The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-09

G S and s1SrsSd most sg:sicis%sy at
We're you affecting around me. misterF
he ssksd. looking savage; ,., .v,.,.
:, oh, that's all right. saws the hayseed with
10 VERY tricks. SO don't you YOU come no games on
me. I'm detective. l want you to under.
Very we'll then. Mr. Detective says the
barber. Just you lay back and let me finish
No, you don't neither, says the yokel with
an eye on the razor which the barber held
above him waiting for chance to go on with
the shave. You want to get me down again
this time OF night aln't for no good purpose.
neckon, so I'm a-going to my hotel
face and Ioited out The door with one q lie OF
his mug clean and the, other full of stubsle.
Another time, q nicely dressed stranger
awe him a shave, He didn 4 tell US, but It was
plain to be seen he was mapy sheets, in The
than he went Of into asound sleep, As his
hair was a trfe long. after shaving him the
b barber at his chair &C. concluded to trim it. un
parently man Of wealth and wouldn't make
much OF kick about expense. he gave him
nice litts things calculated To make a man feel
s 5e and pa IN share to b6s
the barber woke the nice look Ing lax.
Cut my hair, barher. said the Jag drows-
ilv. and closed his ewes again.
:, I've cut it. sir says the barber go,
Give me SHAMPOO says the lag. still
more drowsily.
You've got that too says the barber. .
Any hot towels ready went on The sleepy
:" You've already had ak SIR says the bar.
well. put mo through the whole darn bust.
ni1ed lag. shufling Off to sleep again. and re-
fusing 70 wake up till long after breakfas
time, when he raid the double bill without a
There are few. customers, who come in
them are men who want their hair dyed and
nothing else. There is no man in tho world
who dyes his hair who is, not sensitive about
it and anxious to conceal the fact from even
his closest friends. az well as tho general pub
lie. That is one reason why they come here
verified into brown or black They do not ike
to 20 into barber shop In the daytime when
there is lot of wideawake people, sitting
around to look on and betrav them, but late
at night they know there will be few custom
ers here, in such condition as to know or OBJ
they themselves are directly concerned Dye
ing in these days is more common than you
according to their own words. 1t Is absolutely
necessary. for they are mon getting along in
years. and there IS a prejudice against en-
hair-dve customers who will come here and
sit around for hours waiting for every other
custc mer TO leave the shor before he VIII nave
the work performed. told me that man with
white. or even slightly iron gray hair. had a
hard time to find work nowadays, because en-
ployers plal nls said to all arhlcants that such
evidence OF advancing age disqualified them
In their minds
What are your busiest hours" the visitor
asked.
Between l and 3 o'clock" replied the bar
Der. Thai ia the time most Of the concert
halls and Raines law hotels are getting rid Of
their iaas. After that our customers drop in
at very intreIuent intervals. and until about
half past or ) o'clock there is very little for
the BARRIERS to do around here except wake
up.the ssleeners and get them started on the
homeward path. Between half rast and .
TO work at very early hours drop in here in
some force. and the BARRIERS are busy again.
80 that the business done nv this all. night Joint
is equal to that of the shop which stays open
only so many hours day. according TO the
union scale"