Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-06-13
BARBERS-ANCIENT AND MODERN.

It's VI DdlDcI IL oIlly
known among those nations that have
made a certain progress in clviliza-
ton. 1t is referred to in the Bible by
Ezekiel, v, 1: "And thou, son of mar,
take thee Il BARRIERS razor, and cause it
to pass upon thine head and upon thy
beard"
The Romans wore the beard until
the fifth century, A. [. c., when Pub
Illus Ticnus brought over a colony OF
BARRIERS from Sicily TO exercise their
professions on the Roman chins.
Their shops soon became the common
resort Of lOungers and idlers of every
description, until at length they served
To furnish proverbs expressive of no
toriety. There the gossiping and in
quisitive portion Of the community
sought for fashionable news and in
formation respecting affairs Of State;
there the reports Of the nights broil
and the last intrigue found tongues to
disseminate them, with all their at
tendant ISLANDERS, to the remOtest cor
nep OF the city; there the ailluent and
the indolent consumed their time III
''hi u '.iilb'i 'til'l tilNi', wv, liIt
industrial classes met for recreation,
and discussed current politics when
the hours Of toll were over. Even the
poorer citizens, according TO Horace,
sought refuge from their ennui by
making round of the barber-shops.
The barber himself furnished IN excel
lent Substitute for the modern news
paper, lie was indeed, a walking ga
2ette. The shop Of the higher class of
BARRIERS formed good apology for the
modern ciub-room; that of the hum
bier professor for the tavern or lager
beer saloon. Hence the barber shops
constituted IN important element in
the social condition and progress of the
Roman people.
Augustus and the Roman Emperors
TIL llddrian shaved their boards and
Plutarcn says that Hadran allowed
his to grow 70 hide the scars on his
face. All the imperial perSonages
after iIadran grew their boards. 1t
was customary on the assumption Of
the to9a citiiS among the Roman
youth 10 couSecrate the first fruits of
their boards TO some deity. Homer
and Virgil, CITyssippus and Pliny the
Younger, Plutarch and Strabo, Dio-
dorus and Juvenal, PerSeus and Pru-
dentluS, al celebrate this ornament on
the faces of persons distinguished for
the length or the Wilderness Of their
boards. The most curious story of
long hedrds is that Of a middle person.
age, John Mayo-the bearded by pre-
emlnence was an exceedingly
tall man, and when he united his
beard 1t flowed down upon the ground;
aud the Emperor Charles V. is said to
have been greatly amused by the wind
it fly in the faces OF the Lords
of his Court. The Egyptians shaved
their boards, except in time of mourn
ing when they let them grow; yet some
of the Egyptian statues exhibit boards
on the male faces. The beard was
universally worn in Greece until the
time of Alexander the Great (who
died B. G. 223l He ordered shaving,
that the boards of his soldiers might
not be laid hold of by their enemies in
battle.
In early times the operations of the
barber We're not confined, as now, to
shaving, hair-dressing and making
wigs, but included the dressing of
hlood-Ietting and other surgi-
cal operations. 1t seems that in all
countries the art of surgery and the
art OF shaving went hand in hand.
lllppocrateS, who died $50 3. c.. has
recorded that in his time, IN Greece,
several surgical operations, which
were considered beneath the attention
If physicians, were performed by the
BARRIERS. In 1913, the Council of Tours
forbade the clergy from performing
operations attended with the etfusion
ot blood and this greatly increased
The practice and profit OF BARRIERS. The
title OF harber-chU7ugeoH, or barber
was generally applied to bar
hers. The BARRIERS of London were
.lrSt Incorporated by Edward ", in
l46l, and at that time were the
only persons who practlCed surgery.
The BARRIERS and surgeons We're
and made two distinct
in France in the time
Of Louis XIV, and in England
this copartncrship ceased to exist
about one hundred and fifty years ago.
The BARRIERS Company have a hall of
their own in Monkwell Street, Lon
don. 1t was built 10y lingo Jones, and
contains aine portrait of Henry VIII,
painted by Hans IIolbein.
The sign of the barber-surgeon CON
sisted q Il striped pole, from which
WAS suspended a basin, the illet around
the pole indicating the rj1and or band
age twisted around the arm previous
to hlood-iettlng, the pole for the pa
teut To GASP, and the basin the vessel
for receiving the blood. The SIGN has