The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-22
SHAKE BAD INSTEP
Americans Overseas Put On o
Slipper Appearance.
San FARRELL Writes of Adven-
lures ON the BOuIeyards.
WANTED SHsa,.--, GOT SHAMPOO
Algerian Warrior Told of Thir-
ty Wives and Jewels.
Then, Incidentally, He Asked
Loan of Hall Franc.

Every American soldier over here,
says Sanford farrell. formerly q re-
porter for the State Journal. and now
IN France with the f30 Field Arti1-
lery. or at least a greater per cent of
them. are displaying a wee bit OF ia
cial foliage on the upper lip.
Some of the E1ustachios," says
San" ARE a Ia Partisan, while some
are OF the ChapIinesque type. My ef-
fort along the line OF facial orna-
nenrarion is a sort OF mild Partisan
along the same artistic line as that OF
Phil Sproat before he joined the army.
Paul Mcfarland. who formerly
vas in command of Battery A. but
who now commands a battalion OF
three batteries. still refuses to enhance
the beauty so bounteously bestowed
upon him by nature. Several others
have clean-shaven upper lips but
downy misplaced eyebrows on the
higher altitude OF their unkissed lips.
With their mustachios and cute little
overseas caps and spiral wooden put
tees and smart sticks and cigarette
holders, the American soldiers over
hare shakes a wicked tnstep while
pron1enading along the gravel paths
in the parks.
Barber shop Adventures.
THE French BARRIERS love to attend
an Americans mustache. The other
night I dropped into a 'coifreur' or
barber shop and, in French, ordered a
shave. He misunderstood nre and
gave me a shampoo, and then he
shaved me with razor as old as the
choicest Sauterne in France. When
he had completed this torture, he put
enough talcum on my face to choke a
yoke Of oxen, and then he brushed 1t
OF my face with a brush he later used
on my shaggy locks.
After that my friend took a tooth
f7r-Tv - -, a
and brushed up my mustache.
Showing that Il barber is a barber
apologies 10 Bert Patch) whether in
Topeka or in France or in Hindustan,
my tonsoriaI artist, in his classic Ian
guage, told me the wonders of a GER
tain tongue and rather than have
my arm talked or I followed the an
Gent custom of barber shop patrons
by saying 'Oui. QUIZ 7 would hardly
call it i hair tonic. It was a per-
fume, of a particularly aromatic type,
and walked out of that barber shop
resem bling. in everything but personal
appearance. a gorgeous flower garden.
Algerian Looked Imposing.
''Strolling down the boulevard from
the perfume shop, I ran into Corp.
Thomas II. Parry and Corp. John 1.
Lewis, VINO were in a tea garden. An
Algerian sergeant dropped in and sat
glass Office water. He was a distin-
guished looking Mohammedan swith
the Croix de Guerre and a dozen other
medals on his breast. John I. had
acquired a knowledge OF Arabic when
he was secretary to his father, Lieu
tenant Governor Lewis OF Colorado,
and who was also Interested in fig and
date importation, and he spent two
years in northern Africa
Il bet John a box Of cigars that this
fellow was the son OF an Algerian
chteftain, because I figured that a
dude with so many gingerbread or
naments mus be somebody. John
thought the Algerian was a barber
back in Algiers. so he started a con-
versation in Arabic and this is what
the Algerian Beau BrummeI said:
Thirty Wives and Jewels:
Ny father is a sheik over a vast
territory in the Sahara. There are
nine cases on the old mans place
Hes the big cheese. 1 am a chip off
the old block I have a harem in Al
geria with thirty wives. count 'em.
thirty. I have Il palace with gold ia
beware and great bags OF jewels,
some rocks.
BY the way. old pal. sould you
lend me half a france
John did. 1t was worth it"