The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-05
BARRIERS DON'T LIKE THEM.
DISCUS ed With Men Who Learned the
business Too Easily.
From tho Jol,;Ia5alpbia Times

From the Philadelphia Times.
Ii has been said that a barber has no
opinions Of his own, but simply reflects
those of the customer with whom for
the time being he talks about the
weather or politics He agrees with
every man. Say that politics are rotten
To the core and the barber will give ex-
amples without number to support you.
Say that after all the people that say
the worst things about politicians know
the least and that things are not SO bad
as they are painted and you VIII be met
with another set of examples, The same
way about the weather. 1t VIII be
warmer tomorrow; it will be colder to-
morrow: il looks like rain: ii won't rain
for a week-ail are agreed TO. Some
people have gone SO far as to say that
the barber has no private life, that his
mind is blank once away from the
chair
Let anyone who holds to this doctrine
ask the man who is shaving or sham
pooling him with quickness and care and
at the same time keeping UP an I'M
equaled flow of pleasant conversation
whether he has ever heard Of the col
lege barber" In a moment the ready
made conversation will cease and you
will get choice series of lurid adjee-
tives directed at this same parsonage
The college barber Is running the
trade" "the college barber should be
boycotted, and other sentences will fol-
low each other with lightning rapidity
and the barber will stand forth for the
first time as a man with opinions of his
own.
The college barber who has brought
upon himself the odium of the great
mass of journeyman BARRIERS Is not
graduate OF a university, who has taken
To the gentle use Of lather and razor as
a means of support, nor is he a barber
10, ty,.e taIt of
No more is he a poor student, who
makes his way through college by shay
ing his more fortunate classmates. He
is simply a graduate of BARRIERS coll
lege." a little known institution which
was 10 be seen about six months ago
in this city at 923 Arch street and known
as the Philadelphia Barber college, but
which has since failed and disappeared.
New York has secured the one which
used TO flourish here and the institution
IS still pouring out graduates in shay
| ing and hair cutting upon an unkemp.
world.
For $25 in eight weeks the BARRIERS
college will turn an inexperienced lad.
wholly lacking in conversational pow
ers, into fifst-rate barber skilled in
shaving, plain hair cutting and sham
pooling, and with a first-class flow of
talk" on subjects of the day. That Is.
the prospectus of such a college alleges
that the above viii be true. The barber
| himself, however, will tell you that
these institutions have in late years al
most ruined the trade, the lucrative
travelling salesman's custom in partic-
ular. and has increased the use of safety
fazors by percentage on 2 oQnsefNa-
tive estimate, of 200 per cent.
What can anyone learn about the
trade in eight weeks?" said one indig-
nant barber. They can scrape aud
that's all. It's driving people to safe
ties and BARRIERS to drink. 1t has hurt
Us most of all with 'drHmmers. The
American travelling salesman used to be
the best customer we had. lie always
kept natty. He used 10 get shaved twice
day and always tipped well. Now
what has happened? The drummer has
met With these graduates from a bar
berS college, has gotten 'Scraped in
stead of being shaved, and now is so
afraid of the shops that he carries his
razor with him. 1t is safe To say that
the travelling trade, as we call il. isn't
one-half as good as IL used TO be. Make
barber in eight weeks' Why. I've been
at il seven years and don't know the
business yet"
Although the BARRIERS college is gone
as far as Philadelphia is concerned this
Is how the course was run, according
to a barber who was graduated from il.
First two weeks, stropping razors.
hnning raZcrst method Of holding the
same; practice in moving heads 10
proper positions for shaving and hair
cutting, lathefing.
Third and fourth weeks. review; use
of scissors in clipping the back hair Use
Of hot and cold water towels OH shaved
faces: use of hay rum. hair teStorer and
sea foam. including shampaolng, use Of
towel as fan.
Fifth and sixth weeks, shaving begun
on hard faces. the customers ttramps1
BEING furnished by the college. down