Honolulu Republican, Volume IV, Number 498, 16 Ianuali 1902 — BUSINESS AND BEARDS. [ARTICLE]

BUSINESS AND BEARDS.

From the N>» York Times Whether a N-w Yorker wears a mustache, side whiskers, or a fall beard, or nndertakes to keep his face clean shaven often has little or noth :ng to do with the demands of :-c--lividsai taste or good judgment. If a meeting of physicians at the | Academy of Medicine in Forty-third i street is fully attended, it is almost t always a safe wager that there wi’l ; be less than tea m*=n In the room i who do not wear fall beards, and • The chance* are completely against there being over three clean shaei \ men preent. At the bar association, on the con J I rrary. a large majority of the law ! yers present at most of the meetings are clean shaven, and most cf the others only wear mustaches. Down at a meeting of merchants in th a assembly hall of the chamber of r ttnmerce. nearly e'v.v conceira b!r variety of sedate venerable, ornate and eccentric beards may be seen. Underwriters are exceedingly dissimilar as to their taste regarding j whiskers. On the floor of the stock exchange mustach- s and clean shaven 1 divide the honors almost to the ex ; elusion of beards except on occasions j when the older members for some particular reason are attracted to the , floor. Bankers most often content themselves with mustaches, but there arc many deviations. As for government employes in the sub-treasury, the assay office and custom house, one never knows what to expect.