Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-06-05
y THE BARRIERS CHAIR.
$50 Talk About the Clip
4 CnPp LOgan's Accidental
Hair Cut.

You ~ have. Shapely, strong, we'll |
head, !oJJ Bic bumps of pride and gen.
develop There's only one thing it needs, |
erosnEit. 49, that? Oh, a haircut. a |
Sir W i, ,,,ouId fix it out beautifully. No,
bar-Ghu oir IS not long, but rough around
yoir Ia Ia Needs trimming, you know. !
the Elm .binc needs trimming at this time
Ever! "a cor Even boys need q little |
Of u? :,3 Of that sort. The other day my
aiIel,. ooi, NV best razor to skin dog |
BOY ~ o,,' he did get trimming. Talk |
WILL On, trimming, last week my wife |
ing ayUo for 10 cents, What's that for? |
9sAeT For 4 new straw hat says she. /
a!s - o,ourh.' saws l. But the next |
IneIP osl,ed me for four dollars and
daii And what's that for?' says l. For |
nan ,,-r1mings.' SAYS she. How will you
the u'- IoIr hair? Short all around? |
nav lr,,od YOU say? Correct. A great |
I,na[Fbne? Should say 1t was. Don't |
i Ilaynb how in the world we'd get along |
h shout the clipping machine. It's a
'l,j friend TO the poor barber. We can
49, mans hair in half the time it takes |
SGt tbe shears. Time is money, you
, g.'r That's what Joe Riley said when
~ hIV stole NV watch and skipped to the !
D,,,,sbop with it, and that's what [ said |
Lon hustled after him, and after
lively chase caught him on the street.
pn nv that isn't the only advan-
, o"s We oct out of the clip. Don't mind
.aTinr Won. sir, seeing that you are man
,5at's not afraid to spend cent. Well,
tba cIip not only saves us half the time in
haircut. but brings a customer back
,uira as quick. 1t makes me smile from
Nv, nose TO the cash drawer when one of
,Iose economical chaps comes in and
cows he guesses he'll take a clip. He
links that haircut will last him all sum-
NOR In q week or ten days he comes in
low shave. and we show him that his
hair needs trimming, which it usually
Zoos You see. hair cut by shears is left
Ionr where il wants to be long, and short
,rLere II wants to be short. In growing
ami if grows in proportion. But clipped
hair crows Just as long in one place as IN
mother. and in a mighty short time a
man has to be trimmed up again II he
don'r want to look like i poodle. We get
at least four more hair cuts out OF Gus
! trmer during a summer if he used the
Jim than we do if he sticks to shears.
Inst see what a big thing that is-four
hair cuts for a dollar. Twenty million
men in the United States who have their
hair cut in barber shops. Five millions
dem use the clip. That's $J,000,0JO a
year. Big thing, you see. One head OF
ioir Is \ small concern, but take q
crowd and there's millions IN 'em, NH
Ions in 'em. Want your neck shaved!
Yes, sir, the clip is q great machine.
twas invented by a poor barber VINO
II red down in New England. \ regular
rnkee. and he was as poor as church
guse. Did you ever hear how he got
yted on the idea? No. Well, he saw
moving machine in operation one day,
nd the man that was running the ma
nine saws, saws he: Jim, III bet
uu ten dollars you can't cut
nv hair as nice and close and smooth as
cut this grass III go you on that,
avs jim. saws he And he went home
mixing faster than horse can trot:
he Yankees are always thinking OF
ONE continuance or other. One came in
n here the other day and pulled out ms
own razor and said | must shave mm
with it. He had peculiar skin disease,
he said. and it wouldn't 60 TO use com
mon razors for fear OF giving it to other
folks. | thought he was a very thought
ml generous sort of man, and l took ms
nzor. 1t was as dull as a shaving news
paper. What's 4 shaving newspaper
On the biz blanket sheets. We buy
them TO cut up for razoT-Wipes. We take
fine Fgrald 10 read. Don't ask questions
mvoull get me mixed up. Where was
II Oh. yes; this Yankees razor had L
be all sharpened up before could az
ANYTHING with it. Took me an hour tx
sharpen his razor and shave him. AS NJ
4 handed me his ID cents he says:
can'aIlv shave myself at home, but once
in awhile when my razor gets dull CONF
70 the shop. It's a darned sight cheape
than to 90 an pay half dollar to, hay
my razor sharpened.' That's all yer
nice for YOU saws /, 'but it's no fun 10
me. how about your skin disease" On
he saws. saws he, as he went through tn
door. that's the way l have OF skinnln
the BARRIERS Sit up straight, please.
"Wen. this down-East Yankee went I
work on the moving machine laea. /
two weeks he had his first machine COZ
structed. Here, SAM he says to brus
bow. I've got a little moving machln
here for cutting hair, an ! want to try
On YOU The trial was made. But
wasn't 4 success. Hair few all over u
room. the chair was turned over, and Sal
Sreeched like q strawberry vender.
see, the first machine was geared lit
too strong. and it pulled. Dat 5 !
mowin' machine SAYS Sam, says he, II
a potato dirgah. dat's what 1t ar
That night Sam resigned ms place. IL
next night the new hoy quit win VIII III
streak down the side OF his head' II
third boy staid two days, and ms nloIll
then apprenticed him to a Wlg-Iiah'
The fourth boy stuck nearly a week a
then Joined Juvenile pantomlme trou
to play % Humpty Dumpty-. but III K
than month the Yankee had ms III
chine down fine. She worked IKE
charm Just then the farmer came alo
to have his hair cut The barber hltcil
up his little machine and pranced arou
ms head, making the hay seed ana thle
down fly like chaf out OF q threShi
machine. Good job says the farm
says he, how much@ Ten dollars a
aquarter, saws the barber. what, SlU
Tor haircut" Yes, an shell OUT
III let the sickle-bar down two notcL
an NOW your hair up by the roots
got his money. borrowed $40 from
other man, and applied for Il patent,
patent was issued and he made T2oo,'
IN five years. When they first came
the clips sold at $40 each. Then u
came down to 81, and now they are 0
a. Every barbershop in the I'M
States that's worth having a painted
has a clip, and some of them has doZ
Oil?
Nov, speakin' Of BARRIERS poles,
me tell you of pole saw once out ="
IL was in a new town / was looking