Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-02-11
BARBER PHILOSOPHY.
Why Sensible Men Don't Shave
n Winter.
New Kind OF CFinstory Adornment-
The Mother Hubbard" whisksr-A
Late London Agony Affected W
Dudes ct Ia omne GeBus-


remarked a Clark street barber as he made I
several preliminary clips az the reporters 4
forel0ck; bat | am telling you differ
ent We have our ups and downs just 1
ike the hardware and dry-goods men Ia I
summer, for instance, We generally shave !
two hundred men day here, but to-day /
| have had os!y about seventy five In, and
/ don't suppose fifty more will show up
before We close. For the next six or seven
months We won't average more than one
hundred and fifty customers day. Just
a little higher, please Thsrs now,
st-e-a-dy."
The reporter settled himself in his new
position, and the man continued:
= Lots OF men begin 10 let out their
boards about now. The middle-aged men
want 20 be comfortable, and q beard is
big protection To tho throat Shaving
cleans of the dirt, and hair and dead skin
from a mans face and leaves all the pores
open, so that. when he goes out or q hot
barber shop in the cold air he Is bound TO
catch cold in spite OF all the bay-rum you
can pat on. More clean shaved men have
throat trouble and catarrh than those that
grow boards In she winter. The young
dudes who can raise boards let them out so
as TO look stylish ami Englishy. The very
latest tony thing, You know. is a Mother
Hubbard beard"
The reporter interpolated gasp OF won
der in the barber's stream OF conversation
as be Questioned: What is that!"
''If YOU want Mother Hubbard whis.
kerr" continued the knight of the razor,
keep your sides and chop whiskers cut
H.. xxrsf fno nd n half nf
your chin, where you let them grow long.
Then train and trim this long part into the
shape OF an inverted half moon; Ix ths
long ends so that they po. mt about for your
armpits, and you've got a Mother Hubbard
beard. They are the swell thing among
the London dudes for this winter"
Are full boards to be the fashion this
winter, do you mean!"
That's about the size Of il. / guess ]
have had more young fellows asking me
about how long their boards would take to
grow, whether / had any invigorator TO
help out the hair just below the lips, or
how 10 train and part whiskers, than
ever had before. Here's French arrange
ment l got in a week ago for training
boards when they are starting" taking
something resembling David's sling made
OF rubber from the shelf. 81 have sold ten
of them since the lot got here from New
York"
'How do they work."
''The rubber, you see, Is made to fit
the chin and jaw. That seam in the mid
die goes right up and down where you
want your beard to part. When man
uses this be must first put little wax on
his chin whislxers when they're about one
inch out and then Ht that seam down the
middle Of his chin and throat When he
goes to tie those strings behind his head
the rubber stretches and pulls back the
hair SO that it sets towards his ears, just
in the right shape for a dude whisker. II
fellow follows these direct ons for five or
SIX nights be will have the hair on his face
fixed so that ii won't need hauling, and
pulling, and brushing into shape Besides
a man by using this can look respectable
with only a two-weeks' growth on his face
and his beard viii appear to be a full
growth cut back"
~ should think that the strain on mans
chin would be too tiresome for the machine
TO be practicable"
40, no. Just pus one on for few
nights in succession and you can JieeT
while your beard is being trained. 1t saves
all the pulling that ruins a beard. You
get the habit OF pulling and twisting youI
whiskers when you're starting 'em, and
YOU will never get over it You1l keep or
pulling and twisting till you split the hail
out at the ends, and then your whole bearc
VII get ragged and stubbed like a gam.
bler's mustache. Too much trimming
49,. T. In boz
a beard stiff, while too much combing oil
finger ng splits the hairs and stops theil
growth. Lots OF men say to me aftel
shaving of beard they have been fussing
with all winter; What makes my face 81
soreg Ever since I shaved my necl
chafes' etc. Your hair is split l Away
tell 'em. They have rubbed and twisted
the hair together, you see, till il is all spill
op 50 that when they shave il back int
the skin 10 splits before it can grow out anC
curls in under the skin. Half of the mel
with chafed necks and broken out face
can attribute their trouble TO just thi
. cause. O, this French business will be an A
; thing after people get hold of the motion
that it is as much OF business TO rails
a beard as 10 is to make shoes, or-or-
and the barber paused for breath while h
tried to subdue the reporters unruly scalp
4 lock.
: "whas did you mean when you spok
& about n gamblers stubby mustachef"
"wel. YOU know these phreuologists 81
} that they can tell what kind OF fsllov
they have hold Of by feeling of his hair.
4 its silky they call him redaed. but II it
q rough they say that he IL no good. Now
e sav can tell good deal about man b
the wav he keeps his whisksrs A nervou
man nearly always has Short, stabb,
aud chewesl-up mustache. Gamblers mus
Z saches are about always thaswsy. watc
n sons or 'sm as . faro or rouletts tab
r soue time. and youu notice that when u
t iauhle-na8xht green scoops their pile {
thav copper the ace At the svrong time n
e nnstachs has - catch IT, n they're
= asrd luck they keep one hand on ths chiF
aad tha other al their whisksra. Do yc