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Show OBJECT TO SHAVING -4U Waiters of Paris Up in Arms Over Order. Cafe Proprietors Insist That Servitors Servi-tors Must Leave Off Lip Fringe. Paris. Walters in seven or eight of the largest cafes on the Paris boulevards boule-vards have been stirred to angry protest pro-test by orders to shave their mustaches mus-taches or quit. One of the bitterest grievances the waiters had when they went on strike last April was the edict of the employers em-ployers to the effect that waiters must sacrifice their mustaches. The waiters wait-ers triumphed and the employers agreed they should be permitted to adorn their visages as they pleased. Now an attempt to revive the bnn on mustaches has roused their indignation "The waiters are sufficiently humiliated humil-iated to have to earn their living by extending their hands to receive what often proves to be a ridiculous tip. without being forced to forego one of the privileges of manhood." said the secretary of the union. "Really the ferocious employers know little about psychology. Should they maintain this iniquitous measure, destined solely sole-ly to give their staff a servile appearance appear-ance toward the customer, they are picking out a poor time for It. "Whether through snobbishness or in the hope of appearing original, customers cus-tomers choose to make their faces as glabrous ami depilated as that of the Americans, or aim to copy the two commas on the upper lip of a well-known moving picture actor; that is their business. We must Insist that the conventions entered into st the time of the strike be respected ; that the mustache has always beer In vogue in France, and to suppress It is an Indignity and diminishes the morale, mor-ale, value and patriotism of the personnel per-sonnel of the cafes." |