MOUSTACHES UNPOPULAR.

Matamata Record, Volume XIII, Issue 1140, 21 July 1930, Page 7

MOUSTACHES UNPOPULAR.

FOR DOCTORS AND LAWYERS. The Pittsburgh (U.S.A.) workmen who put off a fellow-worker’s moustache because they objected to such hirsute appendages merely perpetuate a prejudice common enough in Britain untir very recent years, especially in professional circles (says a-writer in the Glasgow Herald). Mr G. W. E. Russell used to tell of a “ moustachioed doctor ” whose acquaintance he made half a century ago. Everyone condemned his lip ornament as highly unprofessional, and when the poor fellow presently had a mental breakdown and was sent to an asylum, “ neighbouring doctors said they were not surprised; that there was a bad family history; and that he himself had shown signs of eccentricity—which meant his moustache and nothing else.” In judicial circles the taboo was maintained until the ’nineties, when Mr Witt, K.C., as he used to tell with tears in his voice, was compelled to sacrifice a fine cavalry moustache in deference to the demand of a new judge, who refused to let him plead before him so adorned.