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HOW TO WEAR THE BEARD.

Most of our counsels hitherto on this subject of beauty are as applicable to the one as the other sex. If we have spoken as though it were solely the more beautiful half of the race we were addressing, it has been out of gallantry, and not because our advice is suited to them alone. Like the popular lecturer, we address our audience as "Ladies and Gentlemen," letting the lords come last; like the heralds at the ancient tournaments, we have approached with the cry, "Place aux dames." But the laws of beauty are the same in spirit, applied to all mankind.

Now, however, we have a few words to say to the male sex on the hygiene and artistic arrangement of that natural characteristic peculiarly their own—the beard.

We broach the subject with a becoming sense of its importance, for the beard is no indifferent matter. All