The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-03-11
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
New YORK March 9, 1874
FEMALE BARRIERS

EEhAlE BAiBEhS.
Two women, at least, have secuI
ed their rights, and have now all tn
privileges that men enjoy. Tw,
very pretty young girls, aged respec
tiyely Is and 20, had a papa Th,
was rich, and who lived in CRANE
stylc on Fifth auenue Papa got in
TO the bands of the Philistines las
autumn, and busted The girls were
genuine girls, Notwithstanding th'
fact that they had been tashionably
educated, and they felt their poor
fathers distress keenly The ole
gentleman's trouble so weighed upoT
his mind that he sickened and tool
to his bed, and got into a bad way
generally. The house in which ht
lived was fortunately IN his WIFE:
name, so they could not be turned
out of doors, but as the old gentle
man had sunk every dollar he had il
the world, the question of bread and
butter became an emminent one.
One morning the old gentleman.
! 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
trimed his whiskers, and propped
him up in bed as comfortably as you
please. An idea struck Mary the
younger.
ELLA if you can shave papa, you
con shave any other man."
"True," said Ella
"If YOU can shave a man | can
shave a man"
True once more. But what has
that to do with US"
ELLA, do you want to starve?"
"No my child"
"Papa can't get out, Mamma is sell
ing off the plate to get what we eat
each day. Let US stop all this by
starting barber-shopT
Ella saw the point The two girls
rugged up an extemporary chair
they took their coachman, whom they
had not vet dismissed, because be
wouldn't go, and they shaved him
for practice, and dressed his hair, and
trimmed his whiskers every day.
To accommodate them be brought
his friends in, and in a weeks time
the girls were accomplished and ex-
pert workmcn, or rather work wo-
men.
Then they sold tue horses and car
riages, and taking the proceeds fitted
up modest, but very neat shop in
Union Square ard went at it. The
first customers they had were young
swells who had known them "in So
ciety," and great was their astonish-
ment.
miss Navy" said one of them,
"by Jove, what led you to this?n
"Papa failed you know Charles,
and we had to do this-or worse"
Worse! worsel Why, what could
YOU do that would be worse?"
Marry man like ysu?" replied
Mary, dabbing her shaving brush in
his mouth.
1t is an encouraging fact that the
girls have got all they can do, at COED
prices, and are not only supporting
their parents in comfort, but are lay
ing up handsome sum besides,
Why should not women be bar
bers Imagine the delt, soft, warm
fingers of pretty girl on yonr face!
A man would submit willingly
to have his nose sliced off by one
of them. l cannot say that it is
in any way out of the way. If men
are employed in lady's shoe stores,
where they put on and take off lady's
boots, why is it not just as proper for
women to be employed as BARRIERS
and to shave men? They do it better
and more pleasantly than the men
BARRIERS, and customers would never
De AFRAID tnat drunken Woman-bar-
Der would cut their throats.
WHY THE BOYS DON'T GET on.
A great many young men who
come from the country to New Y FORK,
and get tolerable good salaries, find
themselves at the end of the year in
debt, and they wonder why it is.
The young gentlemanis, we will say,
a book-keeper ON salary of $4,000.
He pays $l2 per week board, which
leaves him about ST 400, and he cal
culates to lay by something of that.
But he don't, and this is way
Sya,a Isss.ep pT $500
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