The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-08-26
A WOMAN BARRIER.
How Johnny BOnaaet was Shaved nj
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Geo, All Townsend In Sunday Tribune,
AT BinghamtOn Il young woman shaved
mo in the BARRIERS shop Of y hotel not far
from the depot, Stepping into the room,
allured thereto by the striped pole protrud-
ing from the doorway, | saw q black.eyed
damscl, as she seemed, OF d dark skin,
either a well-tanncd white woman or an
Indian girl, or possibly IN all white quad
room. She was applying the lathcring
brush to n ragged-bcarded son Of SusQuc-
hanna for the Inst time, and ! heard his
bristles nttlc undGrthe scrapo Of the steel.
The effect Of his matted head resting there
with her arm around it and her long sen
tent fingers plying the knife, was that Of
some woodland nymph pruning down II
brush heap in which lay n wolf.
Tho barber hardly turned her eyes to me,
without any complaint or courtesy, M II
she still appreciated the novelty Of her vO.
cation and the surprise OF n young man
never before, since lIcrodiNs daughter
shaved John tho Baptist close, encountered
by u female hair-tutter. Yet we must ex-
cept Delllah, who SHARED Samson well,
and WINS not greatly more to blame therefor
than Judith, who drove u clOthes-peg into
llOlOferncs Samson could not lie per-
suaded TO let the Philistines alone, and wls
an ihcendlary, and what was worse, put
forth very stupid riddles and conundrIms
to his best friends The female bar
Der Of Blnghanlton, in u sort Of bashfll
why, glanced toward n chair, which |
took while watching her make that pleas.
ing Music OF the sCytle In tho dry timO-
thy Dis she shayed expertly US old Time
himself. Perhaps II IL Death who carries
the scythe, In which case the figure docs
not hold good When my turn came she
gave half glance out Of those smouldering
orbs saying nothing | climbed into the
chair, and the huttered flattered covered
me with soft soap and drew her blade
most nantully across o strip fastened to
the wall. ] could now understand the sig
niflCancc OF the song 10 hone, widow
Macllrce!" SiCh nerve have never seen
since in my country digs our kitchen girl
zor to and fro with the skill OF III cxecli-
tloneer's wife. She wasapparcntly twenty
five years old, lear yet willowy, and US |
saw now, was q frcc-born quadroQn, per.
hhps wlilter. ' o.. II. n .'-...
"This Is the first time I was ever shaved
by a lady," said /. Xiii ..i.
1t seemed to me that hardly audible
laugh was ovGrhanging me, and instead Of
answering she took inc By the tip Of the
nose very gently, aud with skilled, steely
fingers she drew, the rllzor down my jnwa
The contact made INC Immediately resolve
To be shdven no more by tnan II there WIS
woman III the adjoining State. Like II
miniature reaping machine driven through
the buckwheGt BY n gypsy furry, the rtlzor
came onward toward th6 corners Of my
mouth, circunnaylgnted the chin,
descended into the. quicker there
Of and went up The other side
Of the face with the confidence and clcanli-
ness Of machinery. Then my chin was
elevated, 50 | could not sec the charming
motive power in the elass, ind she stuck Il
milk white napkin III my throat and put
her thumb and finger around my Adam's
apple. Immediately II become apparent
how Eve robbed tllit celebrated tree A
slight stain OF nearly disappeared walnut
bulls, was on the tapcring fingers Of the
barber; her nails have been described by
MI IputiCauli lin tllp i'OCtoropnpt irsteRd
OF thetmuddy and fneftenaty hhnh OF the
matlsbafber u was etlClaspGdih wifes With
velvet insulators, and the picture Of priur's
Abra arose!
Another ny1nph btibfg thhithanyihr
That inade my softer hOnE their solemn care,