though the Italian had a mole there, but he has no mole really. The patch is just his coquetry. “Here in America smooth faces or beards or moustaches in the more simple, classic styles continue. The men of America would be ashamed to wear the box, the butterfly, or the patch.”—“Chicago Chronicle.”