The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-02-25
suaish,iYn the Barber shop.ssuto,

/ ga woman, being only q DearqlesS
woman, A'the sad passenger said, t"will
always. even though she succeed ihaob-
tanning the ballot, miss the manly eX-
perience of waiting sixty7seve4 minutes
in a barber shop for q shave, She will
never know what it is to study character
from the chair. She win iinever' see the
row of patient looking men sittingd IN
solemn rows around the rooms reading
yesterdays papers, and, Police GaSetteS,
and looking upon each other with dark
suspicion, each mani Believing all the
Others capable Of s1eakihg into the chair
before hefis next. n9iuui bus ,b9isiV
! ntiSbel will never see the nervous mar"
said the fat passenger, ''Yho springs hal half
way to his feet every time next IS
called, and Sinks Back Overwhelmed With
9basl1fulness,and silently accused of check
with an intent to commit fraud by all the
-otherrsuferers,',,s ,piu,.err ,s ~ ~ts,
i ,"And she will miss the, spectacle of the
anxious man,' said the fat passenger,
'swho is supremacy fearful of finishing his
turn, and keeps tally on his fingers Of the
elect who are in ahead of him, and gets
excited and loses his count every time al
new, man comes in, or an old delegate
changes his seat. 81 'i'l ~ a''1f = 1871"
5n"And the impatient man, SAID the tall
thin passenger, tfwho fidgets along until
he is last and next, and, then runs across
the street to find twenty men in the
other shop, and then returns to discover
that seven men have come in since he
went out and tries to look as though
he didn't know how badly he was
left.1'i y1;fi.gta s35f.,f. aoa yst,nu
''And the distracted, man." said the
cross passenger, '''who looks at the
chrome Of a round-faced woman with
scoal-black hair, and Turkey dlcheeks,
grapevine curls and circular eyes, en-
titled "The Southern Beauty, and drums
on the floor with his feet until he misses
his turn, and gets so bewildered by the
catastrophe that he can t imagine how to
work himself into the chair until the last
man is shaved.
.ct g Apd the foolish man. said the pas
senger with the sandy goatee, 81 who
waits an hour and ten minutes, and Just
discovers when he is ON his way to the
chair, that he is in a strange shop and
hasn' cent in his pockets. o. Then. be,
looks quietly at his watch, murmurS an
awful lie about an impossible train Or an
unheard of engagement, and wanders
out into the night to smite himself with
reproaches that sting like serpent and
bite like a horse fly .....
:" And the man who takes off his coat,
vest, cuffs, neclytie and collar when he
gets into the chair, and looks as though
he wanted to take off his boots, trousers
and shirt, =" said the sad passenger. M
"She will never comprehend, said
the cross passenger, ''the Mortified feel
| ings of the man with black beard three
weeks old and thick as hedge. who sees
"a boy with round, fat face, smooth as an
April watermelon, take the chair of his
fayorite barber on the call of next"
t' Nor the feelings of the crowd" said
the man with the sandy goatee, /" on
Saturday night, when some soulless
seoundrel, who needs hanging, gets into
the chair at half-past nine O'clock and
orders shave, shampoo, hair cut and
whiskers dyed, and then wants his NOUS
tache waxed.' uH'i
And the fresh man," said the fat
passenger, ''who rushes into shop
with ten men waiting for chair, and
says he has to take train in fifteen min
utes and would the gentleman who is
next object to giving way to him as
great accommodation? .....a
! "And nobody says anything said the
tall thin passenger, "but every body looks
steadfastly at him, and the gentleman
who is next calmly but firmly gets into
the chair when his turn is caHed." d.
''And the man who goes around from
one shop to another, asking: How many
are there ahead of me?' until the last shop
is closed"
"She will never Know" said the sad
passenger, ''what it is to be shaved by
man with a touch like a shadow and
razor that putsiYou to. sleep in a minute,
and who fuses over you with towels
and water and perfumes so deity and
lightlyithat you want to be shaved over
again.''l So Mi hgi'H.f a9 rgX4
~ 'And she will never puzzle herself six
times week. y said the Jester, ...trying to
understand whya barber will spend three
minutes carefully brushing and waxing
| your mustaehe, and then, Just before he
lets you out of the chair, take a towel and
rub it up and down your face and back
and'forth across your upper lip, until he
makes that mustache look like a fright
wig on aminstrel end man" 4l ~
21''And she willnever know,'' said the
woman who talks bass, ''what it is to be
shavedby asbarber whoeats garlic to cure
his catarrh, and who ought to change his
trade or learn to breathe through his
ears. Y-Burdette, IN Burlingtoni HapOk-
E3te