Omaha daily bee., 1889-11-03

gle, can be bought for from 5 to 10 cents.
The strop, made of cotton or leather,
costs about a nickel, and his brass ba-
sin is less than a dollar He has two
little stools painted red, without backs,
upon which his customers sit bolt up
right while they are being shaved.
These stools have drawers below them
in which his shaving utensils are car
ried, and he goes with them hanging to
the ends of a pole, balanced over his
shoulders, from place to place, an
nouncing 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
SLAVES 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 rainbow.
The heads of Chinese babies are often
shaved, and, in Japan. you can tell a
baby's age by its hair. The fuzz is
shaved from the scalp of the Japanese
infant as soon as it is born: when it
grows to the age of u certain number OF
months a ring of hair is allowed to re-
main surrounding the bald oasis of the
crown. A few months later little tuft
is blocked out in the center of the 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 the head makes the
hair very stiff, and the Japanese has his
head covered with stiff, black wires.
He looks as if his head were one gigaE-
tic cowlicb, and he has this crop to the
length of about one inch. The old
fashion of shaving 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 back
counties, and in those who pride them
selves on belonging to the old regime.
Black or dark Brown il the common
color OF the hair of the east. A white
haired Jap or n yellow-haired Chinese
would get into the dime museums, and
both nations look upon red as the color
of the head of the devil. There is a
tradition in Japan that the man who
drinks too much saki, or Japanese
brandy, acquires IA redness OF hair, and
] found that
MY RED HEAD CAUSED MUCH LAUGH
TER.
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girls would nudge each other and whis-
per "saki, saki, )" as they walked behind
me, and now and then Japanese hood
lum would point to my head and reel
along as though he were drunk. The
common appellation for the foreigner
in Japan and China is 'Red-headed,
blue-eyed, Foreign Devil" aud as |
fitted into this description | was, |
doubt not, the scare-crow of the chill
dren OF mt 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
in the perfumed oil made from the seed
OF the camelia. She has them dressed
by professional hair-dresser, at the
eXtravagant cost of 20 cents 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 Mt all particular as to whether
her dress is decollette or not during the
operation. When ii is done she has
her face powdered and enameled, her
eyebrows are painted, and she
has as sweet smile rs can be
shown by her sex in any country
OF the world. The most of her beauty,
however, disappears with maidenhood.
When she is married she shayes oil