THE KAISER'S MOUSTACHE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9165, 8 June 1908, Page 6

THE KAISER'S MOUSTACHE.

The Eaiser has altered his style of wearing his moustache (says the Daily Mail’s Berlin correspondent). Thirty million loyal Teutons, the estimated male population of the Empire, are directly affected, for to trim one’s moustache in the martial manner imruortialised by the Emperor has become an unwritten law of masculine patriotism throughout the Fatherland. It is stated that the Kaiser has decided to do away with the familiar, bristling, upwardpointing effect which lias so long given his countenance an aspect of fierceness, and will henceforth wear his moustache with the ends long drawn out and with only the remotest suggestion of perpemdicnlarity. This revoluntary change, which will cause the caricaturists of the world to revise their whole conception of the ' Imperial physiognomy, appears to have been forced upon the Emperoi rather than chosen by him. It is related that while his Majesty recently was lighting a cigarette the en t d of his moustache was singed and half burnt off. This necessitated the cutting off of the other end to make the moustache again symmetrical. The new formation evoking the lively admiration of the Empress, the Kaiser determined to retain it.