Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-02-26
afraid it was getting too short for win

afraid it was getting too short for win
ter wear.
YES" he said, he didn't know but
what it was pretty short, but you didn't
need to cut it any shorter to trim it.
1t was in very bad, ragged shape at the
ends"
L remained silent and obstinate, and
he asked me where l had it trimmed
last. l told him, and he burst into a
shout of laughter that made the win
dows rattle.
whats the matter Jim ?' inquired
an assistant partner down the room,
holding his patient in the chair by the
nose.
Jim stifed his laughter and replied ::
"This gentleman had his hair TRIM
med down in Maine."
There was general burst of merri-
ment all over the shop, and the appren-
tice laid down the brush he was wash
ing and came over to look at the Maine
cut, that he might never forget it. /
surrendered. Trim it little then" :"
| groaned, "but in the name of human
ity, don's cut it any shorter"
No." the barber said, she wouldn't
make it a hairs breadth shorter"
When l left that shop, if it hadn't
been for my ears, my hat would have
fallen clear down to my shoulders.
When 1 reached the hotel, everybody
started, and couple of men got up and
read hand bill on the wall descriptive
of a convict who had recently ESCAPED
from Sing Sing, and looked from the
bill to myself very intently. That
night several of the audience drew re-
volvers as came out on the platform.
Then 1 went TO Amsterdam, New
York. The barber of that sleepy viii
lage, who, in the interval of his other
duties acts as Mayor of the town and
edits the local papers, undertook to
shave me with piece of hoop iron he
pulled out OF his boot leg. When / re-
sisted, he went out into the kitchen and
came back with kitchen knife and can
opener, and offered me my choice. |
selected the can opener, and he began
the massacre, remarking incidentally,
that he used TO keep good sharp spoke
shave for his particular customers, but
he had lost it. Then he said my hair
needed trimming, very badly. L pro-
tested that it was impossible, it had
been trimmed three times within ten
days and was as short now as business
man on the first of January.
"Oh," he said, ''it wasn't too short,
and besides, there was no style about it
at ALL" He could give it some shape,
however, he said, without making 1t
any shorter.
80 l surrendered and told him 10
shape it up. And If that fore-doomed
abandoned, Amsterdam son of an oak
umpicker, didn't go out in the wood
shed and come back with rusty old
hcrse-rasp and begin to file away what
little hair / had left. He allowed a few
threds and patches to remain however,
elinging here and there to my scalp in
ghOstly holiness. | rather feared that
my appearance that evening would Gre
ate panic, but it did not. | observed
that the majority of the audience had
their heads 'shaped up" after the same
manner, and were rather pleased with
my conformity to the local custom and
style.
Well, got along to Cory, Pennsyl-
vania, rushed in for a shave and got it
in one time and two motions.
"Hair trimmed sir ?" the barber said.
1 supposed he was speaking sarcas-
tically, and so / laughed, but very fee
bly,, for l was getting to be little sem
sitive on the subject of my hair, or
rather my late hair. But he repeated
his question and said that it needed
trimming very badly. l told him that
was what allied it, it had been trimmed
to death; why said my hair had been
trimmed five times during the past thir-
teen days. And l was afraid it
wouldn't last much longer.
"Well," he said, SIT was hardly the
thing for man of my impressive ap-
pearance, who would naturally attract
attention the moment entered a room,
q have to stand on my tip toes and hold
or with both hands to look over the
back of car seat) TO go around with
such a head of hair, when he could
straighten it out for me in a minute"
1 told him to go ahead, and closed my
eyes and wondered what would come
next.
That fellow took a pair of dentists
forceps, and "pulled" every lock of hair
/ had left.
"There," he said proudly, "now
when your hair grows it will grow out
even."
Twas little dismayed at first when
l looked at my gllstening poll, but af-
ter all 1t was a relief to know the end
was reached, and nobody could torment
me again to have my hair trimmei for
several weeks. But when got shaved
at Ashtabula, the barber insisted on
puttying up the holes and giving my
head coat of shellac. L yielded and
nv head looked liAe a vanished
globe with the maps left off. Two days
1 sat in a BARRIERS chair at
Mansfield. The barber shaved me ST.
lently. Then ne paused with a bottle
poised in his hand and said:
"Shampoo?"
answered with look. Then he
oiled my hairless globe and bent over
it for a moment with hair brush, then
he said:
s'On which side do you part your
hair?"
Manufacture of Hair Cloth.
Hair cloth is made from the hair of
horses tails which is brought. some o