Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-01
THE HAIR AND BEARD.
POINTS FROM ABARBER OF 80
YEARS EXPERIENCE.

the easiest to shave" said one of the officers
trade over thirty years. 1.-THE easiest men to
shave are fat men. The fatter man is the
less work it is for a barber to shave him. II
is not the size of mans face so much or the
strength of his beard as the chance a barber
has to get at it. When q man is thin and the
bones Of his face stick out at angles barber
must be careful or he will run his razor
through the skin by trying to cut too long
and wide at a stroke. With q thin man be
must 60 along little at a time, while on a
fat man he takes heavy razor with q wide
edge and mows the beard off.
~Boys are not easy to shave well. The hair
on their face has no. strength, and the razor
glides over it without taking it off, or the
barber leaves patches which he doesn't notice
The sharper razor is the worse it is to shave
fuzz with it. 1t takes some time for the fuzz
to tougher, and until it toughens and has
some resistance to it the barber is bothered in
shaving. It is not so much the strength of
the beard that causes trouble in shaving as it
is the tenderness Of the skin. The skin of
boys and young men il more tender than the
skin of older men. That makes the barber
take more care to avoid cutting through. A
tough beard on a tough face is not so bad as
an easy beard on a tender face.
RED BEARDs-CURLY HAIR
@Red boards are worst do not mean au-
burn boards q have an auburn beard myself,
but those red boards that grow out like wire
and have thin skin under them. There are
black boards that are as tough as those wiry
red ones, but man with tough black beard
usually has tough skin, and you can NOW
the hair of him, while red bearded men have
cranky skins. 1t is better to have the same
barber shave you, on account of the peculi-
| arities Of hair and skin that every man has.
The hair of the face does not grow in an even
grain, and no barber who shaves you the first
time will take it just right II you have n
tough skin improper shaving will not matter
so much; but if your skin is tender. little
pimples will break out where the razor went
| the wrong way. Then, a barber becomes &C
| quainted with the soft and hard spots of your
| face, and makes allowances 1t is better to
have fairly good barber shave you steadily
than to change around among the best.
Curly hair is easier to cut than straight
| hair because it is softer. The softer and finer
! hair is the less work it is to cut it. Most
people think that curly hair is hard to cut
but that depends on the toughness Of it,
Some hair is so tough that it blunts the scis-
5ors. The oftener hair is cut the harder it is
to cut it. Black or red hair is the hardest to
cut, as the hair is stronger. Fair, curly hair
is easiest. 1t is q great deal with hair cutting
| as with shaving. The barber who knows
about you will give you better satisfaction
than the barber who doesn't.
There is one thing about BARRIERS that
have often wondered over There are more
bald BARRIERS in proportion than there are bald
men in any other business. l do not know
why BARRIERS become bald. Perhaps it is
worry, or, moro likely. it is thought. BARRIERS
are great thinkers Their toll at shaving or
cutting hair is, 60 certain extent, mechani-
cal, and 1t leaves the mind free. That may
account for the number of bald BARRIERS, but
have never been able quite to explain it,
BARRIERS used to wear their hair long, and
take great care in having each lock oiled and
carefully curled, but only some of the old
time BARRIERS do that now. The new BARRIERS
have become dandies, and wear their hair
short. They are too careful about their per-
sonal appearance
PREACHERS, DOCTORS, ACTORS
preachers take more care of their hair
shan anybody else, and none of them wear
.ong hair. They have all kinds of boards and
hair, just as other men, but they arrange their
tair and boards differently Now, there isn't
any man that ! would rather have shaved
than Henry Ward Beecher. He had nice.
lat, easy face. But Taimage-well, he's too
hin IN the face, and his lower jaw is not
smooth enough. There are angles in the Jaw
bones, and I'd be afraid to scrape the skin off
one of them. Catholic priests are seldom
bald, especially the priests who have their
tonsures shaved. That preserves the hair On
the top of the head. Protestant preachers
usually wear long hair. As class their hair
IS longest.
doctors are careful Of their hair, but
many of them grow bald or gray. l have
theory that grayness is caused by the loss of
lime and iron in the system, and doctors must
lose their lime and iron quicker than preachers.
Some doctors think it helps them in their
practice If they grow gray young.
brokers build lot on their personal APP
pearance, but they do not pay sufficient at
tention to their hair. They put it off on their
BARRIERS instead Of looking after their hair
themselves A man must brush his hair often
il he wants il to look right. A broker goes
to barbershop in the morning to be shaved,
aud has his hair brushed then instead of look
ing after it himself.
Newspaper men take less care of theft hair
than men in any other business They veal
1t cut short to save them the time and trouble
of brushing it. Men who work on newspapers
are short haired race
''Storekeepers, except in the dry goods line |
do not wear short hair The further I'D in
the store you get the longer is the hair worn.
The clerks and statesmen have short spruce |
hair, while the heads of the firms could tickle
their noses with their back hair
"Bartenders and actors are among the me-, |
who travel on their personal appearance. but |
they do not impart sufficient individuality to |
their hair. They give the whole care OF Their |
head over 70 some barber who possibly is not |
competent for the task. A man should take |
an interest i'll his own hair. 1t is something /
70 be thought over and TO be made something |
OF, A man should try different arrangements |
of his hair ard beard TO see which are mos
becoming, and should consult with his barber
as he does with his physician. 4 barber can.
not do what's best for a man unless the man
takes personal interest in it The owner OF
the hal. should supply the fullest information,
TO the barber, who then can act with intell
gence New York Sun.
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