who having returned from his travels in the East, with this fine flow of curling comeliness, was irresistable. He followed his fate, and married, but then, alas, unhappy wretch! took one day the whim to shave off his Eastern glory. Directly his wife saw him, the charm of that ideal which every true woman forms of her lover, was broken; for instead of a dignified manly countenance, her eyes fell upon a small pinched face, with nose celestial and mouth most animally terrestial,
And such a little perking chin.
To kiss it seemed almost a sin!
IV. "That a Beard may be very comfortable in Winter but too hot in Summer!" The better races of the sons of torrid Africa wear Beards, as did the ancient Numidians, and Tyro-African Carthaginians before them. The Arab in the arid parching desert cherishes his! Arc we afraid of being warmer than these in an English Summer? Besides, as we have already shown, the Beard is a non-conductor of heat as well as cold.[1]
- ↑ It is scarcely conceivable what strange remarks have been made to me on the subject of the Beard. One party very gravely enquired whether I really thought that Adam had a Beard? Another was remonstrating with me on the first manifestations of my moustache; against whom I wickedly urged the argumentum ad feminam—you don't object to it in the military? when the daughter naively chimed in, "why you know. Sir, it is natural to them!" Two or three acute persons, one of them a lawyer, have objected, "but you have your hair cut!" To which I have replied, "yes! but I don't shave it off; and I trim my Beard instead of removing it. You also pare your nails; but you don't think of plucking them out, do you?"
