The western sentinel., 1897-09-09
The Woman Barber In New York.

A neatly dressed brunette is one of
the assistants of little German barber
who has a store stones throw from
the Grand Central station. The girl
barber is about 20 years old, entirely
self possessed, and AN expert with either
the shears or the razor. There is scarce
ly an interval during the day when
people looking in through the open door
of the barber shop may not see the
young woman shaving man or dress
ing his hair.
Are you doing this for an advertise
ment!" customer asked of the propri-
etOr.
mo" +" said the little German, "but
1 find that the gentlemen like to have
the young lady shave them. You can
see that she is an adept. But that isn't
the point. She never speaks unless she's
spoken to, which L find is a great point
IN her favor. find that customers like
to shut their eyes and doze or go off into
reverie when in the barber chair, and
that they don't want to be pestered
with questions about politics or the
weather or anything. They just want
to be shaved. That is the secret of my
lady assistants success. She just shaves
and says nothing
And you don't save money or wages
by employing her?" was asked
Why. certainly not,'' replied the
German barber in apparent surprise.
i pay her the regular union wages,
20 day. She is just as good work
man as man. Why shouldn't pay her
the same:''
The barber said that he was going to
get another woman to attend to women
customers
There are lots of women who travel
on the trains who are as anxious az
male travellers to get their hair dressed
after long journey" he explained.
They can't 60 to regular barber shop
when they're in hurry, you know.
They would attract too much attention.
But they could and would go to shop
where there was a woman barber and
where they would enjoy the privacy of
a regular hairdresser. .
don't see anything peculiar about
my occupation, the woman barber
said. Il consider it just as suitable for
woman as for a man. I like to be
busy, and l like to dress hair and to
WELD the razor. I have read that the
BARRIERS union objects to admitting wo-
men to membership, but I can't stop
working because of that. I haven't
asked 20 be admitted to the union, and
as long as l get union wages don t see
why the union should object. If I
worked for less, then there might be
cause for complaint; but, you see,
don t. and that's all there is to it. 49,
New York Sun.
In his speech at the dedication In
Dallas of the monument to the Confed-
crate dead Judge Reagan said, "Presi-
dent Davis had the chivalric courage OF
Richard CGur de Lion and Cato's yir-
tue, constancy and love of liberty"
Henry NJ. Stanley and his wife recent
~ paid visit to Budapest, where the
explorer went to see Professor Vambery,
the famous orientalist. On their return
northward they visited Brussels, where
Stanley was to have conference with
King Leopold over the affairs of the
Kongo State.
Father Phiambolis, the Greek priest
Of Chicago whose zeal for Greece
brought him into public notice. was
born 90 years ago in Roumania and
has held charges in Bucharest and Ath-
ems. He came to Chicago in 1892,
bringing his wife, two sons and three
daughters with him. The oldest son.
aged Ss years, is a medical student