The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-17
THE DANGEROUS BARBER.

According to a Physician He Is RESPONSE
BILE for the Sore Threats of His Custom
ers.
How many prescriptions for sore
throats do you suppose I've written in
the last week." asked a Detroit doctor
yesterday.
''Oh, perhaps a dozen"
NEARLY thirty, sir. And what do
you think the cause in every case WASP"
Change of weather. of course"
Change of nothingl There were
two cases where the patients slept with
open windows and got cold, but in all
the rest the ailment could be traced di-
rectly to the barber
What did the barber do?"
''Cut their hair. / tell you the aver
age barber is more dangerous foe to
humanity than cholera and smallpox.
While they can be guarded against or
stamped out, he lives on year after
year"
lis it dangerous to get the hair
cut?"
Outside of three summer months it
is. Take a raw day and forty-nine out of
every fifty men who get into BARRIERS
chair to have their hair even trimmed
will have a cold or sore throat before
the next night. l would rather take 4
walk for two hours without my over
coat than to have two ounces of hair
shipped off my head"
But if people want their hair cut
how is the barber to blame?"
He is all to blame. No one should
have his hair cut more than twice 4
year-May and Superintendent it
should be done then only on a warm
day. Have your hair cut to-day and
90 to barber-shop three days hence,
and the barber will observe:
- Have your hair cut?'
" No
{" But you'd better; getting pretty
long, sir
Why, had it cut only few days
ago
- Yes. sir; but he made botch Job
of it. Wants to be trimmed very bad >
Take it in the case of young men
and boys" continued the doctor. "A
word from the barber is sufficient TO
make them submit to haircut or
shampoo. Those who don't hear from
the hair-cutting may certainly expect
to from the shampoo. You walk out of
the shop into the cold air, and within
twenty-four hours you can look for
neuralgia, toothache, earache or sore
throat
Would you advise a law on the sub
ject?'
I'VE couldn't make law to cover
people to investigate the matter and
exercise judgment and common sense.
1t is just as bad to rob your head as
your feet. You wouldn't dare take
your socks off day like this, and yet
the BARRIERS of Detroit will cut the hair
from five hundred men and boys. The
risk is even greater than in pulling Oft
an underShirt. People should under
stand this. have seen dozen cases
of pneumonia brought on by haircut
ting on cold day. 1t is responsible
for much of the asthma. and perhaps
for some of the consumption"
How about shaving. dOctor?"
1t is dangerous habit. You can
trace nearly every case OF toothache
and facial neuralgia in man to the
habit of shaving. If all men protected
their threats by chin-whiskers and the
nerves of the face by a liberal growth
you wouldn't hear of half the present
ailments. When | was boy | never
heard of a case of neuralgia in the |
facial nerves. In these days it is as
as eases of ague. Men used |
to wear boards. The fashion of to-day !
is meant to encourage ailments. SHAY
ing opens the pores of the faee-and i'll I
viteS neuralgia to step in and twitch the
well, is that all tO-dav?"
"All but one thing. When barber !
invites YOU to have your hair cut on
raw day please rise up and punch his
head-for me. "-DetrOh Free Press