The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-12-11
FAMOUS LOCKS CLIPPED.
A Washington lsarker Whose Customer
Lar Alnan

A Washington lsarLrr Whose Customer
Have lsc n Great Men.
A Washington barber talked as his
scissors FLASHED about my ears.
II worked last year at the Normandie
Hotel, where Blaine and his family
were stopping" he began, land fire.
quen.iy had to cut the silvery locks of
the Secretary of State. Blaine had his
hair cut about every two weeks. lie
don't care very much as to its looks
himself, but his family watch to see
that every hair is laid even. / cut his
hair in his own rooms. and. as the scis-
sors shipped away, Mrs. Blaine and
James &. Blaine, Jr., stood by
and gave :rections Blaine him.
self paid little attention to tho
again. He did not talk at all. and he is
far different from some other men l
have dealt with. Now, there is Ban
croft have cut his hair many a time.
lie likes his hair long, and he talks
while it is being trimmed. kept Vice.
President Hendricks in order when he
WAS alive, shaved him every morning
and cut his hair once month. / have
cut Joe McDonald's hair, but he is not
very particular. shaved Abe Lincoln
when he came here to be inaugnrated.
lie was a very pleasant talker. / used
TO shave Andrew johnson sometimes,
too, and one OF the queerest fellows l
ever barbered was old sam Houston.
Houston always shaved himself. lie was
too nervous to allow any one else to put
razor to his face remember once came
within an ace of clipping his ear. and
| he hoped from the chair, grabbed me
by the hand and thought he was GO
ing 10 kill me. Then he quietcd down
| and asked me to be more careful and
took his seat again in the chair. You
bet was careful too. for Houston was
not a man to trlfle with. lie was one
Of the lueerest dressed men you ever
| saw. Ills coat was one of those steel
pen affairs with brass buttons, he had
flaming red waist-coat, red vest, one of
the old-fashioned high-stock neckties
and buff pants. lie wore a hat as big
as an umbrella, and in the winter he
wore a fancy Indian blanket instead of
an oyercoat lie had good head of
hair. which l attributed largely to his
outdoor life.
Yes" continued the barber, as he
shipped away, Il have shingied the
head Of many a great man. But do you
know the biggest men Of the country
are losing their hair, and believe the
day will come when all brainy men will
be bald. Speaker Reed hasn't even fuzz
on the top of his head. The skin is as
bald as my baby's cheek, and it shines
as though it was creased. / once cut.
the twenty odd locks which run around
Edmunds' bare drum head. You have
never seen any thing SO pretty as his
skin. II Is as tender and as clear as
that OF the finest fair-complcxioned girl
you have ever seen, and it looks as
though the blooi would squirt through
it If you touched it with pin. lie
| never lets any oil be put upon his hair,
| but he likes to have his scalp polished
| with cologne. Breckinridge, of Ken
| lucky. has one of the finest heads of
| hair | have ever seen, and he is a
mighty nice man, too. He gives me a
quarter every time barber him, and
he talks all the time he is being
| trimmed. Washington Cor. n. Y.
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