Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-03-14
OUR GOTHAM LETTER.
New York Universal ExhIbItiOn-Hu-
manIIy, Great and SmalI-Female
BaPbePs1The TenGEaeaS House No
IoFh.
TIE NEXT UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION.

BarbeFsJThe TensEaeaS Heuae No
IOeh.
TIE NEXT UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION.
The next great International Exposi-
tion comes here. Judge Hilton says so,
and while every body will not accept that
as conclusive prophecy, enough other citi-
zens think likewise to assure US Of the fact.
The richest and most influential men in
the metropolis are on the committee, and
have fixed the date at 1885.
no SMALL CONTRAST.
Two little midgets are exhibiting them
selves a. Masonic Hall, who are really the
tlniest people ever found by Snowman.
General Mite" is fourteen years old,
weighs nine pounds, and is truly 'a big
ger" dwarf than old Tom Thumb. His
mate is little Mexican girl of fifteen,
weighing four and three-q uarter pounds
50 they claim. Her hand is not large
erorsh to span the managers forefnger,
anu she stands in silk hat, rests her
hands on the rim, and converses pleasant
" with her admirers. While this four
FOUNDER exhibits in one section of the city,
a Bowery museum mourns the loss of its
fat girl weighing 514 pounds. The Bowery
lass would make Just 1OS girls like the
other, and have nearly pound to spare.
Filthy luere isn't the only article unequal
distributed in this little world
NEW FIELD FOR WOMEN.
Among the wholesale houses on Church
street, down in a neat little basement bar
ber-shop, two trim and tidy young women
from Boston, are shaving the faces of mas
culine New York at ten cents a head or
face. They are demure, well-bred, lady
like, neither fast nor coarse in manner,
but carry a quiet, womanly dignity and
grace about their work which disarm crit
icism, and shame frivolity into respectful
silence. One of them Ehisked of your
correspondents grizzly beard with a
Gghtness of touch most charming by con-
trast with the average masculine bipeG,
who mistakes your face for bayfield,. Her
work was done delicately and well, except
that, being q woman, she must look
around sat some gentlemen talking behind
the stove, and scratch my face with the
razor-but women can't change their ma
lures even when they become BARRIERS!
The girls draw immensely, and the pro-
prietOr has been obliged to put on several
male BARRIERS to acco nmOdate the rush.
The experiment is a grand success, and as
l looked into the brown eyes of the brave
little woman giving the finishing touches
to my grey mOustache, l wondered how
many struggling women, hungry for hon
orable employment, but drifting past the
few overlooked avenues of woman's indus
try towards shame, will yet thank these
plucky Yankee girls for pioneering anoth-
er path through the tangled wilderness
that frowns before every poor girls life.
Success to the barberessi May her name
be Legion! Send your big burly fellow out
to swing a seythe, aud let his delicate
sister WELD scissors, comb and razor. Too
long, far too long, thousand avenues Of
honorable industry have been closed
against her. Make way for women in the
Right-tO shave, and If any man attempt
to haul it down, shoot him on the spot!
THE TENEMENT HOUSE MoLoCH.
The tenement house contains forty per
cent of New York's inhabitants-and
furnishes seventy per cent. of her funerals.
Nine-tenths of all the children born in
these houses die before reaching the age Of
five years. Moloch is outdone, Herod is
out-Heroded in the richest city of the New
World. Human hiyes-in all but indus
try and weetness-covering a single city
lot 25x100 feet hold over a hundred peo-
pie; fifty to seventy children are often
found in house fifty feet front; four fam
lilies occupy single room with but chalk
mark on the bare and dirty floor to divide
their spaces; ventilation and light in the
halls and inner rooms are unknown. Six
teen men, women and children are found
cooking, eating, and sleeping in a single
room. Seclusion is impossible; virtue
fable rising dimly out of the mists Of the
past; religion and cleanliness are smother
ed in rags, and despair, and shame-and s.
population outnumbering that of Chies
lives, moves and has its p -pg. =. = s'o
full way! Do yeR wonder WITH hls go
Of police half as. aRsIs jnnior, and Frank, J
renasFS'iiie I Two families occupy plaf
tines sposils each other factor ot'hs-
~ ,,,o boi,,c, that of 49,