Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-03-07
ouR NEW YORK LETTER.

5srsItl0A-ilte temperance HaOCement.
/ FEMALE BARRIERS.
J Two women, at least, have secured
their rights, andhave now secured all the
privileges that men enjoy. Two very
pretty young girls, aged respectively IS
ami 20, had papa who was rich and
who lived i'll grand style on Filth ave
nue. Papa got into the hands OF the
Philistines last autumn, and busted. The
girls, were genuine girls. notwithstanding
the fact that they had been fashiOnably
educated, and they felt their poor fathers
distress keenlE The old genleman''s
trouble so weighed upon his mind that he
siekened and took to his bed. and get in
to bad way generally. The house in
which he lived was fortunately in his
uife's name, so they could not be turned
out Of doors, but as the old gentleman had
sunk every dollar he had in the world,
the question of bread and butter became
AL imminent one.
One morning the old gentleman's bar
Der did not come around 10 shave him
and Ella, the eldest girl, said she could do
it. She took her iather's implements
and shaved Lin as nicely and neatly as
any tonsoriaI artist could do it, aud
dressed Ills hair and trimmed his whisk-
ers, and propped him up in bed as com
Portable as you please. An idea struck
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Ella. ifyou can shave papa. you can
shave any other man."
True" said Ella.
"Iryou can shave man I can shave
man"
True once more. But what has that 10
do with US ?"
ELLA do you want to starve ?"
No, my child"
Papa can't get out-Mamma is selling
off the plate to get what we eat each
day Let US stop all this by starting
barber-shop."
Ella saw the point The Two girls
rugged up an extempore chair-they took
their eoachman, whom they had not yet
dismissed, because be wouldn't go, and
they shaved him for practice, and dressed
his hair and trimmed his beard every
day. To accommodate them he brought
his friends in, and in a weeks time the
girls were accomplished and expert work
men, or rather work women.
Then they sold the horse and carriage
and taking the proceeds fitted up a mod
est but very neat shop in Union Square
and went at it. The first customers they
had were young swells who had known.
Them "iu society,"" and great was their
astonishment -f .r- f.,f'f il.,-..sef E
Miss Navy" said one of them,; ."by
Jove, what led you TO this 2" ad .a;esr-
Papa failed you know Charles, and
we had TO do this--or wOrse.p .1s
"Worse worse Why, what could
you do that would be worse fPifrp s.i9i-
Marry a man like you ~ replied Mary
dabbing her shaving brush in has mouth,
It.is an encouraging fact that the girls
have all they can do, at good prices, and
are not only supporting their parents in
/ comfort, but are laying up a handsome
sum besides. "-'
Why should not women be BARRIERS +?
Imagine the deft, soft, warm fingers of a
pretty girl on your face A man would
submit willingly 10 have his nose sliced
off by one of them. cannot say that it
is il. any way out of tie way. If men are
employed in lady's shoe stores, where
they put on and take off lady's boots, why
/ is ii not just as proper for women to be
employed as BARRIERS to shave meh2 They
do it better and more pleasantly than the
men BARRIERS, and customers would never
be afraid that a drunken woman barber
would cut their throats. ...4 .g..
WHY THE BOYS DON'T GET ON. .ifyj
A great many young men who come
from the country to New York, and get
tolerably good salaries, find themselves
at the END of the year in debt, and they
wonder why it is. The young gentleman
is, we will say, book-keeper. on a salary
of $4,000. He pays IL per week for board
which leaves him about 81 400, and he
calculates to lay by something OF that
But he don't and this is the way:-....-.
Board per year ................ $62400
Clothes ................ 10000
Total.................... $S24OO
Then comes the little expenses as fol-
lows: .. .....4, ...s r. j..
Backing boots, 10 cents per day s 36 so
Morning and afternoon papers,. 80 10
Three drinksp per day, 10 cents each 164 25
Four cigars per day at 10 cents each 146 90
Shaving twice per week, 10 cts. each 10 so
Attending theatre twice week, sea-
son of 9 months. ........,..... 72 90
-Four games OF billiards per week 1900
Street car fare, 10 cents each day 36 so
b. Total. $50 70
He gets into Society," Society de!
mands a dress suit, which costs S125, and
society demands that when be attends a
party or dinner that he put on white
neckties, and light kid gloves, at S25 a
pair. And society, inexorable that she is,
demands that he shall take Araminta 10
the opera once in awhile, which means
gloves, neckt les, boquets and carriage
which, with seats at four dollars each,
means thirty dollars for the nights
amusement And SO Augustus di scovers
at the end of the year that his two thou
sand dollars are all gone and he has over
drawn five hundred or one thousand, and
he commences peculation or speculation
the same thing SO far as results go-
and Augustus drinks to drown his trouble
and finally he lands in the Tombs and
comes out poor miserable wretch. This
is what happens to a great many Au-
gustuses. Society is what does it fol
them. E .a,
DIsTRE SIS. .- f-..
The distress among the sick unemployed
people.in New York at this time is terri
BILE Much has been done by the charit-
able to relieve it, but not one dollar has
been given where ten should be- Young