The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-06-12
BARBER PHILOSOPHY.
Why Sensible Men Don't Shave
in Winter.
4 New Kind of Crinatory Adjournment
The Mother Hubbard" WhiSker-A
Late London Agony Affected by
Dudes ct id Omne Genus.
rChicago Tribune.J

fOTelOck: - but l am telling you diner +
emit We have our ups and downs just /
like the hardware and dry-goOds men. In
summer. for instance, we generally shave
two hundred men a day here, but to-day
have had only about seventy five in, and
1 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. There now,
st-e-a-dy."
The reporter settled himself in his new
position, and the man continued:
- Lots of men begin TO let out their
boards about now. The middle-aged men
want to be comfortable, and beard Is
big protection to the throat. Shaving
cleans off the dirt, and hair and dead skin
from mans face and leaves all the pores
open, so that, when he goes out OF hot
barber-shOp in the cold air he is bound to
catch cold in spite of all the bay-rum you
can put on. More clean-shaved men have
throat trouble and catarrh than those that
grow boards in the winter. The young
dudes who can raise boards let them out 50
as to look stylish and Englishy. The very
latest tony thing, you know, is Mother
Hubbard beard"
The reporter interpolated gasp of Won
der in the BARRIERS stream of conversation
Is he questioned: ''What is that:"
''If you want Mother Hubbard whis-
kerr" continued the knight of the razor,
keep your sides and chop whiske ; cut
short down to within an inch and half of
your chin, where you let them grow long.
Then train and trim this long part into the
shape of an inverted half moon; fix the
long ends so that they point 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 it, l guess
have had more young fellows asking me
about how long their boards would take to
/ grow, whethe l had any invigoratOr to
help out the hair just below the lips, or
/ how to train and part whiskers, than
/ ever had before. Here's French arrange
ment 1 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"
! Show 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 he must first put a little wax on
| his chin whisBers when they're about one
| inch out and then fit 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
4 in the right shape for dude whisker. If
! fellow follows these directions for five or
1 SIX nights he will have the hair on his face
! fixed so that it won't need hauling, and
! pulling, and brushing into shape. Besides,
a man by using this look respectable
with only tvo-weeks' growth on his face,
and his beard will appear to be a full
growth cut back"
4 81 should think that the strain on a mans
chin would be too tiresome for the machine
to he practicable"
SO, no. Just put one for few
nights in succession and you can sleep
while your beard is being trained. 1t saves
all the pulling that ruins a beard. You
get the habit of pulling and twisting your
whisllers when you're starting 'em, and
YOU will never get over it. You'll keep or
pulling and twisting till you split the hair
out at the ends, and then your whole beard
VIII get ragged and stubbed like a gam
I bler's mustache. Too much trimming,
( oftener than on e in two weeks say, makes
q beard stiff while too much comblng or
| finger nc splits the hairs and stops their
1 growth. Lots of men say to me after
/ shaving oil beard they have been fussing
with all winter: What makes my face so
sore: Ever since 1 shaved my neck
chafes.' etc. Your hair is split L always
i tell 'em. They have rubbed and twisted
the hair together, you see, till it Is all split
up so that when they shave 1t back into
] I the skin it splits before it can grow out and
! \ curls in under the skin. Half of the men
, with chafed necks and broken out faces
can attribute their trouble to just this
cause. O. this French business will be an Al
thing after people get hold of the notion
; that it is as much of a business to raise
- a beard as it is to make shoes, or-Or-'
and the barber paused for breath while he
tried to subdue the reporters unruly scalp
lock.
: .'What did you mean when you spoke
about a gamblers stubby mustache:"
"Weil. you know these phrenologistS say
that they can tell what kind of a fellow
they have hold of by feeling of his hair. L
it is silky they call him refined, but il it il
; rough they say that he is no good. Now
say ! can tell good deal about a man by
the way he keeps his whisGers. 4 nervou
man nearly always has short, stubby
I ana cneW tu-up lluSIdCuS. OdiiIl'AClS mus
n taches are about always that way. Watcl
r some of 'em at a faro OF roulette tabl
e some time. and you'll notice that when tn
h doube-nau ght green scoops their pile o
/ they copper the ace at the wrong time tn
r mustache has to catch it, If they're i
Is hard luck they keep one hand ON the chip
: and the other at their whiskers. Do yo
ever bet:"
Yes, when I've got pretty sure thing.
= ''Wen, if You want to make a slick littl
= bet some time, mind what I'm telling you
Ask some fellow how many mustaches h
: would bet there were among hundre
a men passing some place. How many, now
: would you guess"
About fifty would be a pretty hbera
1t figure. | should say"
Ie There it is: everybody is just so wild
% Now. | am telling you Gospel truth when
- saw that on an average eighty five men on
; OF every one hundred wear mustaches, an
l. yo1 can prove it by counting. Is that a
N to-day :''-carefully plastering the inverte
e arch of hair. ''Y on better buy one of thos
d / French''-but the reporter had fled throug
N the side door to hide his ashes of rose
IN shoes from the eyes of the importunat
:, bootblack.
IN An odd EPitaph.
d Washington Capital
y Here is an epitaph VIII ch l transcribe'
= from tombstone in a New Hampshir
D graveyard few weeks ago. There wa