Had Mr. Frank Richardson been alive to-day, he would either have been in the seventh heaven of delight or in despair. The reason for this would have been that General Ho Cheng-chun of the Peking Police, acting under instructions from the Kuomintang, has announced that in future none bbe allowed to have ww while Mr. Richard he wished them abolished altogether or was goading people into wearing. them: ly one photograph showed that he himself went the length of indulging in a moustache. Rather a giveaway that, if he wanted to bring the rest of the bewhiskered people of the world into disrepute. To leave him alone, however, it is permissible to call attention to the fact that a society: for the promotion of beards existed in England-a few years ago, and,
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