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Show New Police Order Forbids Wearing Monocle in Public RERUN, March 4. An order forb'd- , ding the. wearing of the monocle by officers and members of the security j police, issued by the PYuasian minister if the Interior, has brought down upon the minister a v.-ritable ava'.anche of abuse. It also haa evoked reams of argument In favor of the ancient institution in-stitution ot the single eyeglas. The minister described the wear of the monoele as "an unbeconlnfr habit" snd attributed It to the vanity of officers rather than to anx-weak-n as nf the eye. His critics accuse him of being deficient de-ficient in anatomicBl knowledge, of makit g a grandstand play to the pro-i pro-i letariat. and -of a malicious attempt to overthrow an old. honored and common com-mon tier man Institution. A man's two eyes are very seldom of equal soundness, it Is pointed out. and the use of Vpectacles miht injure a sound eye while aiding the weak member Therefore, it is argued, the custom im well established on physical grounds. Th? majority of the commentators scornfully reject the minister e reasons rea-sons for the order that the monocle Is an affectation and amacks of i.trn-archial i.trn-archial time. They argue that the r e eyeglass ruatom pre ails In such dmocratic countries as Kngland and even to some extent In America-One America-One part iclpant In the frav thinks the monocle wearer Is not getting a square deal. Any man who can man age to hold a round piece of glass between be-tween his eyebrow and his cheek t one ought to be rewarded with a medal of n'trit for exceptional skill, instead if being rcpri mended. |