The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-03-14
Saxon Barber.Shops.

Let me tell you in sober earnestness
how am shaved in a German barber
shop. MY barber is a good one, and he
is somewhat in advance of his br thren
in many respects. g has introduced
many reforms and innovations, and has
sec red tn reby very large and re-
spectacle patronage. His chairs are a
trifie easier than any / have yet seen in
Chemnitz, and he has a rather primi-
tive attachment fas; ened to their backs,
against which you can rest your head
In one of thes. chairs sit me down,
resting my feet upon little wooden
stool-one o his most recent and mo t
alarming innovations. He takes a VIII te
towel and astens it between my neck
and NV sh rt-collar in front, and anoth-
er white towel which he lastens between
my neck and my sh rt-collar behind.
He is then approaehe by little ooy'
his son. who hands him a shallow bowl.
filed with thin lather. The arber dips
his finge nto the lather and smears
my O withit. Cups and brushes are
unknown here. but the lather is made
fresh for every customer, and this is a
step in advance of the American c s.
tom. After rubbing the lather in thor
oughly he hands the bowl back to the
boy, who bows and ret.res. Then he
shaves me- / have cen edu, a ing him
mp to what believe to be t. e proper
standard, and think he w II shortly be
able to un erstand that / haven't got
the yuticle of a cowboy IT the cheek
OF a canal horse. He does prstty well
now. At first he only went over my
face onre. Once was all that was rec-
essary, for he arried everything away,
and gave me such a clean shave that l
II L Coz
month. commnnica ed to him as st
CO Id. an as de icately as 1 could,
the fact that / was seldom in very
great hurry. and that if he would be
kind enough to go over my face twi g.
the first time very 81, wly and the Sec
end tine very gentl SO that the ra or
would have soothing effe upon me.
he would be conferrIng an OBJ igat on
or which / could ,never sufficiently
thank him. His method of shaving
even now, | regret to say, is not of a
caressng nature. and l find that l am
'requentlv Ii ted out of the char. But
this due to forgetfuiness on his part
and he ALWAYS makes amends for ch
Little unpleasant ses fte ward by rub
bing his Ioat-s eeve into nv eve, or by
breathing hard into m ear and making
me nervous
When he las shaved me the tie boy
| approaches again with another shallow
bowl fiji ed with cold water, and the
barber applies that to my burning face
with his fingers. also Then he applies
towel. and he is DONE If l would
like to have my hair combed must tell
| HIM so. He will not comb it un ess
do. Shawn g is one thing in GERMANY.
| and having your hair combed is anoth-
er. Nine-tenths those who visit the
barber, or who are Wis led by him. dc
| not have their hair dressed. It is nc
| part of the oh, and is not incl ded in
the regular fee. Mo of em come to
him with their hair already dressed.
and others go to their homes aftel
shaving and dress it themsei es. tn.
ers, again, use a pocket-comb in the
barbeF shop, to straighten out any little
irregularities VIII ch ma have beer
caused by the barber during the pro es:
of shaving. he Germans. loor as vel
as rich. are very parti ular about thei
hair. and it is not allowed to suffer the
slightest neglect. " hatever the bar
ber's all ngs may be as a shaver he il
a great success as a hair-dresser. 1o
|. cannot leave his chair until each par
ticular hair is made 10 lie in its owr
particular place. and he can put more
kin into your golden or raven or au
burn or cardinal locks than ere evel
DIRE mt in your philosophy. Horat;o
1t IS not the Gust m here. g ther. for &
barber TO go er your face more har
once. nor do mo of them bathe oul
face afterward. As soon as you are
shaved they thank YOU. and you are ex
pee ed 10 step to the wa b bowl, hard
b., and douse YOUR own ace
1 think that one of the principa
reasons for the backwardness OF the
tarber-shops in ermany is that they
are seldom patroni e y the bettel
class. The fashionable and popular
I'll n here is to have the harber come
to your room or your residence. Two
thirds or all the work done b the bar
bers Is done IN this wav. You MAJ
leave an der with them to call tn e'
or four time, a week, say on Tuesdays
Thursda, S, Saturdays and S ndays, a
six. seve'. e ght or nine o clock in th'
morning, and as sure as the hour come
your barber is at hand. l go TO tn,
shop, like others, only when wish 70
some reason to break the usual appoint
ment. or when am in too great a hurry
to wait for the barber to call. i don
like the svs EN-, but it is the fashion
and this would be mournful world
one did or would not or could no
keen up with he fash ON. When yol
are n Chemnitz you must get shavet
like the Chemn tzerc.
o course shaving at home is uncom
Portable and unsatis actory. The XII
which the barber carries with him con
sists merely of a razor, some la her and ;
towel. There are no conven ences a
hand and the chairs can not in the yer,
nature of things be suita e for such ;
purpose. The only tn ng n the wa,
of chair that l have been able to hnt
which does not CT ok nv neck until
am ent rely disabled for business, is on,
of the species ailed easy" but / m S
say that lather 81 OTIS here an Their
have not inn owed the APP earance o
the NJ holstery in the lie st. If a littl
domestic ntroversy which is now GO
ing on should ecome too warm or me
why will get shave in ed, lor I'll b
hanged If I'll go through life with
neck SO stiff that Can not turn nv hea,
without turning my whole body ike al
tomaton Besides this shaving a
home arrangement sets bad exampl
for the chi dren. The coming III
barber is an ent in their heathenisl
young lives. While he is sha ing m
they stand at a distance in front, witt
their eyes and mouths open, making al
sorts OF gr maces and placing my Ii
constantly in danger. Th is not al
1t was only esterdav that we caugh
our tour year-old hold ng the head o
our two-year-old over the back of
chair by the hair. and avine him witt
the butter-knife. OF course this is aw
, tul, and cannot be tolerate |.
Twas astonished the other d y in m
} barber's shop. l was Just out Il
leave when a woman entered whose lef
J jaw seemed to be indisp sed. 1t wa
considerably lare eer than her right jaw
and emed to be in amed There wer
tears standing in the woman's ewes
My sympathetic heart was touc ed. ant
put on my o ercoat and my glove