From Jugend, 1898.

"Prince Constant touched her forehead with the dwarf's beard."  From Queen Mab's Fairy Realm, 1901.

"An old grave man appeared to me."  From The Arabian Nights Entertainments, 1899.

"Permit me to cut off some of it."  From The Arabian Nights Entertainments, 1899.

"I sat in patient silence while my wife used sheet after sheet of paper."  From Harmsworth Magazine, 1899.

"A photograph that is on Russia's black list: Father Arsenii.  This photograph has been prohibited by the police of Russia.  It represents Father Arsenii, who is worshipped by thousands of peasants, and is said to have sworn that he will execute the Tsar before six months have passed."  From The Sketch, 1906.

"He grasped his staff and pulled off his false beard."  From Queen Mab's Fairy Realm, 1901.

From Popular Mechanics, 1927.

From The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde and Other Stories by Mary de Morgan, 1880.  Also very much of interest: The Young Wizard's Hexopedia.

From The Boy Apprenticed to an Enchanter by Padraic Colum, 1920.

"The learned phrenologist."  From Fables in Slang by George Ade and illustrated by Clyde J. Newman, 1899.

"Sensation scene at the hop-scotch reunion."  From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1880.

"Name your beard, gentlemen."  From Popular Mechanics, 1929.

From Die Muskete, 1915.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click twice to lengthen the beard. From Die Muskete, 1916