Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-03-06
Correspondence.
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OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
FEMALE BARBERS-TWO PLUCKY GIRLS

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FEMALE BARBERS-TWO PLUCKY GIRLS
YOUNG MANS EXPENsEs-DIsTREss-
ONE CASE-DREsS SREFORM-BUSINESS-
CONvERSATION-THE TEMPERANCE
MOVEMENT.
NEW YORK, March 3, 1874.
FEMALE BARRIERS.
Two women, at least, have secured their
rights, and have now all the privileges that
men enjoy. Two very pretty young girls,
age respectively Is and 20, had papa who
was rich, and who lived in grand style on
Fifth avenue. Papa got into the hands of
the Philistines last autumn, and busted.
The girls were genuine girls, notwithstand
ing the fact that they had been fashionably
educated, and they felt their poor fathers
distress keenly. The old gentleman's trou-
BILE so weighed upon his mind that he sicken-
ed and took to his bed, and got into bad
way generally. The house in which he lived
was fortunately in his wife'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 but
ter became an imminent one.
One morning the old gentleman's barber
did not come around to shave him, and
Ella, the eldest girl, said she could do it,
She took her fathers implements and
shaved him as nicely and neatly as any
tonsorial artist could do it, and dressed his
hair and trimmed his whiskers, and
prOpped him I'D III bed as comfortable as
you please. An idea struck Mary, the
younger.
Ella, you can shave papa, you can
shave any other man.
True said Ella.
"If you can shave man / can shave
man,
True, once more. But what has that
to do with us ?''
! ELLA, do you want to starve 20
mo, 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
/ coachman, whom they had not yet dis
missed, because he 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
! g. IL, IL tl nil II
were accomplished and expert workmen, or
rather wOrkwomen.
Then they sold the horses and carriages,
and taking the proceeds fitted up q modest,
but very neat shop in Union Square and
went at it. The first customers they had
were young swells who had known them
''in society," and great was their astonish-
ment.
Miss Navy" said one Of them, ''by
Jove, what led you to this p
Papa failed you know Charles, and we
had to do this-or worse"
Worse worse Why, what could you
do that would be worse -
Marry man like you ?" replied Mary,
dabbing her shaving brush in his mouth.
1t 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 q
pretty girl on your face y man would
submit willingly to have his nose sliced of
by one of them. 1 cannot say that it is in
any way-out of the way. If men are en-
ployed 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 employ
ed as BARRIERS and to shave men ? They do
il better and more pleasantly than The men
BARRIERS, and customers would never be
afraid that drunken women barber would
cut their throats.
WHY THE BOYS DON'T GET ON.
\ great man young men who come from
the country to New FORK, 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,
a book-keeper on salary Of $4,000. He
pays II 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 why