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Show Mnstnrlics Prohibited. This is the rnlo at the well known banking house of Messrs. Coutta & Co., 69 Strand. None of the bank clerks wears mustaches, and it has long been aonsiderod a point of business etiquette that all the gentlemen employed at the bank should wear frook coats during business hours. A clerkship at Messrs. Coutts' is considered one of tho prises id tho banking profession. Somo of the men aro university graduates, many have been educated at ono of the great public schools, while several have been called to the English bar. Some year3 ago an attempt was made to have the unwritten law legarding mustaohes rescinded, re-scinded, but it was found that a greater number preforred tho old custom to remain re-main in force than were in favor of its abolition. This curious oustom 13 also said to prevail in somo of the largo teahouses in tho city, whilo it is well known that Home Church of England bishop3 prefei the curates under their charge to be clean shaven. A lady who tried about threo years ago to enforce a Bhaved faoe on tho groom in her employment, and dismissed him at once because ho refused compliance with her order, found that the law gave her no such power and was mulcted in 3 for wrongful dismissal dis-missal and the costs of tho action by the tudgo of tho Bedford comity court. Loudon Standard |