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Show British Army "Swagger" It has been said that tho English army authorities once issued an or. der that officers should not wear eye-glasses eye-glasses or spectacles, these being considered con-sidered evidence of defective sight. A number of army officers then look to wearing the monoHe, disobeying the army order by a safe margin and giving giv-ing to themselves, as it 'was thought at the llnie, an air of distinction, tho thought being something Hk-' that which prompted so ninny officers and enlisted men' to carry a short cane which came to be called a "swagger stick." . |