On 2015-10-08, Embudo > wrote:

> Soon to return - the van dyke...

Perhaps not. Turns out the beard fell out of fashion in the early
20th century due to the discovery that tuberculosis was passed by
coughing and that the infectuous sputum might rest on one's own
whiskers. We are now seeing multiple drug-resistant tuberculosis
(MDR-TB), so the beard may go the way of the slide rule, once more.

I've worn a van dyke for years, but only cuz my fuller beard looks
terrible. I let it grow out a bit in Winter to keep my face warm.

nb