The Ottawa free trader., 1888-02-11

stiD golden, and not the silver that it is now.
Their muscles welded the razor that kept the
fat cheeks of Joe Mcdonald clean, and care
fully left only wisp of gray at his throat
Arthur, dandy that he was rs to his shaving,
had his face lathered here when he was vice
president, and Chief Justice Chase has often
come here for shave. He has shaved
Senator Morrill,, he tells me- for twenty five
years, every session of congress, and John
Sherman's long locks have been cut by his
scissors. asked him if he ever shipped the
wings of the presidential bee which buzZed
around them. But he did not appreciate the
joke.
He tells me that most of the senators are
''plain gentlemen" and some of their best
stories are told in his chair. They talk to
him, at times, of politics, and the most Of
them laugh and joke while he trims up their
whiskers Senator Allson's beard,n said
he, sis stiff one, and he likes to have it
trimmed about two inches long" Beck has
his head well lathered, and he is fond Of a
good shampoo. Many CT the senator's do not
shave in the winter, because they care to
protect their throats and they fear bron-
chitis, and more shaving is done in the sem
ate barber shop in the spring and the sum-
mer.
| asked the barber as to Senator Mander-
son, and he told me that he was mice little
gentleman" He says Riddleberger is plain
in his manners" and he has never detected
trace of rum while shaving him He cuts
Senator Culom's hair quite frequently, and
he says it is growing surprisingly thin at the
top. He shaved Wade Hampton's beard off
last summer, and he describes HamptOn's
woe at seeing the change in his face. 1t took
away all his resemblance to Kaiser Wilhelm
Of Germany, and made him look quite an
ordinary man.
talked with this barber of some of his
great customers of the past, and he told me
how Charles Sumner used to correct his
grammar, and how he was a fine gentleman
of the English style Roscoe COnkling re-
minded him of Sir Edward Thornton, who
was once the British minister here, and
Blaine was one of the most decent men in
the BARRIERS chair he had ever known.
This senate barber shop is paid for by the
government, and the BARRIERS get salaries
A senator of the United States receives
5000 year, and Uncle Sam pays also for
his private secretary. He pays also for his
shaves and his baths, and doubt not, these
senator's would vote themselves free feeds at
the restaurants if they thought it would not
hurt them with their constituents.
Speaking Of the bath rooms, they have all
kinds in this barber shop, and these fat mil
Iionaire senator's take their Turkish baths
free, and then lie down on a soft couch and
smoke cigars until they fall into the arms of
Morpheus Some Of them use the baths for
reducing their flesh, and Philetus Sawyer
lost ten pounds in this way last year, while
Eli Saulsbury's thinness is aScribed to his
frequent baths. Payne, of Ohio, is another
man who takes many baths. Allison, of
Iowa, prefers a shower bath, and John Sher-
man likes to have the cold water spout over
his long, thin frame. Dan Voorhees, has
periodical fits of bathing, and for weeks he is
as clean as a newly washed baby from his
daily ablutons Then he will not take a
bath for a week Turpie, the new senator
from Indiana has not yet patronized the
senatorial bath tubs.