The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-03
IN THEBARBER CHAIR
How They Shave and Shampoo
in ASia's BackwOOdS.
THE SHAVED PRIESTS OF BURMAH
The Short-Halred Girls of Slam-Thc Indian
ShdmpOoer - The American Bar
bers Best in the World.

FcSD0l1enCe OF HE HERALD. me great
est shayors in the world are the Chinese.
Every week at least one hundred million
ainond-cyed faces must be cleaned by the
razor, and every ten days the hair is
scraped from the scalps surrounding at
least that number Of loBg, black Chinese
pig-tai!s. The BARRIERS constitute one Of
the most important parts Of the Chinese
population. They have their guilds and
their trades unions, and, some years ago,
they brought
TIE EMPEROR HIMSELF TO HIS KNEES.
There was an edict in force that classed the
BARRIERS with the lowest ranks of the
Chinese people, and that prohibited them
from entering the competitive examinations
for official rank. The BARRIERS struck and
demanded that this be rescinded. For
several weeks the whole Chinese nation
went unshayed The black hair sprouted
out to the length and stiffness of the
bristles Of the Berkshire hog, and wall
of anguish rose from the threats of millions
Of Chinese men. Public opinion has its
weight in China as in America, and the
Emperor came to terms. Now a BARRIERS
son may become Viceroy of China, and it is
not an impossibility that barber himself
should aspire to be minister to the United
States.
The Chinese pig tail is badge of servi-
tude A little more than three hundred
years ago the Chinese prided themselves
on their long, black hair, which covered the
whole of their heads. When they were
conquered by the Manchus, who rushed in
upon them from the north, their conquerors
made them shave their heads
AS SIGN OF SUBMISSION.
Shaved heads became the fashion, and,
now, even the Manchus themselves wear
bald scalps. The Chinaman has become
proud of his pig-tail. He braids false hair
INTO 1T 10 make 1t longer, and pieces it out
with black silk thread. He oils it until it
shines liks polished Jet, and he lets this
greasy, black snake hang down upon and
soil the most delicate of yellow and sky
blue silk gowns. He has his hair restorer
Just as has the American dude, and it may
De Of advantage to some OF bald-headed
'acn to know tuat Il fat rat diet is supposed,
IN China, to be conducive of hair growing.
lasHed my Chinese servant, while travel
ing through to Picking as to the prices of
shaving. He told me that in the interior
you could get shave for a cent, and that
prices rose according to the wealth of the
customer. 'Mandarins'" said he often
have BARRIERS connected with their yamenS
and the swell Chinaman is shaved in his
own residence. Ninety-nine hundreths of
the shaving, is, however, done on the street,
and the barber'S whole outfit costs less
than So. His razor, which is in the shape
Of triangle, can be bought for from five
70 ten cents. The StrOp, made of cotton or
leather, cost about a nickle, and his brass
basin Is less than dollar He has
Two LITTLE STOOLS PAINTED RED,
without backs, upon which his customers
sit bolt upright, while they are being
shaved. These stools have drawers below
them in which his shaving utensils are
carried, and he goes with them hanging to
the ends Of pole, balanced over his
shoulder, from place to place, announcing
his presence by an immense tuning fork
about ten inches long, which he pounds
against the stools from time to time. He
uses no soap, and often shayeS with cold
water. Chinese women usually dress their
own hair. They paint their faces and
blacken their eyebrows, pulling out the
hairs in order to make the arch like that of
a rainbow.
The heads of Chinese babies are often
shaved, and, in Japan, you can tell ba0ys
age Dy its hair The fuzz is shaved from
the scalp of the Japanese infant as soon
rs it is born; when 1t grows to the age of
a certain number of months ring of hair
is allowed to remain surrounding the bald
oasis OF the crown. \ few months later a
little tuft is blocked out in the center of
this oasis, and palm tree like wisp grows
upon it. Then other little wisps are allowed
to come down under the ear, and, at last,
the hair Is grown all over the head.
THIS SHAVING OF TIE HEAD
ma5es the hair very stiff, and the Japanese
has his head covered with stiff, black wires.
He looks as if his head were one gigantic
nvuli Dlr md bn hac IN no lprc 9th
OF about inch. The old fashion of shay
ing a strip from forehead to crown, and of
wearing the hair long, and doing it up on
the edge of this bald strip in the shape of
an old fashioned door knocker, is being
done away with in The cities, and you find
it only in the back counties, and in those
who pride themselves on belonging to the
old regime
Black or dark brown is the common color
of the hair of the east. A white-haired
Jap or yellow-haired Chiness would get
into the dime museums, and both nations
look upon red as the color of the head OF
the devil. There is q tradition in Japan
that the man who drinks TOO much salIi, or
japanese brandy. acquires a redRess of
hair, and l found that my red head caused
much laughter as 1 Travelled through the
country.
TIE GIRLS Would NUDGE EACH OTHER
ana Whisper 'Sdhl, Sdhi, as IuCy walked !
behind me. and now and then a Japanese !
hoodlum would point to my head and reel |
along as though he were drunk. The COM
mon appellation for the foreigner in Japan
and China is red headed, blue-eyed,
foreign devil" and as fitted into this des-
oription was l doubt not, the scare crow
of the children of at least two nations.
The japanese girls are wonderfully
beautiful, and their hair would make that
of Washington belle turn green with
envy. Yum Yum soaks her locks III the
perfumed oil made from the seed of the
camelia. She has them dressed by pro
fessional hair dresser, at the extravagant
cost of 20 cents q time, and she does this in
her pretty little house, open at the street,
so that the passer-by can, If he will, inspect
the whole operation She is very modest
but she is not at all particular as to whether
her dress is dcCOUste or not during the oper-
alton When it is done, she has her face
powdered and enameled, her eye brows
are painted, and she has the sweetest
smile that can be shown by her sex in any
beauty, however,
DISAPPEARS WITH MAIDENHOoD.
When she is married she shaves off her
eye-b rows and blackens her teeth, and this
eyebrow shaving and teeth blackening is
one of the most disgusting of the old Gus
toms OF Japan. The Empress and the ladies
of the court are discouraging 1t, and its
days are probably numbered. 1t originated,
l am told, in the desire of the husband to
show that she cared nothing to make her
self attractive to others after she was
married, seeming to lose sight of the fact
that she might make herself disgusting
even to her husband. It is on the same
principle that widows shave their heads in