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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19018, 14 November 1923, Page 8

—ln Czecho-Slovakia the wearing of beards 5s regarded as a patriotic duty. I have no idea of the exact relation between "face fungus,” as the late Frank Richardson used to call beards and moustaches, and love of country, but the novel contention may perhaps make Czecho-Slovakia a bearded island in a sea of the clean-shaven. In England nowadays beards are rare enough to be conspicuous, and even the moustache is disappearing;. The King has followed the fashion of his father, and Mr Augustus John carries on the tradition of “whiskers and art.” Bishop Gore and the Bishop of Exeter are bearded, hut somehow a beard and a purple cassock do not go well together. Mr Frank Swinnerton is distinfuished among the younger literary men y a Sbakespearean-Conrad beard, and Mr Silas Hocking is bearded like the pard. Mr Bernard Shaw’s flaming beard—grey now, alas —was for two decades a banner of revolt. And of course there are others. But the beard is disappearing before the advance of civilisation, and after Sir Edward Clarke, the “weeper,” beloved of the Victorians, will be bnly a memory. Even in France,, owing to the new love of sport and the influence of Mr Gillett, the beard and the whisker are the signs of yesterday. Anatole France, M. Poincare, and the Paris correspondent of The Times are bearded. M. Tritan Bernard, the dramatist, has (or had) a luxuriant crop. Elderly gentlemen with beards still sing improper songs in cabarets, and there are many beards in the Senate. But the young Frenchman is clean-shaven. No French actor copies the famous Mounet Sully and plays Hamlet with a beard, and the beards of the Quartier Latin are all American.

s#. * s w S i I I s! i iy Some Women get credit for buying more and better dress than others. This is because chey send their clothes to be Dry Cleaned at the City Dye Works 139 George Street, DUNEDIN