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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1, 6 January 1906, Page 52

Not many years ago every man who could grow a beard took a pride in being, like Bottom, marvellous hairy about the face; now we are going back to the smooth estate of the actor. Shaving may be a counsel of hygienic perfection, but the “British Medical Journal” asks if it has not some drawbacks from a moral point of view. Our contemporary does not speak of the profane swearing of which it is the frequent cause, but of the monstrous slice which it cuts out of a man’s life without, compensating gain. Campbell, the poet, is said to have calculated that a man who shaves himself every day and lives to the age of threescore and ten, expends during his life as hutch time in making his face smooth as would have sufficed for learning seven languages. If the beard must be offered as a sacrifice to Hygeia, cannot science give to man some method of remora! at pnee swift and easier than the razor!