Moustaches Forbidden.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 216, 20 August 1887, Page 7

Moustaches Forbidden.

It is curious to recall the changes which have taken place in Boston (say a correspondent) in regard to the wearing of whiskers and moustaches. In my boyhood a moustache was a badge of indifference to respectability, and a young business man who ventured to wear one found his credit the worse for the experience. I recall a story told me of. the head of a dry goods house, whose son, on his return from Europe, was received very coldly by the " govenor. This became so noticeable that one of the junior partners took the young man aside and told him that the cause of his father b displeasure was his moustache, Ihis turned out to be true. When the « moustache movement " had acquired some headway, an eccentric merchant of the old school, who had observed that some of his clerks had yielded to its attractions, gave notice that while he opposed the tendency he was willing to make a compromise with such of his employe's as were in favour of it. Calling his clerks together, he made a short address on the dangers of trifling with the proprieties which custom had established, arid ended by saying,," I do not propose td wholly restrict the gentlemen ,m my employ from wearing moustaches, but I cannot allow them to be worn in, business .houjs.

, Germany rigidly enforces a W, prohibiting" the use of tobacco by anyone' Under eighteen.