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A Benefit of the War—
Beards Off
The war has taught at least one of the fighting nations—
France—that hair on the face is foolish. .
{ Throughout the French army the order has gone, ‘‘Shave
your face clean.’”” Any many a sad-eyed French woman will
wonder what has happened to her dear ‘‘mari’’ when the hero
pomes home without the black whiskers or the beautiful little
Pointed mustache.
This shaving of the beards—llet us hope it will spread from
France to other nations—is an excellent thing, and the war is to
be thanked for it.
The Frenchmen living in the horrible trenches, in filth that
could not be overcome, soon realized that it was foolish to carry
around on their faces a warm fuzzy nest in which microbes might
breed. (American doctors who wear beards please note and try
to make up your minds to sacrifice the germ carriers that you
wear on YOUR faces. Please believe that the day has gone by
Wwhen a full set of whiskers makes the doctor look wise and high
priced in the eyes even of the ignorant.)
" A 'beard on the human face, highly appreciated by its owner
and much admired by foolish females, is & trait of ancient animal
life and brutality.
In the old days a man wanted to look as frightful as he could,
and a big, bushy beard helped him to look frightful.
The male lion had his mane, and in that there was some com
mon sense, for it made it difficult for the other lion to bite his
neck and get at the jugular vein.
There was common sense also in the big beard on the face
and neck of our savage ancestors. For when primitive men
fought, they had long canine teeth like wolves, and they bit each
other’s faces and throats, and the whiskers probably protected
them.
But the imagined value of whiskers as a protection against
Reeth and a protection against the cold has been exploded.
And today the beard of man is simply a monstrosity that
holds the dirt, makes it dificult for the prosperous, and almost
impossible for the poor, to get their faces really clean.
The beard is a nest for disease-breeding germs of all kinds.
The doctor with whiskers who puts his ear on the chest of a
child—that, for all we know, may have scarlet fever—and then
goes on to some other child and puts the same ear and the same
set of whiskers on that other child's chest is committing a crimi
nal act, and we propose to say so quite often.
Of two doctors equally intelligent, take the one that has the
intelligence to shave his face.
'\~ The only real excuse for whiskers and mustache is the ex
cuse of the man with a weak chin or a bad, vicious, sensual, weak
or ugly mouth,
If you frankly admit that you wear hair on your face to hide
the face, then art has nothing more to say. By all means, hide it,
if it needs hiding.
- But the weak chin gets stronger when the whiskers are
shaved off. And the weak mouth gradually gets stronger when
‘the hair is cut off. The change may not come in one generation,
but it comes in several.
One word to women: Please stop praising and encouraging
- beards and mustaches. If you want to be responsible for the
Y!oolhh little mustaches that the college boys grow, and for the
silly bushy whiskers that your husbands think represent ‘‘mascu
line strength,’’ we tell you now that the French Government, in
structed by its medical scientists, officially indorses the statement
that whiskers are harmful, filthy, breeders of disease. Please
stop admiring them and persuading men to ‘‘raise’’ them.
. The great thing in a human face is expression. And there is
' Mo expression in whiskers, no matter how you trim them, or dye
them, or split them, or comb, or curl them.
~ Our sympathy is with the French barbers, who have spent a
~ lifetime conquering the art of trimming whiskers to just the right
point. Otherwise we rejoice without qualification in this result
of the war—whiskers off.
i l Inklings and Thinklings “
Rt By Wex Jones.
4 T a column headed “Activities of Women™ is the news that “Queen
~/ Mary of England always carries an umbrella.”
. The Zeppelin menace! .
~ Famous nights:
, . Arablan —— ~——ar rant. Aco—— Sir Galahad.
e 0 President Wilson's hobby musst be collecting islands,
CEy
E 5 % Ang speaking of islands, what was it the Dutch settlers paid for
. Manhattan—324 worth of beads? At that, $24 looks as if the island had
P , been marked down from 335
R Life's mysteries: Mr. Mughes having his photograph taken in
. miner's costume.
E - Famous alibls: “We withdrew to facilitate the regrouping of our
. armies.”
E . Chear up; 1t tan't the heat, it's the humidity
E What is hay fever?—Dr. Woods Hutchinson.
Just plain——well, doc, you remember what Sherman said.
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__The price of champagne corks has 33 o thousand, Takeabout
WS 10 make a cent difference to us, Rlo <
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Silence Is Not Always
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¢ DON'T Delieve in telling
I everything I know,” said
pretty little Mrs. Dimples
—*“only part of it.”
Every one laughed and then fell
to discussing the subject of what
we should tell and what we should
keep to our very own selves.
We were a goodly company of
women, eating a very goodly
lunch, and when we all started
talking at once about the habit of
telling too much, which is said
to be feminine in gender, I
couldn’t hear, really, what anyone
said, so I had a few minutes to
look at Mrs. Dimples and try to
remember what she had ever
“told” that she should not.
.1 knew her house was just what
she had always wanted. John
Dimples had let her plan it ex
actly in accord with her fondest
dreams, and John was the best
man who ever lived. I remem
bered hearing her say that many,
many times.
“Well, I am very certain it is
a bad policy to tell anyone any
thing,” sald Mrs. Sour, making
herself heard—for at last the dis
cussion had arrived at the discus
sion point. “Talk about the
weather when you're with anyone
outside your own family and avold
trouble.”
Yes, I could understand Mrs.
Sour’'s “safety first” signals.
“But what are we to do?” ex
claimed Mrs. Sociable. “You
would make us all sit here and
just eat and eat and never say a
word after the weather ceased to
interest.”
WHICH TOPICS ARE SAFE.
“Well, there are a good many
subjects similar to the weather
and equally safe,” said Miss Busi
ness. “I know a little of what
Mrs. Sour means from carrying
around with me all the time the
affairs of my two employers, and
my own. I know of an instance
where a woman happened to men
tion, when at luncheon as we are
today, that her employer would be
leaving in a week for the country
and she could then take an after
noon off now and again. The wife
of the last man in the world who
should have had that information
heard the remark and a matter
involving a big sum of money
‘fell through.” No one knew why
except the wife of the last man in
the world and her husband.”
“It doesn’t seem to me that it's
so much telling or not telling,”
spoke up the Grandmother, “as it
is a question of possessing a moral
sense.” She had listened quietly
and not said a word till now and
“ Summer Sickness
By Woods Hutchinson, M. D.
The World’s Foremost Writer on
Medical Subjects.
UR feelings toward the sum-
O mer season are curiously
mixed and conflicting. On
the one hand, we welcome it as
the season of warmth and
growth, of open windows and
breezy porches, of soft grass and
green flelds and sparkling waters
~no season to compare with the
“Good oOld Summer Time” and
nothing so “rare as a day in
June.” '
On the other hand, we look for
ward with dread and foreboding
to the sweltering heat, the gasp
ing air, the shimmer and steam
from road and pavement, and
have dark forebodings of sun
stroke and fever, of cholera mor
bus and dysentery, of wilted ap
petites and unrefreshing sleep.
| Anxious mothers worry wheth
~er their brood will win through
the summer unharmed; August
seems as If it would never come
to an end, and there is a general
feeling of relief 'and pleasure
when the tang of the first frost
crisps the alr. If we were to be
asked to name the “sickly sea
son)” the one that we are most '
uneasy about getting through
with our health unimpaired and
our strength undimihished, we
would unhesitatingly name the
sumrmer,
Part of this dread of the sum
mer solstice and the dog-days,
with their sunstroke and heat
prostration and bowel troubles of
all sorts—for it was in a swel
tering climate that the Psalmist
wrote, “Man born of woman is
few of years and full of bowel
troubles”—{s rational and well
founded enough, as many of us
can feelingly testify from the
past few weeks' experience. But
part of it is mere tradition and
inherited apprehensiveness, and
part a pure survival from ances
tral days in the seething, steam
ing tropics, the original eradle of
the human race.
Some such far-drawn memory
perhaps was simmering in the
brain of one of our militiamen
rolling toward the Texas border
through the breathless murk of a
long, hot night. About 2 o'clock
in the morning the troop train
balted at a Balf-deserted way
By WINIFRED BLACK.
we all stopped our chatter to heay
her.
“What you tell me, or do not ten
me, is, more or less, an index tq
your character,” she went on in
her impersonal voice. “If irs
Scatter-Brained came to me with
the stoty of her difficulties at
home, it wouldn’t make me sag to
hear her tale of woe. I'd simply
say to her that I'd give her just
six months to pull her wits to.
gether and run her home on her
husband’s generous allowance and
she'd find out that Will Scatten.
Brained is one of the best fal.
lows in town, and he's got a goog
wife, too. Inever knew her to szy
or do anything mean to anyona
but herself. All she needs is tg
stop talking long enough to con.
centrate a little.”
GRANDMOTHER’S DARING.
We were all about to gasp at
Grandmother’s daring, but she
turned to Mrs. Sour, who sat on
her other side, and ilnvited her for
dinner the next evening.
“No,” she went on, “T'm net
young any more. I've met a great
many people of all sorts, but I
don’t believe in being too tight
mouthed. Of course, it’s a sign of
lacking intelligence to be loose
mouthed, but I really feel that it
we all talked a little more to each
other now and then we'd havs
more charity for each other’s
failings and more love for each
other’s good sides, and it might
be we'd help each other through
telling, just 2 little.
“I've heard many people ap
plaud the criminal who protects
his partners in crime. They spoke
of him as & hero and almost
seemed to feel that if he met any
punishment it would be martyr
dom. But I've always wished |
had the power to know what
those same people would do if the
partners in crime should happen
to attack them after the escape
from justice arranged by their
loyal leader,
“And if someone you had trust
ed and loved, as a good wife
trusts and loves her husband, be
trayed you ard every ideal you
had been brought up to honor from
childhood, I would not think you
were a loose-mouthed idiot if you
screamed his crime to the very
heavens. There are times in our
lives when silence is not golden
at all—it is deadly poison.”
Every one of us was silent for
a minute when Grandmother fin
ished and then we all rose and
crowded around her to shake her
hand. There was a bright pink
spot on each of her cheeks, but
nothing else about her to indicate
that she had tasted the “deadly
poison™
station. A grouchy, sleepy voice
called out from one of the cars to
inquire the name of the station
and what State it was in. A by
stander gave the information, and
the voice grunted, sourly: “Then
I lose. I'd just bet two fellows
we was below th 'equator.”
The discomforts of a hot spell
are real enough, but so far as its
dangers to either life or health
are concerned, its bark is worss
than its bite. Instead of summier
being the sickly season of the
year, it is the healthfulest one of
all four.
The records and figures of
practically every board of health
of every city and country in the
temperate zone show that the
months of the lowest death rats
are almost invariably July and
August, while those of the highest
are February and March, making
late winter and early spring the
real sickly seasons, Spring, joyous
spring, is really the deadliest sea
son of the year, though It 18 onlv
fair to remember that this is not
because it is spring, but because
it comes just after winter.
Part of this superior healthful
ness of the heated term is due to
the fact that it is the one open
alr and open-window season of
the year. Even the most rabid
hater of fresh air has little fear
of a draught in August, and will
let you open a window without
glowering murder at you, so that
cars and offices and shops and
places of public gathering, as well
as houses, actually get a chance
to be ventilated at this season of
the year as they should be all the
year round. But more of it is due
to the much greater control which
we have gained over our environ
ment and our Increased power of
protecting our health from the
dangers of hot weather,
But, objects someone at ones,
how can this be, unless we can
control the weather or modify the
thermometer, and not even the
Weather Bureau can do that? Te
which the answer is, that the
chief danger of hot weather is
not the mere heat and its direct
effect upon our bodies and
nerves, but the changes which it
produces In our foods and our
drinks, and the ways in which
it makes easier the epread of
infections by the summer swarms
of insects, E