The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-01-06
SHAVED BY MACHINE,
An EminentlJ Silent Process Gen.
Quoted by the Young Lady
Operators.

There is quiet little shop IN a
side street down town which dis
plays modest sign bearing the
words:
Machine shaving done by lady
operators"
Lace curtains veil the interior
from prying eyes. A reporter
opened the door yesterday aud
walked in with look of confidence
and three days beard 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 re-
porter with passing interest. The
young women looked into the mir
rors in front of the clairs. While
the reporter was hanging up his bat
and coat he chose the smaller of the
two won en- because she has ceased
to stare at herself in the glass, and
was much palmer than the other
There was chance that she would
pay more atJenti7n 10 the victim
than ner prettier companion. The
reporter sank into chair, leaned
his cad back and elevated his chin.
The operator passed small and
smooth hand over his chin aud
asked, with q liberal smile, as she
tucked towel into his neck:
Did you want a shave, sir ?"
"Yes-Very light, please; go over
it once"
She passed her hand over the re-
porter's face again. She got the
lather cup aud gently smear ed him
while she looked into the glass
When her attention was called to
the matter she smiled tranquil
and removed the lather from his
mouth and nose and ears.
1--WE make it a point, sir, never to
talk 60 our customers" she said as
she brushed stray lock back from
the reporters forehead with one
hand and rubbing the lather Into his
chin with the other. 1T not only
interrupts while working, but also
as I'm sure. you've had experience
enough to know, becomes at times
somewhat tiresome. / mean to the
customers, because there are always
times when one enjoys little re-
pose, don't yOd know, and many
gents seek barber on that account,
which was what made me resolve
to remain perfectly silent at all
times, for, says l to myself, If a
gent"
pardon my interruptipg you,
but there is no hair upon my ears,
where you are now rubbing me-"
"No, L know it. l just do that
from force of habit. Let-me-see.
What was 1 saying? Oh, yes,
says to myself, ANY gent can be
talked to until he is that put about
that he feels as If he"
"What sort of machine do you
use when you shave MANI
"As if he didn't want to come
any MORE and so it is"
"Does it run by steam?'
Its best, according to my mind
to preserve strict silence. Besides
what did you say about the ma
chine? Oh, here it is--'tisn't new,
you know, that IS, 'tisn,t very new,
because er-because it's kind of old.
It's simply a razor with a steel.
comb screwed on. It is impossible
to cut any one with it. You lay it
on the face, you know, and then
just pull it along the cheek like
this"
"Yerp! Let gol It's against the
grain"
ooh, is it? Why. you don't say
[ thought it was with the grain, but
that's just like me. I'm always
making mistakes. Last Chews-
day
Zen minutes later a pallid man
emerged from the quiet shop and
hurried toward the corner. The
patient man looked after MIN with
an expression of sympathy on his
worn features. New York Sun.