The sun., 1919-08-14
WEEKS, SANS FACIAL
FOLIAGE, REDUFFED'
Justice Slaves Off His Whis-
kers and Thereby Confuses
Old Friends.
UNABLE TO PLACE HIM
Club Mates on Point Of Having
Him Thrown Out When
He Proves Identity.

Justice Barlow 8. Weeks OF the SUI
preme Court has worn whiskers for the
past thirty years, Ind has always
considerable pride In them too. because
there Is no doubt that his whiskers were
the nnest set Of facial foliage TO be
found In all the courts Of b State.
They were whiskers de luke. whiskers as
was whiskers. Competent authorities
have aid solemnly that the equal OF
Justice weeks's whiskers could not be
found this side Of Salt Lake City, where
the heads OF the Mormon Church main
tain the most perfect sets OF whiskers
In captivity.
OF course, Justice Weeks for q long
time has had a general idea that Boil
sheviki and extreme radicals wore whis-
kers of n sort, but this knowledge never
bothered him very much until noa
when two alleged Bolshevik gentlemen
filed into his court o to be arraigned.
Both wore whiskers, gorgeous whiskers'
whiskers that were absolute mates to
those Of Justice Weeks.
do all Boisheviki wear ~whiskersT'
the Justice asked Chief Clerk William
M. Penny. IL
sure" said Mr.. Penny. that's the
way most people tell them from white
folks"
Has 'Em shaved on.
Justice Weeks ruefully ran a finger
through his whiskers They felt all at
once rather uncomfortable and Bolshev-
ikish. He hated to part with them
but as soon as court had adjourned the
Justice went to a barber and the barber
shaved the whiskers from the judicial
co~untenance. And then. with this o
lifted from his face, the Justice went to
the Manhattan Club, Of which he mas
been q member for many years, ana
where he knows everybody and every
body knows him. At least, that was
what he thought.
The doorkeper, however, had other
ideas. He didn't recognise the justice
and made II unnecessarily plain that he
did not believe the Justice was a men,
Der Of the club. !.
eve been on this door for years."
he said, ~ know everybody"
well, let me in to see Mr.. Penny
pleaded Justice Weeks. He'll know
I'm a member"
Mr.. Penny was reading a magazine
on the lounge when Justice Weeks
minus the Weeks whiskers, came up ana
clapped him on the back.
"Say, Penny said the Justice, who
was the second man indicted this after
noon7"
at can't discuss that with YOU" said
Mr.. Penny in surprise. The man hasn't
been arrested yet" .
well, why can't you discuss it?'
asked the Justice.
"I don't know you," said Hi. Penny.
sand whoever you are o ought to
know that I can't discuss court business
with strangers"
His Looks Were Deceiving.
1t took a long time for the whiskerless
Justice TO persuade Mr.. Penny that he
was Justice Weeks, and then Mr.. Penny
said he hadn't recognized the Justice be-
cause the loss of the whiskers made him
look twenty years younger. But aftei
Mr. Penny was satisfied that Justice
Weeks was really Justice Weeks the
Justice moved over to a table where Jus
tice ]. Robert Luce. James Dunn and
Representative Joseph Rowan were play
ing dominos. The Justice had known al,
Of them for years. so he butted right into
the game with advice. much TO their an
vance. They gave him several polite
hints that he could enjoy himself better
elsewhere, md finally Justice Luce got
I'D and approached an attendant.
"who," he asked. lis the pest that's
interfering with our gamer
"I don't know" aid the attendant
'He said he was a member and came IN
to see Mr.. Penny. I never saw him be-
fore"
well, you go over to him." said Jus
tice Luce, and tell him II he doesn't lei
us alone you'll rave to throw him out"
50 the attendant went over n told
Justice Weeks that the gentlemen hat
complained hat he vas making
nuisance Of himself, and that II he didn'
get away from that domino game III
would be under the painful necessity o.
casting the disguised Justice into thu
cruel world. In order to prevent thai
Justice Weeks revealed his identity. al
though It was some time before Justic'
Luce and the others would believe tina
Justice Weeks without his whiskers wal
really Justice Weeks.