Connecticut western news., 1890-09-03
NEW IDEAS IN SHAVING.
me Dellghts of Being Shaved by a Le
 Handed Barber or a ''Team."

NEW IDEAS IN SHAVING.
 me Dellghts of Being Shaved by a Left
 Handed Barber a "Team."
 The man of leisure who thinks he mas exhausted the pleasures of life and sighs for more excitement should not Y;ve up entirely until he has been ghaved by left handed barber. This experience may not be entirely new, for most men have been shaved in some way, but while the tonsorial art is ancient the left handed application of it is novelty. IT, :, s.a.f
 There may be left handed barbers in, New York, for this big town has every thing that is worth having; but have never encountered one here, and have met but two elsewhere-one in Salida, Colo, and the other in St. Augustine, Fla. Both were excellent barbers. A man who has never been shaved by left handed barber and has never heard of one is interested on the first occasion when he sees him strop his razor. He thinks that this is only momentary variation for novelty's sake of the fhr miliar rhythmic stropping, and when he sees it continued he expects every moment to see the razor nick the strop; but it doesn't do it, q I
 When the artist turns and approaches with the razor still in his lift hand the man in the chair doesn't know what not to expect, but when the first touch gives assurance of practiced hand he realizes what it means and asks in mod flied surprise, "Are you left handedT The artist says, Yes, sir. and proceeds to shave him neatly and comfortably, but in the reverse order, beginning where the right handed man would leave off and finishing where he would begin. The left handed shave is throughout seasoned with the sense of something new, andit is an experience that makes the man in the chair feel somehow when he gets through that he has taken part in a joint achievement.
 Of course the man in search of nov city has been shaved on steamships and steamboats, and on the cars, per haps, but if he hasn't been let him take either of the great limited trains be- tween New York and Chicago and try that Or if he travels extensively he may in some small town be shaved by a woman, not in a ladies' barber shop like those that occasionally flourish for a time in the larger cities, but in a quiet and comfortable little shop and by the barber's wife, who, her husband being away, slaves the customer in neat and business like manner. If he has never had team shave then indeed has the man of leisure something worth living for.
 It seemed like piece of luck to find vacant chair in barber shop in a booming California town. The outfit of the shop was not costly, but it was sufficient, and the two barbers were cheerful and active Tho barber lath- cred my face and rubbed it gently. He put on more father, until wondered why he didn't go ahead and shave me. The customer in the next chair had a wiry beard, and it took long time to shave him. Meanwhile my barber painted my face up and down and crosswise and in diamonds and circles, and rubbed it in again.
 While this was going on three more customers came in. When the other barber had finished shaving the man in his chair he moved without 8 word to my chair, without dampening and dry ing the first customers face or combing his hair, and at once began shaving me. Then it was clear why the father ing had been prolonged. It was team work. It wouldn't look businesslike to father a man and then make him wait to be shaved, and so the lathering was kept up until the other barber was ready. While the shaving partner was stepping to my chair the painting mem Der of the firm was crossing to the other, and dropping the brush and taking a bowl and the bay rum bottle, he pro ceeded to complete the work on the first customer. ''Will you please sit up, sir9" and he dressed his hair, mak- ing good time, for he knew my beard was light and that the shaving barber would get through with me quickly,
 Before the barber had finished shaw ing me the painter had finished dress ing the first mans hair and had got an other man in his chair and had his face nicely lathered ready for the shaving barber to begin work on. Then they changed places with no perceptible loss of time, and when heard the bay rum ,,urgling over my head I knew that the bottle was in the hands of the painter.
 "Why do you work in this way9' ;lsked
 s'When we came to this town" was the reply, "we thought there was room Tor another barber shop. I couldn't shave, but I could do anything else, and so my partner does the shaving lnd do the rest"
 Thus they worked all day long, sur Irising many, pleasing all and making lnoney.-New York Sun.
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 In machine shops it is a frequent oc. currence that particles of metal pene trate in the skin and eyes. Messrs. O. ID %/