Show Kings Edict Quickly Obeyed In all the German papers of August 1838 appeared an ordinance signed by tho king of Bavaria forbidding civilians on any pretext whatever to wear moustaches and commanding the police authorities to arrest tho offenders and shave them by force Apparently this was not necessary for according to a French account of tho time moustaches disappeared Immediately like loaves from tho trees In autumn everybody made haste to obey the royal order and not ono person was wrested The ancient AngloSaxon was not so obedient obe-dient he wore long hair and a moustache mous-tache though no beard and when ho was conquered by the cleanshaven Norman he woVo his hair longer than ever to exaggerate the difference between be-tween the two races |