MAN WHO SHAVES THE KAISER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 304, 28 December 1907, Page 6

MAN WHO SHAVES THE KAISER.

INVESTOR OK THE FAMOUS LTTCKMiii MOUSTACHE. One day last month a man came down Castle Hill, Windsor, whose likeness to the Kaiser was so remarkable that the sentries would have presented arms hau they not known that his Imperial .Ma jesty was out shooting. IVople in the street stopped, turned round, and stared at the rhort figure in the dark bine over coat and bowler hat, the tierce nioustacbva turned up in the familiar fashion. and the firm, stem lace. "It is the Kaiser," said a lady admiringly.. But it was nut. The gentleman who is the Kaiser"s double is M. Francois Uaby. He is one of the most famous men in Germany. He is the lloffriscur, the Kaiser's barber, who goes wita Ids Majesty everywhere, and who has shaved him for the last decade or more. But for M. lialiy the Kaiser moustache would be unknown in Germany. He invented it, and achieved immortality at a bound. Years ago he perfected a toilet water called "Es ist Erreicht"—which is a German.way of saying •'Eureka "—and introduced it to the Kaiser. It is this special water which keeps the ends of the imperial moustache in their upright position. -Ks ist Erreicht" has become a German proverb now. Every evening M. Ilaby shave- hi- Ma jesty. The work is done in absolute silence—the I'riitce of lkirbers never -n much as mentions the state of the weather, The Kai-er read- correspondence during the shaving, and sometimes signs 3 document or two. Knee hiis Majesty suggested that trto much lime was wa-ted by the lathering, whereupon M. Ha by went away and locked himself up in .1 mom. When lie came out hr had perfected a preparation which makes lathering unnci-es-ary. The Kaiser is shaved without s"ap to this day.