Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-10-31
Lathered by Beauties,

'.Next. said pIquant and rather pretty
girl with towel in one dimpled hand and
! a razor In the other. She glanced down q
line of eight customers who were awaiting
their turn in the new barber shop in
Broad street, near Wall, New York. A
young man with delicate golden hair, care
fully parted In the middle, jumped up so
quickly that he let fall his eye glass. He
dropped into the empty barber's chair and
crossed his feet convulsIvely on the stool
Three barber chairs were ranged along
side this one; at two of them young ladies'
were shaving Sims and at the other a
pretty brunette was Gyeing black tie
moustache of gentleman sixty five years
old.
The young lady who had said Next"
in such a matter oi-course way, as If i;
were the twenty Ihousandth time she had
shaved some one, put one arm around the
top of the chair, at which the young man
with hair like an autumn leaf wriggled his
feet again She dipped brush into a
brand new cup and began to paint his face
as If she were working on a canvas.
Theu the fair barber took tiny Instru
ment looking like miniature curry-cOmb
with only one row of teeth left, and drew
il gently over the young mans face. de
encouraged the far barber to talk, and she
ratified away about the new style of fall
bonnets, Oscar Wilde, the latest thing IN
cloaks and the last love story When the
shaving was finished the young man ling
cred to have his hair shampooed, AMI then
to have it cut, and finally to have his
mustache waxed. When all these opera
tons were through he tore himself reluc-
family from the chair.
Bankers, spectators in stocks and FASH
ionable young men about town came liz to
get shaved or to get their hair combed.
The four young ladies were neatly
dressed, intelligent and modest. They
had formerly been dressmakers and said
they liked their new occupation very
much. OF the customers none wanted a
''qulck shave" None had to catch a
train. Every one was satisfied 10 sit
twenty minutes in his chair, and if he had
been obliged to sit there an hour he would
have been delighted. When the girls pu,
the snow white towels around the young
geDtlemen's necks, and fingered to tuck
them carefully in, when they tIckled the
young customers under the chin with their
finger tips in rubbing the lsther into the
brIstling beard; when they beat down
over the young mems faces to inspect
microscopic mole, the sg tition and delir-
ious joy of these youths may be more
easily imagined than described. With a
profound sense of the pleasure they had
taken in being shaved and shampooed,
many of the young men offered dollar
and half when they had put on their
overcoats and were ready to 90 cut Their
was great when they learned
that only the ordinary fees were charged. |
Some said 1t was equal 10 night at the
grand opera, Turkish bath and the AriOn |
ball all thrown into one. An unbroken |
stream of the fashion and france OF Wall |
street and the Produce Exchange poured !
into the shop all day. The place was
fitted up. The four feminine !
BARRIERS chstted wlttily and necessarily |
and said enough in the course OF the day |
10 fill an encyclopedias.