The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-06
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THE MODERN SGAIP-TAKER.
Experience Of western Man In Eastern
TonsoriaI Establishments.
Huntington Hawkeya
| The wild, ungovernable passion barber has
! FOR trimming your harl On the fourth Of
December | WIS In Boston. thinking about .
| lecture Was expected to deliver In the even
| Ing, and 90 badly scared that couldn't re.
member the subject nor whit 1t was about.
went into fremont street Institute Of Facial
! Manipulation and Tonsorial Decoration" In
| aured for the professor who occupied tho
chair VI MEDIEVAL Shaving and Ninteenth- Cen
fury Shampoo. One Of the Junior members
ot the faculty, who was brushing an under
graduates cont, pointed me to chair, and
climbed IN When the performance was about
concluded the barber said to mo:
"Have your hair trimmed. BirY'
II believe not
Need It very badly, STR" he said: "looks
+ never argue with q, barber ! sail; "All
/ shorter"
Immediately he trimmed Gil the curl out OF
1t, and my hair naturally, you know, has q
very graceful curl to 1t. ! never discovered
! Was very much surprised. ] discovered 1t
Eby looking at my lithOgraph.
Well, anyhow, he trimmed 1t.
| On the sixth Of December ] was at Bath,
Der lmplored me to let him trim my hair.
When / answered him that 1t had been
trimmed only two days BEFORE he spitsfully
asked where 1t was done. / told him, and he
gave expression to burst Of sarcastic
well, we'll, WE'LL he said ut last, $50 You
let them trim your hair In Boston. Well, well.
| Now you look like d man who has been around
the world enough to know better than that"
/ Then he affected to examine lock or two
very particularly and sighed heavily.
Dear, DEAR" he said, u don't know really
az could Do anything with that hair or not;
| It's too bad
Well. his manner frightened me, and told
him to so ahead and trim It, but please not
! make 1t any shorter.
mo" he said, .oh no; 1t wasn't necessary
to cut 1t any. shorter; It was really too short
now, but 1t did need trimming"
So he trimmed" It, and when faced the
Rock land audience that night looked like q
prize-fghter.
In four days from that time ] was sitting
in the chair OF o barber down in New York
State. He shaved me In grateful silence, and
then thoughtfully ran his fingers over my
Trim this hair little, sir ?" he said.
"Straighfen 1t up about the edges r
/ / meekly told him | had 1t trimmed twice
during the preceding week, and | was afraid
YES" he said, "he didn't know but what
/ 1t was pretty short, but you didn't need to
cut ltany shorter TO trim II. 1t was In q very
bad, ragged shape MT the ends"
asked me where had It trimmed last. told
him, and he burst into shout of laughter
| that made the Windows rattle.
whats the matter, JIM" inquired mn as
sistant partner down the room, holding his
patient In the chair by the nose.
Jim stified his laughter and replied:
This gentleman had his hair trimmed
down III Maine"
There was general burst Of merrlment nll
| over the shop and the apprentice laid down
| his. brush he was washing and came over to
look MT the Maine cut that he might never
| forget it. / surrendered. rTrim it little,
then,a gro , but u The name Of human
NO the barber said, che wouldn't make 1t
a hairs breadth shorter"
When ] lift that shop If 1t hadn't been for
my ears my hat would have fallen down clear
on my shoulders. When reached the hotel
everybody stared, and D couple Of men got up
and read handful on the wall descriptive OF
q convict who had recently escaped from Sing
Sing and looked from the bill to myself very
intantly. That night several Of the audience
drew reviewers as | came out on the platform.
| Then | went to Amsterdam. N. Y. The
barber Of that sleepy village who In the In
terval Of his other duties acts as mayor Of the
town and edits the local papers, undertook to
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out Of his bootleg When / resisted he went
out into the kitchen and came back with o
kttchen-knife and can-opener, and offered
me my choice. / selected the can-opener,
and he began the massacre, remarking Incl
dentally that he used to heepa good, sharp
spoke-shave for his particular cuetome rs,
but he had lost it. Then he said my hair
needed trimming very badly. | protested
that 1t was impossible-it had been trimmed
three times within ten days, and was as
| short
4 January.
OH he said. lit wasn't too short, and,
beside, there wasn't no style about 1T at all. !"
He could give it some shape, however, he
said, without making It any shorter.
| So surrendered, and told him to shape 1t
up. And Ii that foredoomed abandoned,
Amsterdam son OF an oakum-picker didn't
go out into the woodshed and come back with
a rusty old hOrserasp and began to file away
what little hair had left He allowed q few
shreds and patches to remain, however, cling
| ing here and there to my scalp In ghostly
loneliness. | rather feared that my appear
ance that evening would create panic, but
1t did not. observed that the majority OF
the audience had their heads shaped up"
after the same manner and were rarely
pleased with my conformity to the local GUS
tom and style.
Well, got along to Cory, Pa, and rushed
motions.
"Hair trimmed, sir2" the barber said.
supposed he was speaking sarcastically,
and SO laughed, but very feebly, for I was
getting to be a little sensitive on the subject
Of my hair. OF rather my late hair. But he
repeated his questiog, and said that it needed
trimming. very badly: | told him that was
what allied 1t; it had been trimmed to death.
Why, said, my hair had been trimmed five
times during the last thirteen days, and |
was afraid it wouldn't last much longer.
well" he said, 1T was hardly the thing
for q man OF my impressive appearance, who
would naturally attract attention the mo-
ment entered room q had to stand on tip
toe and hold on with both hands to look over
the back OF car seat. to 60 around with
such a head OF hair, when he could straighten
1t out for me in a minnte.'
/ told him to go ahead, and closed my
eyes, and wondered what would come next
That fellow took pair OF dentists forceps
and pulled every lock of hair had left.
There he said, proudly; "now when your
hair grows out it will grow out even.'
was q little dismayed at first when |
looked at my glistening poll, but after all il
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