The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-12

o tnat KIM. Mr. COnKllnS was quiet
and dignified-like, but not proud or
stuck up. Oh, no."
did you ever shave Mr. Russell
Harrison?"
what, the ex-president's son? No,
indeed. But friend Of mine on Four
teenth street, across from Foundry
church near G street, used to do his
work for him when he was in town.
He says that Russell Harrison was u
fine gentleman. You see he has a stiff
beard, and it amt an easy kind of u
face to shave, but he's always quiet
and takes time. There are so many
gentlemen who come here in q hurry
and if a barber happens to scrape
them they get mad. Now, Mr.. Rus
sell Harrison is one of the hurry men,
and always wants to get away as
quick as he can, but he never hurries
the barber. He don't require much
combin' and brushin, for he is Almost
oald-headed. There's only a thin hair
on the edges of his head. 1 think he
likes to have his head rubbed, though
rubbed real hard"
From the garrulous professor"
learned considerable about the faces
Oh statesmen. Lewis. the barber, said
ne had often heard house BARRIERS say
what soft snap big Tom Reed is. for
MS lace has such a light growth of
beard that it is like strapping a razor
10 put it on his face Mr.. Reed re-
allzes that the knight of the blade has
an easy conquest of his vast facial
territory, so he seldom gives him a
UP IN addition to the simple fee
winch he earns. Next to Reed, Col
Dave Henderson, of Iowa, has greater
surface of face than any man in the
mousse His facial area is not less than
eleven by nine, but it is largely ex-
pansive beyond that measurement
When the colonel smiles, which he
often does. However, the barber does
not shave the smile. although he al
ways smiles to shave Henderson, for
ne: 100. is an easy one. His skin is
sort and pliable as an infants, as
Reed's Is. and there are no easier men
IN congress to barberize than the two
big worthless mentioned
Inc slight hirsute subterfuges for
beard, called imperiaIs, annoy the bar
Der little. He would rather sweep
Clear across the cheerful expanse of
expression, and sail right on through
the sea OF lather, than to pilot around
the edges of these 'Charybdian groWths
1ney say that popular Joe Cannon"
OF Illinois, who shaVes only his upper
up has a growth Of bristly hair on
MS tender face which would turn tba
edge of a Damascus blade of The
strongest temper. That is the reason
ne only permits his mustache to be
taken off. To shave his entire face
would be diurnal torture which no man
could endure and attend to statesman
snip business, much less look after all
I Tile appropriation bills. Little Lord
Eauntleroy" surnamed Washington of
Tennessee, is an easy man to- hands
III the chair, for his face is not a
large one, and his hair is pIiable even
WITHOUT lather, although, of course. he
Sets the creamy mixture as a MATES.
VI form; Besides, they say he is a
perennial wit and jokes with the housa
b Ia pel ABOUT MS work and insists upon
having the sharpest razor in the shon
with strong handle" to pull off his
Whiskers with. F-- oiI MS
SENATOR Billy Mason, of Chicago. is
serious when under the razor n is
the only time when he is known to he
qulet. they say he has an almost sun
erstltlous dread of a barber-shop. and
when ne goes into the chair he never
upGns ms head, nor says anything
whtch h nilgnt excite or annoy the artist
no peautliles him. He pursues q safe
course for one of his spontaneous
Iokes, II hurled Unexpectedly at the
paFoeT, might produce disaster. They
Iay tHaI 1t is pleasure to comb and
% prush B1lly's glossy black hair. for
IL makes the prettiest kind of rinelets
as the comb passes through it. Senator
quay OF pennsylvania, likes to have
IL i,is neau RUBBED. To him that is the
rupped before combing. Senator Davis
oi minnesota, likes to go to sIeen in tbo
Ghdlr ana dream out international nrob
1eihS Wnlle the barber works over hin,
ne artlsts in the senate shops are dig
hined. They do not betray the 'secrets
VI lhe Iog-panks, even in the matter of
PERSONA p stoaa haoits. But it is learned, as
d ar. state secret that Senator Davis. of
Minnesota, and Senator Lindsay ~
Kentucky, are the most leisureIx ,,e AZ
VINO enter the shop. Each one spends
from half an hour to an hour in the
pain, and they like to have the barber
take plenty of time in shaving Thorn
and dressing their hair.
II Is meatter of public history that
When Mr.. Reagan, of Texas. was a.
MEMBER OF the house he nearly lost his
kors Oh tne Interstate commerce bill
py remaining too long in the bath-tub
He is hard of hearing, and the house
employees had difficult time oft get
ing MIN out of the water and into the
mouse in time to ansyer to his name
on the second roll call.
Ex-senator Ingalls, has so noanv
wrinkles on his face that only skill
Iul barber can shave him without whit
ting off a portion of his countenance
DdrD6r
clip off portion of his face once, and
there came forth not only blood but a
large stream of oratory with cussed-
ness in it; but this is not a we'll au-
thenticated story. ingalls, had but lit
tie swear in his vocabulary. and does
not waste it on BARRIERS.
The late congressman from Texas
whose autobiography in the congress
slonal directory stated that he was
the only native Texan ever elected to
congress" Hon. Thomas Porterhouse
Ochiltree used to worry the BARRIERS in
the house, although he had an easy
face to shave. One of his eyes had a
peculiar Ben-Butlerish habit of going
Off on its own account, roaming all
over every visual angle in the room.
and there was an iridescence in if
betokening birthstone and things
which startled the razor-wielder. Every
colored man in the house shops was
afraid of Tom, who is, by the way. the
best-natured man ever written into
fame. When Lewis, the barber COM
menced to tell about the man who
shaves President Mckinley, I barred
that story, for it was pure fiction. The
man who shaves Mr.. Mckinley, never
told anything about it to any one, for
Mr.. Mckinley shaves himself; and he
always does it well, too.
Smith D. Fry.