Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-10-02
HAIR FADS OF BIG MEN.
, FANCIES OF STATESMEN AS TO
THEIR LOCKS AND Boards.
Who Trim the Hyperian Locks OF
the Lawgivers.


there are sure to be some legislators
for the Nation in Washington even
during the dog days, and employees of
the House require shaving between
sessions. The Senate tonsorial parlor
is more exclusive, and hirelings of that
august body are not admitted to its
precincts. For them special chair
and colored servitor are provided in
the basement.
Three colored BARRIERS manipulate
razor and scissors in the Senate shop,
along the sides of which are four bath
rooms. In one of these is box just
big enough for the fattest possible
Senator to get into 1t is closed upon
him, so that only his head appears,
poked out through the top. Steam,
generated by alcohol lamps beneath,
is turned on and fills the wooden
chamber. 1t is luxury a la Russo.
The Senator, if he chooses, takes
hold of steel bar inside the box, his
feet resting on metal pan below. A
current of electricity is then turned
on, reviving the system exhausted by
Legislative toll There are two batter
les, OuG blIOuRtI lhuH but obhcIs II
desired their strength can be combined,
but no member of the upper house has
thus far been disposed to try such a
powerful dose. Rheumatic Senators
utilize this electricity for the treat
ment of their trouble.
While undergoing the steam1ng pro-
cess the Senator can cleanse himself by
means of little hose and sprinkler,
regulating the temperature of the
water as he likes. On emerging from
the box he is subjected to massage
treatment by an expert operator, after
which he goes to sleep on wicker
sofa. All the modern bathing appli-
ances are here at hand, including in
genious shower baths which spray the
person from head to foot by n multi
tude of Jets, marble tubs lined with
porcelain, and n room with dry heat,
which can be run up to 200 degrees
Fahrenheit.
All these Injuries Senators get free
of charge. They pay nothing for bath,
shave, or hair cut, unless, perhaps, by
way of gratuity. The BARRIERS are en-
ployed by the Government as "skilled
laborers" at 5000 year each. They
supply their own brushes, combs, and
razors. The "tonic," hair oil, bay
rum, etc, which they use are drawn
from the general supply room. OF
course, the services of three tonsorial
artists are not required during receses
of Congress, but at such periods their
vacant time is devoted to whatever
work may be assigned to them in the
Senate wing.
The barber shops attached to the
House of Representatives are compare
lively shabby. They would not be q
credit to n fourth-rate village. There
is one on the Republican and another
on the Democratic side. They arej just
alike, but there are three chairs in the
Democratic shop and only two in the
Republican shop. The case was ex-
actly the reverse when Mr.. Reed occu-
pied the Speakers chair and there was
Republican majority. Every mem
Der and employe pays for his shave or
hair cut at the usual rates. The bar
bers are hired as common laborers ut
$50 o month.
Twenty-Five years ago q laborer en-
ployed by the House asked leave to
put i'll tonsorial chair. Consent was
granted, and from that beginning the
shops have grown. Between sessions
, the arbers, who are all colored, clean
. committee rooms, etc. One of them
:, is skilled chiropodist and attends tc
8 the feet of Representatives who are
!, afflicted with corns and bunions. The
, latter do not have to pay anything fol
baths. Beneath the House there are
superb bath rooms with huge marble
p tubs and hot chambers. The at
p tendants are expert at massage.
The testimony of the BARRIERS is tc
, the effect that about forty members o
. the House during the last Congress
i. used oil on their hair. Among 33(
odd Representatives, Lynch, of Wis
consin, has the most hair. In that re
, spect he has rival in Smith, o
Illinois, whose dark locks with not
:, gray thread in them hang to hi
!, shoulders.
y Ex-Speaker Reed has the baldes
y head. General Wheeler, though
small man from Alabama, has the big
. gest beard, mixed with gray Tarsney
7 of Missouri, possesses the largest
y mustache, and Hopkins, of Illinois
I has the reddest hair.
= In the Senate PETER, of Kansas, ha,
by far the most luxuriant beard II,
> wears no necktie because he has sucl
whiskers. Blackburn, of Kentucky
has the biggest mustache. Once upoi
:, time it was dark brown, but now i
:. is gray. Brice, the Ohio man, ha
p the greatest quantity of hair, dark rec
. in color. Baldest of all the Senators
is Gallinger, of New Hampshire.
In the last century, during the earl,
years of Congress, not few mem ber
= of the National Legislature had thei
i. hair done up in pigtails. Others wor,
Y their locks very long and elaborated,
i curled. Others powdered their tresse
n SO profusely as to conceal their natura
n shade. SO short time as fifty year
o ago no gentleman was unshaven. II,
x,.oo, opx, hair np tho fona 4bn,, ,,.o,,l