Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-02-20
A W0MAN'S BARBER SHOP.
WHERE BANGS ARE TRIMMED AND
TONGUES ARE FLEET.
IL Isn't So Awfuily Different from n Mans
shop. Only the Customers Do the Talk.
Ing Instead Of the Barber-The Dimpled
Woman in Charge Explains.

Just around an VI town Broadway corner
,s woman's barber shop, with the wiscst.
wlttleSt, merriest womau barber at the head
OF Il, with a naughty dimple in one cheek, a
pair of keen, bright laughing ewes. and a lot
Of soft brown hair twisted up in loops that
shine like gold in The sunlight Probsbly
there isil I n woman in the entire town that
Knows so much of human nature, or has a
| greater fund of IoISonai anecdotes and
"reminiscences of the ladies whose names
till the columns of he society papers than
this merry philosopher, whose keen eyes
see every foible and weakness, but
whose lips keep th,ir counsel we'll When
the twenty-tifth customer comes in and
| rattles on about tie lovely hair she used to
| have, so long that she could sit on it, and so
heavy that she couldn't pull comb through
1t, only suspicion culver in the diuple sug
gests that possibly she has heard that story
something like a mil ion times before from as
many different women. and when fussy man
comes III to superinte nd his wiie's coiffure sug
costing sundry changes in the arrangement in
the hope of improving her faded charms, she
puts the brakes on tie diTuple, aud only after
the door is closed bshind them she remarks
crispiy: ''If that man expects me to make
beauty of his wife hos got TO get different
woman for me to work on. No use wasting
time on her,"
DIRT UNDER Thirty DOLLAR BoNNETs
There is little sifui arity between this place
| and mans barber shop, where men sit in a
cloud of smoke as -hicS as London mist
waiting for the welc1 and familiar call of
"NeXtV or TIT back in a chair, staring at a
lot of pigeonholes fu of cups while the bar
Der Grinds out thr aadbare Jokes. Ladies
step out OF their carriages and trip up the
steps of brown stone house. where on a
silver door plato is Inscribed the hairdresser's
name, and ring the bell A pink and white
low voiced little naideu in a black jersev
and long white apron, opens tho door and
ushers them into large light parlor, where
they lay aside their wraps and follow her
into another room, lined with mirrors, car
petcd with velvet and exquisitely clean
Other girls, In long white aprons and black
jerseys, are brushing the lustrous hair of the
women, who sit abUit leisureiy ia tue Grim
son cushioned chairs
Why do women Lave 50 little hair nova
days| sishs pretty woman of so, with
about one hair where she ought to have 2OO.
Because they don't take care of it, an
swers the hairlresser as the wouans barber
is called They never brush it at all. or
else they don't half Go it. They dig away at
it with a i.ne tooth comb Just because their
grandmotlers did, and never wash it at all,
OF else twice IL year, when they clean house,
scour IL out with bor4x and ammonia. Those
are the very worst things hl the world to use
on the hair Then tney curl it and friz it
with too hot irons and break it all of and
never trim the ends, wear round hats that
cover it all up, and never give it chance to
breathe, as you might say, or get bit of
fresh cir or sunshine and then wonder why
they don't have any hair. Nice ladies' too,
that are so Inicky they wouldn't thlnk of
eating their breakfast without taking bath,
will carry around years accumulation of
dirt under their S3J bonnets and feel
dressed up"
How often ought lady to have her hair
attended tor
She ought to attend 70 it herself every
night and morning with good stiff brush,
and thcn so TO haDdresser once month
for dry shampoo and onco a month the
hair should be thoroughly cleansed with Cas-
tile soap and water Why, my regular Gus
toners have their own brushes here, and
come as often as once d weeh Look" And.
opening cupboard door, she exhibited rows
and row. OF heavy English brushes, each
bearing on the haudls the name Of the owner,
and each accompanied bv two smaller
brushes for cleaning the scalp Some OF 'em
are such iussors they won't even look In nv
hand glass. you see, and bring their own"
she added pointing to the ceiluloid mirrors
tied up with some of the brushes.
How much does it cost to keep the hair in
nice order for year -
oh, not more than $50 or $40, but great
many ladies come in to have their hair
dressed two or three times a week, YOU
know, and then they spond 500. or perhaps
more, in one year. i charge fifty cents for
clipping bang and 81 for shampoo"
a VERY LIVELY PLACE.
A bright faced girl came tripping in TO
have her hair dressed preparatory to being
photographed In tyTinkling a big white
apron was tied around her neck over the
directoire dress Of duh green, and heavy
mass of hair Of Titiar's color fell below her
waist.
You don't mean to say that you want
that hair dressed just as it isi"
Certainly; why notr"
1T isn't Git to dress, all dirt like that, and
so oily it sticks tcgatler. Most any woman
who had hair heavy ind long like that would
know enough TO appr ecinte it.n
"Oh, | hate the color Of it so, never cared
to fuss with it. Red hair and white horses
she said with little -rirnace.
Yes, but that hair is stylish, you know,
now. Why, it is considered the greatest
beauty in some countries" and before the
girl really bad time to object one of the soft
voiced. soft handed ssistants was scrubbing
some kind Of n lotion in q silver cup on to her
scalp with q sharp little brush, and tho next
she knew all the rnass of hair was floating in
o marble bowl, with alternate streams of hot
and cold water playing upon it, all SO neatly
and skillfully accomplished that not a drop
Of moisture soiled the pretty gown. And
then leaning back il q rocking chair while
the attendant tossed the shining strands
above heater, she chatted away to her sis
ter in tho coulmunica i've strain a woman al
ways drifts into when her hairpins are out.
Now, If the express ion III this picture viii
only bo good. never have any expression
in q picture"
The busie1t hours Ia the woinan's barber
shop or hairlrcssing establishment are from
II until end from 20 O. Some OF the Lsdies
rush in from shopping expedition or ON
their way to an enter tainment in panic, to
have half an hours work done III ten minutes,
and others loaf about half the morning, chat
ting and luxuriating N the languid pleasures
of being fused over, just as they linger in the
Turkish baths There are old women and
young women and little children, women
with tiowirg tresseS ind women the hairs Of
whose heads could be easily numbered by the
poorest kind of mat lematician, women who
want their hair bet ched to hide the gray
hair, and women who want it dyed, some to
please their husbands and others who wouldn't
have their husbands know it for the world;
and the way they all tsed to have lovely hair,
and the interest they each manifest In the cut
and curl of their own particular bang, and
the bright, sparkling chatter and repartee OF
the manager make tho womaris barber shop
a very lively Kind of place. Yorx
Sun.
$500 fsward.