PRICE OF A MOUSTACHE.
An ex-flunkey has brought an action against the Chinese Legation at Paris for £4 damages for the loss of his moustache. Some time ago, the "Telegraph" says, M. X., who boasted a splendid moust_che, sacrificed it that he might enter the service of the Chinese Legation as valet at £3 a month. M. X. would have accepted the sacrifice as an unfortunate necessity in this present ill-organised world had his position been permanent. But when in a week he got his n^rching
orders, and was left sans moustache and sans situation, he sought lesal satisfaction. He means to plead, among tbe injuries done him by his shaven state, the loss of tho affections of a eomfortablv dowered fiancee. The court will also bo invited to study tho photograph of M. X. when nioustached liko a dragoon, looking first on this picture and then on that, presented'by the denuded plaintiff, to appraise the esthetic prejudice sustained by him.
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Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14832, 25 November 1913, Page 6
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161PRICE OF A MOUSTACHE. Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14832, 25 November 1913, Page 6
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