The evening times., 1896-07-13
JOHN cH|NAMAN's BARBER
MOy Lee Opens a TonsOrial
ParlOr in This City.
SUCH PLACE WAS NEEDED
Natives of the FIowery Kingdom Can
not Shave Their Own Heads and
They Object to Foreigners Per-
forming This Operation-Moy VIII
Visit from Laundry to Laundry.

This city has Chinese barber shop. 1t
is rBe latest addition 10 washington's
Chinatown. The name of the Celestial
tonsorial artist is Moy Lee, and lie IS a
dapper little fellow, who struts about his
shop proudly attired in skybiue pea
jacket and flowing neither garments OF
rather loud pattern. Moy came here from
Chicago several days ago and opened his
unique Us well as Oriental establishment in
a rear room of building on Four-and-a-
half street.
Prior to his coming a real necessity ex-
listed for such an institution. as Cinnamon
viii not patronize either white Ir black
barber shop. Therefore, each laundryman
had to depend on friends or neighbors of his
own race to shave his queued pate, IL being
physical impossibility for Il person to
shave the top of his own head.
j Ohm has particular aversion to COL
oreL BARRIERS, and would not enter one
OF their shops under any circumstance,
much less submit to the head-shaying
process at their hands. A Chinese inter
prefer Informed a representative of The
Evening Times that his countrymen in
America are fearful that should they enter
the establishment of the colored tonso-
rial worker, they will be quickly decap-
tated or suffer other horrible injuries at
the hands of the dark-skinned razor wield
ers. Hence it can be seen what bcon to
Climate was the coming of Moy with
his queer kit OF instruments
DIFFERENT FROM OUR BARRIERS.
In essential particulars the American
anu Chinese BARRIERS differ. Their mode OF
living and system Of workmanship bear
no relation to each other whatever, while
their social standing is widely divergent.
The Chinese barber is regarded by his
countrymen as professional man OF high
standing, while the American barber is
rateI as only an artisan.
The Chinama considers it an act of i'll
breeding and discourtesy to speak, much
less gossip, while shaving the head of a
patron, nor will he countenance any in-
terruption OF his work. He will not talk
himself and will not permit anybody else
to talk while under his treatment
Moy, in common with the few other Chi
nese BARRIERS in this country, was required
TO undergo tutelage of three years hefore
lie could graduate A first-class Chi
nese barber shop is known us a poi" and
it Is considered great honor to have been
graduated from such an institution, which
is looked upon in the 81 Inc light that Ameri-
cans regard a law school or medical college,
Chinese BARRIERS cannot cut hair. The rea-
son Of this is, perhaps, because good
Chinaman never cuts his queue.
Much of Moy'S business will be done Is an
itinerant. That is, he will ply his vocation
hy going about from one laundry to another
homes Of his patrons. This is rendered
necessary. owing to the fact that Chinese
wash shops are widely scattered over large
territory.
WILL NOT SHAVE FOREIGNERS.
His visiting kit consists of n queer-icok-
ing bamboo box. which contains his sazors,
clipper and peculiar smelling oil for anoint-
ing the head after shaving. This liquid is