The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-31
KANSAS COMMENT
4 BRIrIsH INVASION.


Regardless of the new-fangIed ar
bitration treaty, and the good feeling
which attended the coronation cere-
monies, it seems this lard of the free
is going TO have trouble with its moth
err country. God save the king and the
rest of the deck, but it is the king in
Significant in government affairs. but
large in coronation, social and fashion,
able performances who seems about to
start the combat. Everyone is familiar
with the face of good King George as
done by the photographer and over
looked by the barber. and his need of
a shave has been felt around the
world. OF course his father before
him ran a good deal to Whiskers, be-
sides doing more or less other racing
that didn't look well in the society
ward having been an older man before
he began Ringing, and therefore less
likely to influence youth
Comes now the New York World
with tale of how whislers are sweep
ing London, not made up in brooms as
extensively by all the youth who can
coax them out with cream, and by
many men old enough to know better.
Already New York, which gets its
fashions from London, in exchange for
heiresses and other exports. is show
LIS S4G44S III DOyCOlIl1S tie OdI OEAs OO
1t Is natural enough that New York,
with its usual confidence that it is
America, sees a large and widespread
increase in facial spinach over all the
land.
But do not be discouraged. Shades
of Washington and Andy Jackson,
have not other British iavasions been
repealed? Nor shall we bow meekly
to this latest edict of royalty. Let
New Workers toady and feather out
their chins if they will. but it shall
not be so over the rest of the nation.
Time was when Kansas was noted for
whiskers, but let it be Known that roy
atty didn't prompt or influence the
flowing names of populism, nor are We
now, a fairly c1ean-shaven people, pre-
pared to bend the knee to the British
throne. Let the Emporia Gazette be
alert. Deacon House put on his wa
paint and the safety razor manufac-
turers do more advertising The en-
envy has landed in New York, ana
should be swatted promptly if it at
tempts to go abroad in tie land. Let
New York dictate the styles in chorus
girls and eravats if it will, but a mans
chin is his castle, If he hiss one, and if
he hasn't he has a better excuse than
the king can offer for letting the hair
grow where it viii become entangled
in the soup.
Up and at them. Make the whisk-
erS. fly. swat the Wh1SkerS ny. Break
the British square; also the British
Vandyke, Dundreary, or any other
hirsute monstrosity which tries to
sneak in without paying duty.-Atchi-
son Globe.
DAWSONS WAY A WINNER
Dawson. with his Scotch caution,
thought it best to delay bringing al
custer suit against Sheriff Martin until
he had sufficient evidence to make his
case sure. The result shows that the
time taken for investigation was not
wasted. Governor Stubs. believing,
perhaps. that a little evidence would
go a long way in a prosecution of that
character, was impatient because Daw-
son was not ready to start the suit at
the drop of the gubernatt rial hat. In
the final roundup it Will he found that
slower, but surer methods adopted by
the attorney general have in no way
impeded the inforcem ent of the law
ILeavenworth Post.