St. Paul daily globe., 1888-07-09
FAIR KNIGHTS OFTHE RAZOR.
Great Economy Possible if Your
Husband Truly Trusts You.


Husband Truly Trusts You.
Atlanta Journal.
"My hair cut. please, but no shave"
"Dld understand you to say that you
did not want shave?"
"That's what | said"
"Your boards long, sir, and it's Sat-
urday night"
Eyes, but I'll get shaved when go
home."
''Oh, yes, shave yourself now."
mo, don't shave myself: my wife
is my barber, and there isn't better
one in Atlanta
overheard the above in barber shop
on Alabama street. My attention had
been directed to the speakers of the
dialogue by remark from little four
year-old girl who was having her bangs
trimmed, The gentleman whose wife
did his shaving had no hair on the top
of his head, which may have been the
work of his conjugal tonsorial artist,
and the little girl had innOcently asked
why that man was having his head
'peeled.''
1 said to the barber, before he had
reached the point of stopping up my
nose and mouth and letting me enjoy
the delightful sensation of breathing
through my ears:
Ibid the gentleman who just left this
chair say his wife shaved him?"
"Yes: that's what he said, and he
isn't the first one either who has said
the same thing lately. 1 was told the
other day that there was sort Of craze
among the ladies of Atlanta to shave
their husbands"
won't it hurt your business?'
''Well, yes, it may for little while,
but it will play out like any other
craZe.''
Before l left I had secured the names
of a half dozen or more gentlemen to
whom L could apply for further infOrma-
tion about the craze; persons who had
themselves been parties of the second
part, so to speak.
hunted some of them up and was
more than convinced that if the fair
slowed upon them they would not only
make somebody pay for shaves, but
would charge a double price.
"a pIeasure!" exclaimed an enthusi-
asst, 'why, man does not know what a
real good shave is until he lets his wife
be his barber. 1t takes her long time,
of course, because she is cautious and
careful, but so much the better. My
wife has never so much as scratched me
except once when the baby was crying,
and she was little nervous. Then she
barely touched my ear, and it didn't
amount to much. Yes, sir; my day for
barber shops is past"
The second gentleman l interviewed
who had his barber shop at home was
equally as enthusiastic as the first.
''It takes wonderful amount of cour-
age the first time it's tried" he said,
land / will never forget how | felt when
l sat in chair slightly tilted back wait
ing while my wife was getting the shay
ing apparatus ready in a buSiness-like
way. Her complacency did not at all
reasSure me, and l watched the razor in
her hand with a great deal more fearful
anxiety than one does the 'pullikins' in
the hands of a dentist. l had chill
when she made the first pass over my
face with the razor. Every second or
two l wiped the damp places on my chin
and looked at the towel to see If it was
red with gore. | came very near caving
in when she began to manipulate the
razor about my Adams apple. passed
through the ordeal safely, however.
After awhile, when | began to feel Sc
cure about it, the operation became eX-
ceedingly pleasant, and now [ just look
forward with delight to my shaving
days"
A third husband SAID his wife not
only shaved him, but was beginning to
learn how to trim his hair.
''She straps her own razor" he said,
''and goes through with the bay rum ap-
plication, the pOwdering, etc, just as
barber does. She also Shampoos my
hair. And / might add that pay regu-
lar prices for the work, which amounts
to about S4 a month or $50 year. l
guess it goes for ribbons and laces.
But that makes no difference to me; l
get pleasant shave three times week
and l would much rather pay the money
to my wife than to barber"