Show FAIRBANKS LOSES BEARD Former Vice President Photographed In China Without Brush on His Chin Washington Former Vice Vice- dent Fairbanks has shaved oft off his beard This means almost as much as If it some vandal had shaved the Washington Washing Washing- ton monument off the White lot The Fairbanks beard has been as much a apart apart apart part of the Washington facial topography topo topo- raphy graphy as the monument Is a part of the map of the capital The news has has' not been received by wireless or any other form of r r l r Mr Mr Fairbanks Without Beard raphy it came more conclusively viz In n the form of a photograph of ot the ex ex- vice-president vice taken in China The photograph was received In a bale of at correspondence from the orient The photograph pictures a group of Important officials standing on a aver veranda veranda ver ver- anda In Pekin In the middle is Mr Fairbanks There Is no mistake about him nim he is twice as tall taU as the surroundIng surrounding surrounding sur sur- rounding Chinese He is also slender like the lily llly and he wears his familiar rock frock coat It is Mr Fairbanks But the brush is gone He has preserved merely the flowing mustache The chin is exposed to the merciless gaze of the beholder |