| Show KING WILLIAMS MUSTACHE s HOW TRAINING OF FAME AND GAIN TO THE BARBER 1 kaiser willielmo Willi elms mustache has been a popular subject of discourse ever since ho adopted the extraordinary fashion of wearing it turned upward at the ends and running parallel with his noso until it almost reaches his eyelashes the story of its origin has never been fully told before this strange style was the invention of A barber named diaby who was for a time an object of almost as much curiosity as alie emperor himself in 1887 kniser had a very ordinary kind of mustache and he trimmed it in the ordinary way one day adjutant von hullen a german army dandy appeared at the palace with tho ends of his mustache turned up just in alie style that the kaiser wears today who did itt inquired emperor william diaby a barber on was the reply 1 I wonder if he could fix mine that wayt 1 I have no doubt your majesty send him to me said the kaiser and on the following day all berlin was excited over a startling change in tho facial aspect of the sovereign diaby trained alie keisers kaisers Kai sers mustache combing brushing bending and coaxing it in the way ft should go and in doing so he became famous every man with a mustache wanted it trained a la kaiser and wanted diaby to train it then the fashion spread to the ranks of civilians and soon everybody from field marshals down to the laborers of the field were wearing the kaifer mustache ninety per cent of the male population of germany endeavored to turn their mustaches so that they would point to the stars like the horns of a deer diaby made the most of hiis op ties lie enlarged his shop which is in the center of the cafe district anu hired a dozen additional barbers whose chief business was to train the mustaches of the military men diaby himself spent most of his time with his imperial patron accompanying him upon all of his journeys because to properly train a mustache in the way it should go requires assiduous attention he accompanied the kaier party to the holy land and visited england cussia austria and constantinople in the imperial retinue ho received so many decorations that he became dizzy and the emperor had to dismiss him |
