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WILL THERE RE EPIDEMIC 4F" WHISKERS ?

We are warned by one of the prophets of "fashion that beards are to be warn Dnes store. Upon what signs sad tokens the prediction is founded does sppear, ways the Daily Telegraph, which proceeds: It is Barilly to be contended that the beard has becoine a more caramen object, or that in social intercourse a new interest in beards is to be observ.

ed; but we would not discredit the prophet. What the impulse is which inspires one century with a desire for bearda is as much a mystery na that craving for the razor which marks unother. Noman knows why beards grew again in Victorian Eng land. after two hundred years of sharing. It is easy to say chat King Edward VII, set the fashion, but that only puts the dificulty in another manner. We cannot tell why the Prince of Wales of Queen Vic- torin's reign should have chosen to wear what no King had worn since Charles I. But the changes of fashion have been many, even ia our own land. We will not la quire why Pericles wore a beard, but not Julius Caerur, or why no Fope before Julius II. had auffäred hair to grow upon his ebin. According to the Bayeux tapestry, Edward the Confoor had a beard, but not Harold The Normans who came over with the Conqueror were clean-shaven, but it was a new fashion in Normandy. Though a vehement prelate called barded mon "filthy goats and bristly Saracens," thers was for four hundred years no dominant fashion in England. Moustaches, beards, and shaver faces were all to be found. Henry V. made shaving the rule until beards came in again with Henry VIII. But, lest any man is alarmed by that precedent, let us uld that the first Defender of the Faith was only following a European fashion sanctioned by the Pope Julius II. afore said and the Emperor. Charles V. The Elizabethans were bearded, and very elaborately, for they cut their heards to al manner of shapes, perfumed them, Uyed them, starched then, powdered then Under the first Stuarts the beard- became a chin tuft. By the beginning of the eighteenth century every man was clean shaved. At the end of it mos taches and whiskers were coming in again. At first these decorations were military. Everybody remembers how Clive Newcome, who was only a painter, amused the Marquis of Fariniosh by wearing mou- staches.In the middle of the century Dickens went abroad clean-shaven and grew himself a pair. They are beautiful, beau- tiful," he wrote. Without the life would be a blank" George IV. tentured upon whiskers, but William IV. shaved chain. In the year 1840 George Frederick Muntz who, to be sure, was a desperate Radical, brought a huge black beard" into the House of Coinmots, where such a thing had not been seen for two wenturies, and timid folk expected the immediate end of all things The Prince Consort let hair grow on his face, and whiskers became longer and longer; but even in 1857 people. thought it desperately bold of Livingstone to brave the prejudice of his country- by wearing a moustache, and with in the last forty years a "bishop was blamed for wearing a beard. Who knows what the next turn of fashion may be? Until the war it seemed that the clean- shaven face was likely to become the rule once

The war's crop. of moustaches stil Bourishes, and anything may happen next even a new Dandreary.

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YOU MAY LIBEL YOUR WIFE. RECORDER ACQUITS A HUSBAND.

Can a man libel his wife?

This question had to be decided by the Recorder (Sir Ernest Wild, K.C.) at the Old Bailey on May 16th.

"

William Anthony, Barter, aged thirty- four, a draughtsman, was indicted for pub Haking a defamatory libel concerning his wife, Elsie Alice,

Mr. Frederick Levy, defending, sub- mitted that the indictment was bad because no offence was disclosed. He quoted the leading case on the subject, in which it was held that a married woman could not take proceedings against her husband for de- famatory libel Mr. Levy moved that the indictment be quashed,

The Recorder (reading from the decision referred to): "A libel might raise angry passions and a desire for revenge, which might lead to a breach of the peace." I suppose the learned judge thought the angry passions ought to be settled in the domestic forum?"

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Mr. Levy: That is what he suggests, 'The Recorder: If a man, bite his wife, she has a remedy. But if he inficts the more severe injury of writing libellous post- cards she has no remedy.

Mr. Levy said that Barter desired him to say that he was sincerely sorry that he had caused his wife pain. He had written a letter from Brixton Prison which contained such phrases na: “I solemnly, promise not to repeat the statements."

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ideration of this apology I crave the honour of forgiveness." Mr. Levy said ho desired to withdraw any imputation against the wife..

The Eccorder referred to the libel as cowardly and unmanly. The indictment was quashed, and Barter was discharged.

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