The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-05-31

Heat and Hotels Of Washington.
When got Off the Pennsylvania train yes
terday | went to a barber shop before did
| ANYTHING else have thick, Venetian red,
chinchilla beard, which grows very rapidly,
and which gives me funny appearance
every twenty four hours, unless place my
self frequently in the hands OF the barber
At first used to shave myself but cut my
self 10 pieces III such sickening manner,
without seeming to impede the growth OF the
rich and foxy beard, that until last summer
gave up being my own barber AT that
time / was presented with safety razor,
which the manufactures said would not cut
my face. because it was impossible for 1t to
cnt ANYTHING except the beard Tho
safety razor resembles in appearance sew
eral other toilet articles, such rs the
spoke shave the road scraper, tho can
opener. the lawn mower and the turbine
water wheel. but it does not look like razor.
Il also looks like a carpet sweeper some, and
reminds me OF a monkey wrench. IL is said
that You can shave YOU '-ef on a train If you
will Use th, instrument. tried it once last
winter white going west. In fact, took the
trip largely 10 sec If one could shave OF board
the train safely with this razor. | had no
spec,qi trouble At least did not cut off
any features that cared anything about, but
was disappointed in the results and also III
the lenr.h OF time consunied in cleaning the
razor after / got through | was shaving
myself ONLY from Forty-secOnd street TO Al
bany. but it tool; me FROM Albany TO Omaha
to pull the razor apart and to dig out the CO.
agulatcd lathcr and the dear dead Whiskers.
Inow employ a valet, whose name Is Patria
McGloria. He irons my trousers, SLAVES and
dresses me and mows the lawn
Ida not fall into a very saudy barber
shop.
It was a plain structure with beautiful
sarsapoiJlla pictures here and there on the
walls and a faint odor of rancid pOnatum
and oyerwOrhei hair restoratiycs
There were three chairs richly upholstered
in two ply carpeiing of some inllamnatory
hue. with large vines and the kind Of flowers
which grow on carpets but nowhere else. |
have seen blossoms woven into ingram car
pets. varying in color from dead black To
the color Of a hepatized lung, but ! have
never seen one that reminded me of anything
ever saw in nature The chair sat in also
had springs in it, They were made Of seec-
tons from the Washington monument
The barber who waited on me asked me if
wanted a shave. \ great many BARRIERS
ask me this during the year Sometimes they
do it from habit and sometimes they do IL 10
brighton mp my life and bring a smile 10 my
wan check As have no hair, the thinking
mind naturally and by a direct course Of
! reasoning arrives at the conclusion that when
20 into barber shop and climb into chair,
| do so for the purpose OF getting shaved and
not with the idea u having my fortune told
or my deposition taken Still BARRIERS con
time to ask me this question and look at each
other with i'll concealed mirth.
said yes would like shave unless he
preferred to take my temperature or amuSe
me by making death masl, Of himself He
then BEGAN TO strap a large razor with
double shuttle movement and 10 size me. up at
the same time He was a colored man, but
he had lived in Washington a long time and
| knew n great deal more than he would if his
lot had fallen elsewhere lie spoke with some
| feeling and fell m. with about the most I'M
palatablo lathcr think I ever participated
| in He also did an odd thing when he went
for the second time over my face. never
have noticed the custom outside of that shop
Most BARRIERS, in making tho second trip over
n customer, face. mOsten one side at time
with a sponge or the damp rand rs they go
along. but in this case a large quantity Of
lather was put in my ear, and, as he needed
il. he took ont what he required from time to
time. using his finger like paint brush and
spreading on the lather % he went along So
l.. to t,,a.-t,r.. tlo
quantity Of lather which gu ear will hold
that when he got through with NE and went
away there was not over a tablespoonful in
either ear and possibly not that much.
While | sat in the chair heard man, who
seemed 70 be in about the third chair from
me. saving that certain bill numbered 50
and so had been referred 10 certain COM
mit,oe and would undoubtedly be reported
fayorablv II SO. it would in it, regular
order come up for discussion and reach avOte
50 and So was charmed with the mans
knowledge Of the condition Of affairs in both
houses and the exact status Of all threatened
LEGISLATION, because always have TO stop and
,hinl, a good while before | can tell whether
bill originates on the floor Of the house or
in the rOtunfa.
l
ne was senator or sergeant-at-arns. He
talked for some time about the condition Of
national affairs, and finally some one said
something about evolution. | was perfectly
wrapped up in what he was saying, and re-
membered distinctly how he referred to
Herbert Spencer's definition Of evolution as
1 change from indefinite, incoherent homo
gonety to definite, coherent hcterogencity
through continuous diGerentiations and i'll
Gegrations.
When | arose from my chair and looked
over that way | saw that the gentleman who
had been talking on the condition OF congress
sional legislation was colored hotel porter
If Washington, who was getting shaved in
the third chair, and the man who was dis
cussing the merits Of evolution was the col
ored man who was shaving him.
As spring warns up the air about Wash
ingtcn tie heating apparatus about the Capt.
tol building begins 10 relax its interest, and
now you can visit most any part Of the
stately pile without being scrambled in your
own embOnpoint.
believe this uISatural heat ~ be the
LII. lart