The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-10-05
Mustaches Prohibited,

This is the rule at the we'll known
banking house of Messrs. Coutts 81 Co.,
80 Strand None Of the bank clerks
wears mustaches, and it has long been
considered 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 the prizes in
the banking profession. Some Of the
men are university graduates, many
have been educated at one of the great
public schools, while several have been
called to the English bar. Some years
ago an attempt was made to have the
unwritten law regarding mustaches re-
scinded, but it was found that greater
number preferred the old custom to re-
main in force than were in favor of its
abolition.
This curious custom is also said to
prevail in some of the large teahouses
In the city, while it is we'll known that
some Church of England bishops prefer
the ourates under their charge to be
clean shaven. A lady who tried about
three years ago to enforce a shaved face
on the groom in her employment, and
dismissed him at once because he refused
compliance with her order, found that
the law gave her no such power and
was mulcted in So for wrongful dis.
missal and the costs Of the action by the
Judge of the Bedford county court. -
London Standard
The LONDON JoHNNIEs.
Sons Of British Noblemen Shock Polits So
ciety by Their Goings On.
Polite society in London has had an.
other severe shock in the announcement
that one of the most eligible young men
In the matrimonial market has engaged
himself to pert young person playing
q second rate part at the Gaiety theater,
The gentleman is Maioribanks, the cid.
est son of Lord Tweedmouth, one of the
wealthiest of peers, and the lady is Miss
Birdie Sutherland, better known per
haps as the sister of Lily Harold, the
coincidence and singer Of plantation
songs, at present grazing the Drury
Lane pantomime. Nobody has ventured
to suggest that these two young women
are not as good and virtuous as they are
undeniably pretty, and it is fact that
they reside in a genteel suburb with
their widowed mother and frequently
take part in local church charity con.
certs, but all that, with additional proof |
Of severe responsibility afforded by the
foot that fhni.. 70 IL
Bank of England, is scarcely sufficienE
to justify their ambition to contract all
with a family the head Of
which is a mem Der of the British cabi. |
net.
Lord Tweedmouth asked newspaper
men in the commons lobby to contradict
the report of his sons engagement,
from which it may be assumed that he
in arranging matters. But it
would not b. at all surprising if the
match would be ratified after all
Young Majoribanks, who is familiarly
known to the habitues of the Gaiety
theater as ''the Skipper" celebrated his
majority the other day.
This infatuation is probably the result
Of the latest fad among the London
Johnnies, who indulge in exciting ri
salry to score the highest possible mum.
Der of attendanoes in the front row OF
the stalls where the most popular enter.
sainment is given. There is declared to
be the finest aggregation of female love-
iness just now in "The Shopgirl" on
he Gaiety theater stage that was ever
achieved in London. The same individ.
lals fill the front stalls night after
light. They are either very young or
very old, but the young ones predomi.
late The Sun reporter in the lobby the
'ther evening heard young Majoribanks
'oast to another sprig of nobility that it
vas his sixty second attendance The
ther appeared quite crestfallen. He
aid it was only his forty-fifth. Lon. [
ON Cor. New York Sun.