The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-04-15
A BARBER'S COLLEGE.


oh, that Juvenal would come back and
hear the boards OF the lodging house SUBJ
jects ''sounding' under the musical
razors OF the sweet girl students in Pro-
lessor Moler's new Manhattan Barber Col
iege, which usurps and transmogrifies the
whole OF the spacious second floor OF
the otherwise commonplace ONCE build
ing at 90 and 80 Hudson street, New
York.
When the college was visited yesterday
two queonly women were lathering the
faces OF two old men, whose iassitude
proclaimed that they had long since
given up struggling for the approval of
ao unappreciative world.
One of these girls was tall and blonde,
with Psyche face and bicycle knot at
the back OF her shapely head. she bent
over her old man and rubbed the soap
into his honely jowl with pan-electric
fingers. How long since had woman's
hand so caressed him?
The other lady barber was Junoesque.
Having smoothed wn her old man she
was taking her first lessen in ''shin-
Cling" newsboy. lie was as waA In her
maternal hngers. lie had come prepared
to jolly the "girl artists" but remained
To blubper as he thought OF home and
mother and the Sunday growler that used
TO rush in the brave days OF old.
LADY STUDENTS SCARCE.
Professor Moler, however, does not en-
courage the aspirations OF women to
shine In barberdom. Women are prone
to waste cologne and unguents upon
good-looking customers. They will cut
q mans face II he happens, inpocently
enough, perhaps, TO holler "Ratsv' They
will even entertain proposal OF marriage
from man who has no better claim to
their favor than a wiry beard.
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Professor Dloler has at the present time
four handsome lady students. Here they
are:
Miss Florence Rosecrans her mamma
runs barber shop in Brooklyn,a and Flor
ence Is preparing herself for the success
sion. She Is divinely tall and lair, and
when she bends over subject her face
runs very close ito his. Decidedly pleas
ant for the subject.
Miss Mamie Kelly; inclined to embon-
point, but handsome. Her superb black
hair is fortune in itself. She is pre-
pairing herself for place in Mrs. Rose
Grams esta ablishment.
Miss Addie Clark; petite but practical.
She Is an apt student, doubtless, destined
to the highest houors of her calling. Her
motto is no philandering!
Mrs. Wilson; matron who believes
that a woman should do all things better
than a man. She can already give most
ptthdSiinS iuSu sPatSos
SCOPE OF THE COLLEGE.
Professor Moler's term Is eight weeks
and his terms are S25. students may
live at the college. Subjects are obtained
by the extensive distribution of cards
containing the following announcement:
"Free hair cut and shave every day aud
evening at the Manhattan Barber College;
hours, nine to four; evening, seven to
nine"
The college has been open a week, but
there has never been any lack of subjects.
They come from the East side and the
West Side, from Brooklyn, Jersey City and
Canarsie, but most of them are fairly
transxfed with surprise and pleasure
when they see that it may be their privi-
lege to be shaved or clipped by woman.
Professor Moler has established similar
colleges In Chicago, st. Louis, Cincinnati
and Minneapolis, and 1t has long been
matter for sorrow TO him that New York
was destitute OF such an institution OF
learning.
Twenty-one pupils now struggle every
day with the boards and names of New
York's fiotssm.
No man with "jag" need apply.
Special inducements are held out to
"subjects" with erratic growths OF hair,
as such phenomena are of the greatest
value to students.