Omaha daily bee., 1889-11-03

grow as long as they will. They are
very superstitious as to the day for
washing the head. and they consider it
unlucky to wash the head on Mondays,
Fridays or Saturdays. They will not
cut their hair on Mondays or Fridays
nor on their birthdays, and, as the
birthday of the Burman comes once a
week, many of the people are restricted
| to four days for hair cutting. They
have many superstitlons in regard to
their hair, and this is the same in
China and Korea. 1t is legend in
China that no thick-haired man has
ever held the place now occupied by
| by Ii Hung Chang. The Chinaman
| thinks that the man with small head
| and long hair will die poor. and that
| the man whose hair turns white while
he is young will be haunted by bad
luck. A woman whose hair is glossy,
whose face is round and plump, may
| possibly become the wife of the en-
peror, and the man with long eye
| brows will live to be hundred.
l did not see any BARRIERS in Korea,
| and, as the people wear their hair long,
| there is probably no demand for them.
| The average Korean moustache is like
the old joke gotten off on that OF the
dudes: ut is like base ball game,
having nine hairs on each side, and one
in the middle for umpire" If the
Korean has any beard it is thin and
Struggling. and as u rule his whole
strength, like that of Samson, goes into
hair like the schoolgirls of America;
they part it in the middle and wear it
in long braids down their backs. They
are not considered men until they are
married, and it is at this time they
are permitted to wind up their hair
into knot on top of their head and put
it under their hats. One of the most in
significant and contemptible specimens
of man hood in the far east is Korean
boy of forty, with his hair parted in the
middle, trailing IN II braid below his
waist. He is kicked around rs though
he were six, because he has as yet got
no wife
TO MAKE A MAN OF HIM.
The Koreans save the combings OF
their hair, and the parings OF their
with them when they die.
In India everything runs by caste,
and the BARRIERS rank with the washer
men and blacksmiths. A barber's son
is always a barber, and barber's
daughter Is sure to marry barber.
The Indian barber, like the Chinaman,
travels from house to house to do his
shaving, He tcarries all his tools
under his arm, wrapped up IN CLOTH
when he shayes his customers, he makes
him squat down on his heels and bend
over his mead. He then squats down on
his own heels in front of him, and the
two, without chair or stool, do the busi-
ness in the most primitive manner. He
usually shayes with cold water, and he
is a manicure a5 we'll as n barber. No
HIndoo shaves himself, and few Hin
docs pare their own nails. The barber
is expected to take the gray hairs out
of your head. eyebrows and mustache,
and like his Chinese brother, he pays
attention TO cleaning the ears and to
shaving the face, even to the corners of
the eyes. A high-priced barber IN
India gets from Sl.25 To 50 II month per
family. An ordinary shave costs from l
to 2 cents. and q irst-class hair
cut is given for from cent to n nickel.
1t is quite customary in the east for the
families TO shave their heads when they
90 into mourning, and in Siam when II
king dies all the people in the country
are supposed to cut off their hair so
close that their pates are as clean as Il
billiard bali. The head of the corpse is
shaved in India, aud, while watching "a
body being cremated at Renares, saw
about half bushel of human hair lying
on the stone steps, not FAR irom the fire.