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nature makes use of the colours of the face iu painting
the Beard—a reason hy the bye for not attempting to alter
the original hue, and carries off her warm and cold colours
hy that means. Never shall T forget the circumstance of
a gentleman with high colour, light hrown hair, full whis-
kers of a warm brown, deepening into a warm black, and
good looking, though his features, especially the nose, were
not regular—taking a whim into his head to shave off his
whiskers. Deprived of this fringe, the colour of his cbeeks
looked spotty, his nose forlorn and wretched, and his whole
face like a house on a hill-top exposed to the north east,
from which the sheltering plantations had been ruthlessly
removed.
The following singular fact in connection with the colour
of the Beard, I learnt in chance conversation with a hair-
dresser. Observing that persons like him with high com-
plexion and dark hair, had usually a purple black beard :
he said, "that's true, sir," and told me he had "found in
his own Beard, and in those of his customers, distinct red
hairs intermingled with the black," just as it is stated that
in the grey fur of animals there are distinct rings of white
and black hairs. This purplish bloom of a black Beard is
much admired hy the Persians; and curiously enough
they produce the effect by a red dye of henna paste, fol-
lowed by a preparation of indigo.
There is one other point connected with colour which
