The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-26
THE BARBER sOLILooUIzEs.
And Tells What He Knows About Men
and Their Vanities.


From the Nelo York Grdphic.
The place to study the vanities of men is
IN the barber shop. Here you will see to
chat extremes the sterner sex will go. The
torber was shrewd when he decorated his
rolls with mirrors. He simply studied the
,yaaknesses of his customers and then pro-
ceeded to indulge them.
.eWhen a man comes into barber shop it
e. With the intention of being beautiful to
5o,ne EXTENT says well-known tonsorlal
bTtist who has been shaving the faces and
rfopping the craniums of New York cltlzens
for many year. nave haue sIuuy "
+ba neculiarities of my customers, some of
1ybom have been attended by me since the
erst show of down came out on their chlns,
until now the passing years are leaving their
silver milestones among the tresSes OF golu,
0f brown and Of raven.
stThe Young fellow discovers shadowy
Growth of hair on his upper lip, and
straightway he comes to the barber TO get
ADVICE as to the best means of forcing the
faahle exotic OF course constant shaving
- recommended as tonic and fertilizer,
and the vanity of that young man as the
silken down changes to brlstly beard Is
wonderful He stands before the glass,
rubs his fingers over his chin and lip, ad-
mires himself and then struts out with
idly. .. u;
,,ant in barber shops. They will begin with
little mustache; then comes the short side
Growth, reaching just below the tip OF the
ear. Occasionally young man Will grow
a full side whiskers; again, Will try an all
around beard. sometimes clipped rather
close, at others parted In the middle. But no
matter in what way he grows his beard he
ba
10 the shop in the glass. My opinion is
asked invariably as to what l think Of this
way or that way of wearing the beard.
This NAV be called eccentric, but L know 1t
is vanity.
sWhile the young men are whimsical
enough it takes the old fellow to test the
arts of the barber in the direction of i'm
nrovinp his appearances. 1t is always said
that n woman weeps as the first gray hair
is discovered, bat think she does not grieve
any more than man does. The woman
win null hers out, but the man will lnvarl-
ABLY rush to the barber shop and pour his
burden of woe into the sympathetic ear OF
the barber.
con. YOU may think that men don't care
about gray hairs, but they do. Look at
that array of bottlesl Those are dyes, and
nearly every shade Imaginable is kept on
hand lust to obliterate the struggling
threads of gray that begin to come along
with the 3Oth birthday in the heads OF my
customers.
s.It Is seldom of late years that a man
with red hair and mustache calls on the
barber to dye the latter black, but not
many years ago nearly every countryman
| that had a sanguine hirsuite appendage on
his arrival in the city would go at once to u
I barber to have his mustache dyed. 1t was
amusing to watch one of the fellows con-
template the effect in the mirrors after the
transformation. The 81 he was asked to
pay for the work was generally cheerfully
given, for his vanity was so great that he
was willing to maintain it at any cost.
"a barber that is up to snuff will keep a
variety of complexion beautItiers. Among
his customers he will always lind some men
who, ON special occasions, want to be made
up. have several customers whose COM
plexions are somewhat horid, and they al
WAYS whisper in my ear, Don't forget the
lily white Sometimes a man comes into
the shop with lobster color in his checks
and rich purple on his nose, but when he
leaves these colOrS are Subdued and soft
ened until his face looks like school girls.
at is not an uncommon thing for an old
fellow, through whose veins still courses
young blood, to take the whole beauufying
course. First his face is cleanly shaven,
cooled with ice water, then famed until
perfectly dry; then it is brisky rubbed
with channels until it is soft and smooth.
An application of bloom of youth fol-
lows and finally a little rouge and another
chamois polishing. After all this the gay
old bird takes hand-glaSs and lays back in
the chair to admire himself thoroughly.
When he gets up to leave there is a satisfied
look on his face that shines through the 10
ton and the rouge.
The summer Widower is the BARRIERS
best friend. As soon as he sees his wife and
family off then he makes a Decline for
barber shop. Perhaps he has not been shaw
ing very often while enacting the role of
domestic husband under his wifes watchful
eyes, but as the better leaves everything
goes He wants shampooing two or
three times a week and never misses day
without getting shaved. His mustache
must be carefully curled and perfumed. l
keep special brand of the finest perfume
just for the summer widowe or. He never
grumbles at the price of extras and always
tips the brush-boy literally. He often
comes in very early in the morning and
generally little bit shaky. His head is
Dathed with bay rum and his face and
temples with water as hot as he can bear it
The hot water takes the dissipation
wrinkles out and the bay rum and the rub
bling starts the congested blood-vessels Of
the head and face with action. After half
an hours manipulation the badly broken
up summer widower goes out to business
keen eyes of his mother-in-law would de-
tsct no sign of the previous nights hi
larity.
The old gentleman on whose dome of
thought the hair is growing thin is the most
4 tuSSy and troublesome customer that comes
into barber shop. When the fringe down
around the neck has to be trimmed the old
gent will hold a hand-glass for fear lock Of
The long tufts that he has been training to
cover the bald spot on the top should fall
before the shears of the careless barber
When it comes to combing and brushing.
every hair has got to lay in certain place
or the vain old gentleman will begin to get
rosy with suppressed emotion.
There are hundreds of little tricks that
the barber resorts to to make his particular
customers contented with themselves. One
Is TO remark as the man leaves the chair:
NOW YOU look like a winner; if / were
elFl I'd get stuck on YOU l generally win
ABOUT ten cigars a day for ringing in some
suen remarks as that
HE cigar dealer has caught on to the
weaknesses of men as well as the barber,
aha now he has a glittering mirror just
oacA OF his Lighting lamp, where customer
ca az9 himself up while he drinks in the
tIesh ilavor of new cigar. If any one will
.'.Ae the trouble to notice he will see that
nIsjlNty nine out of every 100 men who go up
!Ttght cigar invariably devote a moment
~ Tue contemplation Of their reflections in
Iue mirror that faces them Such things