The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1883-11-21
IATHERED BY BEAUTIES.
pTNrLED YOUNG a1RLs EsThBLIsH
A BARRIER SHOP.

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Have Their Chins SC aped.
"Nextw said a piquant and rather
pretty girl with towel in one dimpled
hand and razor in the other. she
glanced down a line of eight customers
who were awaiting their turn in the new
barber shop in Broad street, near Wall.
A young man with delicate golden hair,
carefully parted in the middle, jumped
up so quickly that he let fall his eye
glass. He dropped into the empty bar
ber's chair and crossed his feet convul
sively on the stool. Three barber chairs
were ranged alongside this one; at two
of them young ladies were shaving Sims
and at the other a pretty brunette was
dyeing black the mustache of gentle
man sixty-fve years old.
The young lady who had said "NextW
IN such matter-of-coUrse way, as If it
were the twenty thousandth 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
n brand-new cup and began to paint his
face as if she was working on a canvas.
Then the fair barber took a tiny instru-
ment looking like a miniature currycomb
! with only one row of teeth left, and drew
fit gently over the young mans face. He
encouraged the fair 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
fingered to have his hair shampooed, and
then to have it cut and finally to have
his mustache waxed. When all these OPP
erations were through he tore himself re-
mctantly from the chair.
Bankers, spectators in stocks and
fashiopable young men about town come
in toAget 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
"quick shave" None had to catch a
train. Every one was satisfied to 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 put the snow-white towels around
the young gentlemen's necks, and fingered
to tuck them carefully in; when they
tickled the young customers under the
chin with their tinger-tips in rubbing the
lather into the bristling beard when they
bent down over the young mems faces to
inspect a microscopic mole, the agitation
and delirious JOY of these youths
may be more easily imagined than
described. With 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
60 out. Their astonishment was great
when they learned that the ordinary fees
were charged. Some said it was equal to
night at the grand opera, Turkish
bath and the Arion ball all thrown into
one. An unbroken stream of the fashion
and finance of Wall street and the Prod
nee Exchange poured into the shop all
day. The place was handsomely fitted
up. The four feminine BARRIERS chatted
wittily and necessarily and said enough
in the course of the day to fill an ency-
clopedia -NeaO York Journal