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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2630, 27 November 1915, Page 6

Military etiquette, says an exchange, is always relaxed in war time, and we are passing . now through, much the same phase as in Crimean days, when officers who had grown beards and acquired a taste for tobaoco through long months in. the trenchos exhibited their beards and cigars in Piccadilly. Officers back from the _ front no longer bring their beards with them, but they smoko pipes in public places—a breach of decorum which would have been impossibln beforo the war. Worse even than that—in tho opinion of tho retired colonel, who vioivs tho outrage moodily from the windows of the "Rag" —is that the subaltern has taken to carrying his own hag, and not infrequently exposes evidence that ho has boon shopping. London, Sir James TJarrio once observed, is the only place ho knows where a man may cat a penny bun in the streot without attracting undesirable attention, and wo may sea the day when the one star offiocr will v\Ase n that eiawrimont.