The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-07-15
BARRIERS IN GERMANY.
How 1t Feels to Get Shaved for the First
Time by Knight of the Razor in Fader-
land.

Time by Knight of the Razor in Fader-
land.
lSt. Louis Globe Democrat
''The first time / ever got shaved in Ger
many" said a barber yesterday afternoon,
81 thought should die. 1t beat anything
I ever experienced before. The BARRIERS
over there are pretty smart looking fell
lows, but they don't know the first thing
about the profession, as we understand it
in this country. The better class of peo-
pie. as a rule, do not go to the barber to get
shaved-the barber goes to them. If you
Jake up your residence in a German town,
one of your first callers will be barber So
Letting your custom. He will undertake
to shave you three times a week for about
81 per month, four times for about $3.50
and daily for about $3.50. He will call on
you on shaving mornings just as you get
out of bed, and you can make yourself as
comfortable as possible in straight back
chair, and have your neck broken in any
manner that suits your taste best. The
barber carries his implements of torture in
a little morocco case, something like a cOnr
Doctors. In a little patent-leather roll he
carries his apron. When he enters the
room he dances around like a daddy long
legs on hot griddle, and lays his traps
wide open on the wash stand or table. He
mixes his lather with his finger, and when
you have screwed yourself up in the chair
he looks at you steadily for a
moment to see if your nerves are
all right, and then he daubs you.
He never uses a lather brush No, he
scarcely knows what a lather brush is. He
smears suds over your face with his fingers
and doesn't seem to be particular whether
he lets you taste it or not. After he has
he
at you with the razor. Then he
commences. There is no rest for
your head, but he doesn't mind that. He
puts his strong, cold, clanlmy left hand on
your forehead and bends your neck back as
though it were constructed on the univer-
sal joint system. If you will sit in a
straight-back chair and throw your head
back, keeping it in that position for about
two minutes, you will be able to form a
moderate idea of the torture the barber in
Germany subjects one to. But it will be
only a moderate idea, for isn't he there to
pull your head down lower than nature
ever intended it should go whenever you
show the slightest inclination to straighten
it up? The pain across the back of your
poor neck becomes excruciatng at once,
but you soon lose sight of it. The moment
he begins to skin your jaw against the
grain you forget all about the back of your
neck. He fourishes the razor above your
head for moment, makes feint or two,
so as to inspire you with terror, and then
swoops down on you suddenly, and sends
you off into spasms. Spasms are nothing
to the German barber. He pays no atten-
ton to the contortions of your face nor the
writhing of your body, but flourishes his
razor once more, and as he hacks at the
short hair on the tender part of your chin
you drop gently into a CONFUSION, from
which you recover oulF to sac him packing
up his tools PREF hrhtory TO flight. Then
as you straighten up in the chair, bewil-
dered as one who has just awakened from
a horrible nightmare, he smiles, thanks
rou. bids Won GOOD morning and is gone"
Another of Raphaers pictures has been
found In western town The frequency Of
occurrences Of this sort gives rise to the be-
NME