The herald., 1897-12-29
SHE is A BARBER
A LOS ANGELES WOMAN AT
WORK IN DENVER
She Supports Family and Builds Up
Good Trade-How She Began
Business

A woman barber is enough of an inno-
walton in Denver to attract more than
passing attention. At least Mrs. c. A.
Hines finds it so. Mrs. Hines has adopted
the trade as a means of livelihood and
considers that a large portion of her
patronage is due to the fact that men are
fond of novelties.
Mrs Hines conducts barber shop in
a small apartment on fremont street,
opposite the court house. The locality
she considers a good one as the court
house people are literally inclined tow
ard her. Wives and sweethearts, how
ever. who now hear of this woman bar
Der for the first time, need not feel
alarmed, for Mrs. Hines has passed the
heyday of youth. She does not blondine
her hair and is not of stylish appear
ance.
II adopted this trade" said Mrs. Hines
this morning, "to keep my HUSBAND, my
self and my baby from the poor house. "
She said that for some time before his
death. which occurred five years ago,
her husband had been unable to support
her. Prior to that time she had, while
watching an uncle shave, become i'm
pressed with the idea that shaving was
really work for woman's fingers. She
later had the opportunity to learn the
trade and at the same time be paid "a
a week. The opportunity was god
send at the time. for her husbands i'll
ness was rapidly growing serious.
1t was in Los Angeles, Cal, that they
lived then. Thinking to do better east
she removed to Illinois, but" she said.
II liked neither the people there nor the
climate The people were too conserva-
tive and the climate did not agree with
u.s."
They then came to Colorado. At Ly-
ons for a time Mrs. Hines operated a
laundry, but 1t was not as paying a
proposition as the barber business. Mrs.
Hines has lived in Boulder and Lafay-
cite since her husbands death. The
baby also died just five years ago this
winter. For four years she stayed in
Lafayette, but the place is small and a
woman barber has the prejudice of many
people to fight against. So now she is
in Denver and for nearly month in the
| little bare-looking shop on fremont
street mas DeeH SLOWLY DuL Stedully
progressing toward what would event
ually be a lucrative business. But she
is not to be allowed to stay there. In the
rear of the little building, on one window
of which are the words in blue and white
letters: Lady Barbar," Is policy shop
separated from Mrs. Hines apartment
by a calico curtain. She rents directly
of the managers of this gambling estab-
llishment, but the owner of the building
| has concluded that woman barber
does not give sufficient tone to her prop
erty. Then, too, man running bar
Der sop next door has complained thai
his business has been seriously injured
by his recent competitor. So, when thu
month is out, Mrs. Hines will have tt
move. She is not discouraged, how
ever, and thinks that eventually she viii
be able to do very well indeed.
you see," she explained, men like
the more delicate touch of a woman!
| fingers and then l think 1 have more
taste in hair cutting, as always study
the shape of my patrons head, and there
| is the novelty of it, which also pleases.
Denver Post.