A Fifteen-Foot Beard

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 21, 16 April 1927, Page 20 (Supplement)

A Fifteen-Foot Beard

WHEN the moustache is severely pruned and restricted, as in these days, it is certainly refreshing to read of the gentleman of Berlin whose upper lip is embellished with an affair 28 inches in length. His claim to be the moustache king of the world would, on the face of it, appear to be well founded. But one cannot help being a little oppressed by the thought of how much expense and agony of mind the upkeep of this tonsorial kingdom must bring to our Berliner. At a theatre he must have to occupy two seats for. fear of the cheeks of his next-door neighbours. In the streets in windy weather it is likely to be an extremely embarrassing possession, while bedtime must be a torture in case in his sleep he should incautiously turn over and squash the thing out of shape. Again ; there must always be the fear that an enemy will come by night and with a scissors deprive the moustache king of his kingdom. It is a precarious basis on which to be enthroned. The toothbrush, although undistinguished, is safer. The Sacramento Whiskerino Club, organised some four years ago in t*he California capital, has been made heir to the fifteen-foot beard of Eachary Taylor Wilcox, 79, Civil War veteran of Carson City, capital of Nevada, who died there. The beard is reputed to have been the second longest hirsute adornment in America, Wilcox having come out second best in a tournament

j contest at Sacramento during the I whiskerino contest ciiere four years

After the Sacramento gathering, Wilcox returned to Carson City and drew up a will in which he left liis whiskers to the Sacramento Whiskerino Club. Shortly afterward he was injured in an automobile accident

which kept him to his home until recent months. Just before interment the board of Wilcox will he shorn to comply with the provisions of his will, and the w’hiskers will then be sent to the Sacramento Whiskerino Club.

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