Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-03-27
The Hawkeye Mans BARRIERS.


the evening, and so badly scared that I
couldn't remember the subject nor what
it was about. I went into a fremont
street Institute of Facial Manipulation
and TOnsorial Decoration and inquired
for the professor who occupied the chair
of Mediaeval Shaving and Nineteenth
Century Shampoo. One of the junior
members of the faculty, who was brush
ing an undergraduates coat, pointed me
to a chair, and climbed in. When the
performance was about concluded, the
barber said to me:
Have your hair trimmed, STRIP
I believe not.
Needs it very badly, SIR he said
looks very ragged
never argue with barber, said, sall
right, trim it little, but don't make it
any shorter
He Immediately trimmed all the curl
out of it, and my hair naturally. you
know, has a very graceful curl to it. I
never discovered this myself until few
months ago, and then was very much
surprised. 1 discovered it by looking at
my lithograph.
Well, anyhow, he trimmed it.
On the 9Th of December 1 was at Bath,
Maine. Again L was shaved, and again
the barber implored me to let him trim
my hair. When answered him that it
had been trimmed only two days before,
he spitefully asked where it was done. 1
told him and he gave expression to a
burst of sarcastic laughter.
''Well, well, well,' he said at last; $50
you let them trim your hair in Boston I?
Well, well. Now you look like man
who has been around the world enough
to know better than that.''
Then he affected to examine a lock or
two very carefully, and sighed heavily.
''Dear, DEAR" he said, ''I don't know,
really, as could do anything with that
hair or motifs too bad.''
Well, his manner frightened me, and
I told him to go ahead and trim it, but
please not make it any shorter.
FsNO,'' he said, F'oh, no, it wasn't nee
essary to cut it any shorter, it was really
too short now, but it did need trimming -
So he "trimmed it,'' and when [ faced
the Rockland audience that night looked
like prize fighter.
In four days from that time was sit
ting in the chair of a barber down in New
York State. He shaved me in grateful
silence, and then thoughtfully run his
fingers through my lonely hair.
'sTrim this hair a little sir?' he said :;
'sstraighten it up about the edges ?''
| fold him r.
twice during the preceding week, and I
was afraid it was getting too short for
winter wear.
"Yes,'' he said, che didn't know but
what it was pretty short, but you didn't
need to cut it any shorter to trim it. It
was in very bad, ragged shape at the
ends,''
remained silent and obstinate, and he
asked me where had it trimmed last.
told him, and he burst into a fit of
laughter that made the windows rattle.
"What's the matter, Jim!'' inquired
an assistant partner down the room,
holding his patient in the chair by the
nose.
Jim stified his laughter and replied:
E'This gentleman had his hair trimmed
down in Maine.''
There was a 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. sur
rendered. <tTrim it little then,'' said
FFhut in the name of humanity, don't cut
it any shorter
"No," said the barber, che wouldn'
make it hairs breadth shorter.''
When 1 left that shop, if it hadn't beer
for my ears my hat would have fallel
down clear on my shoulders. When
reached the hotel everybody started, AM
couple of men got up and read hand
bill on the wall, descriptive of a convic
? who had recently escaped from Sing
: Sing, and looked from the bill to mysel
: very intently. That night several of tn
: audience drew revolvers as 1 came out OF
the platform.
Then went to Amsterdam, New York
The barber of that sleedy village, who
in the interval of his other duties, acts a
mayor of the town and edits the local ps
: pers, undertook to shave me with piec
of hoop iron he pulled out of his boo
S leg. When I resisted he went out int
5 the kithen and came back with a kitche
knife and can opener and he began tt
J, massacre, remarking incidentally that
i used to keep a good sharp SPOKESMAN
e for his particular customers, but he ha
y lost it. Then he said my hair needt
l' trimming, very badly. 1 protested tn
Il it was impossible, it had been trimmt
u three times within ten days, and was
IS short now as business man on the fir
Sc of January.
k "Oh," he said, cit wasn't too shol
r and besides, there was no style about
e. at all. He could give it some shape, ho7
le over, he said, without making it al
Us shorter.
y So 1 surrendered and told him
IL shape it up. And if that fore-doome
ne abandoned, Amsterdam son of an oaku
Id picker didn't go out into the woodsh
ne and come back with rusty old hor
r rasp, and begin to file away that lit
hair had left. He. allowed few shr,
Nv and patches to remain, however, clingi
here and there to my scalp in ghos
ey loneliness. I rather feared that my
ice pearance that evening would Great,
We panic, but it did not. observed tina
VI majority of the audience had their he
ch ''shaped up' after the same manner, ;
lite were rather pleased with my conform
er- to the local custom and style.
'oy Well, got along to Cory, Penn'
ca vania, and rushed in for shave and
on- it, in one time and two motions.
of "Hair trimmed, sir ?'' the barber salt
use supposed he was speaking sarcs
to cally, and so laughed, but very feel
ON for 1 was getting to be little sensitive
ops the subject of my hair, or rather, my