Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-12-23
FUN FOR EVERYBODY.
Shaving by Machines Ia New York
City.
An EminentIy Silent Process Conducted by a
Yousg Lady 0petator-Uncle JeHs
Story ofthe 0lden Tims-An
Obstinate Detroit Wife.
Nos York Sun =.

There is a quiet little shop in side
street down town. which displays a
modest sign bearing the words:
Machine shaving done by lady operate rs"
Lace curtains veil the interior from
prying eyes. A reporter opened the
door yesterday and walked in with
look of confidence and three-dayS'
heard on his face. As he entered two
Young women and a patient looking
man rose from a settee and stood by
three BARRIERS chairs. The patient man
looked at the reporter with passing in.
terest. The young women looked into
the mirrors in front of the chairs.
While the reporter was hanging up his
hat and coat he chose the smaller OF
the two women because she had ceased
TO stare at herself in the glass, and was
much palmer than the other. There
was chance that she would pay more
attention to the victim than her pref
tier companion. The reporter sank into
her chair, leaned his head back and
elevated his chin. The operator passed
a small and smooth hand over his chin,
and asked, with liberal smile, rs she
tucked a towel into his neck:
"Did you want n shave, sir"
"Yes-very light, please; go over it
once"
She passed her hand over the re.
porter's face again. She got the later
cup and gently smcared him while she
looked into the glass. When her at
tention was called to the mat ter she
smiled TRANQUILITY and removed the
lalber from his mouth, nose and ears.
1--WE make it point, sir, never to
| talk to our customers she said, as she
brushed stray lock back from the re-
porter's forehead with one hand and
began to rub the lather into his chin
with the other. at not only inter-
Iupts us while working, but also, as I'm
sure you've had experience enough to
know, becomes at times somewhat tire
| some. ] mean to the customer, be.
cause there are always times when one
enjoys little repOSe, don't you know,
and many gents seek barber on that
account, which was what made me re-
| solve To remain perfectly silent at all
times, for, says to myself, if a gent"
Pardon my inlerrupting you, but
there is no hair under my ears, where
YOU ere now rubbing me-
"No, l know K. | just do that from
fGlcc of h&b.t, let-me- see. Wha'
WAS saying? Oh, yes; says to my
,tlf, ANY gent ear br talked to until h
IS that put about that he feels as il
| he-'u
What sort o. q machine do you use
when you shave II man."
las if he admit want to come any
more,' and 80 1t is"
"noes it run by steam"'
"lrs best, according to my mind, to
Preserve strict silence. Besdes-what
I'D you say about the machine? Ga,
! fere it is-'tisnt very new, because er
| because it's kind of Old. It's simply
! a razor with q steel comb screwed on.
! Ii is impossible to cut anyone with it.
You lay it on the face, you know, ani
,ien iu,t pull it along the cheek like
Il is"
"Yerp! Let 90! It's against the
grain"
"Oh, is 1t? Why, you don't say. /
thought ii WAS with the grain, but that's
iGst like me. Pm always making mis-.
,akrs. Last Chewsday-"
Ten minutes later paid man emery
cd from The quiet shop and hurried to
Nard the corner. The patient man
!Crlod after him with an expression OF