Show A SINGULAR WARFARE it Is waged by the K on wait era who wear mustaches A vienna paper says A curious wager is at present occupying the attention of such widely separated classes as our young noblemen and the association of hotel and res in this capital several of the young scions of the highest austrian aristocracy who were accustomed to dine in an old hotel of high repute in the kasthner sc took exception to the practice of the waiters most of whom have seen twenty or thirty years arvice in dressing their mustaches in just the same fashion as the noble they had to serve one of the highborn high born customers accordingly laid a wager which was immediately accepted that within a given time the ob adornment should disappear from the upper lips of the waiters in all the fashionable hotels and restaurants in vienna otherwise the himself was to shave off his own embellishment for a given period in order to effect his purpose the latter i commenced by trying io persuade the j hotelkeeper hotel keeper in the kasthner strasse to forbid all his servants wearing musi baches on penalty of losing his aristo cratic customers in this case he ceedee but the waiters who were mostly married men one after another gave notice to leave their places they were at once replaced by younger men who for a consideration submitted to the imposed humiliation the same thing happened in a number of oth cr hotels and restaurant sand the ager was nearly won by the layer when the proprietor of the hotel impe aal the hotel in vienna flatly re fadd to comply with the whim of the vienna jeunesse doree whom be told they deserted his house icon ld readily find better customers aili ri bebas also taken up as matter of liht and honor by the association waiters which threatened to expel from alie society any member degraa ing humoring aristocratic caprice in this matter thus the matter izands at the pres moment the bet appears liKely to be lo stand then will triumph of the waiters who expect soon fo have the satisfaction of teeing their would be dictators instead of themselves going about with shaven lips |