The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-01-12

! the preservation Of the fair sex" muir
INJURED the man. but the barber was rid
| Ing his hobby, and ignored interruption.
| Ihere,s fat old duffer; looks l,s@. a.
tadpole. I could make genial, digrdfed.
| elderly banker out of him, with hide
wGisksEE and a. mustache. The vicious
| looking, cadaverous chap with the pret-
| ty girl could be distinguished it he'd
cultivate an imperial. What the world
-needs.isea stage manager. The make-ups
are all wrong
The barber sighed sadly. 1t is hard to
be a philosopher and an artist and to he
| handicapped ty the obstinacy and stu
pldity Of human Kind. ..-., ......-.
g.. Don 7 seme of Your patrons take their
possibilities and defects ~ser:ously?,'
smith frightened perceptibly
r. Oh, yes he said, there are. gentle
men who know what's what They have
l. Their own hair cut and their own shave
| and they don't care a hang what the
| style is. Some Of. them are freaks. but
cont mind consistent freak Sow
| there's poet comes to me. He fioated
Into the shop one day in a Gqffy-dswn-
oil y sert of way.I could read verses
| all over him, but liked him He was
sood-lookins, and even il he was sort Of
:n!n, figured that he punched a bag
between verses, and he had good eyes
sized hin; up ana SAID to myself Hair
three inches at the collar, four in front.
Van Dyke shorter, dropping mustachc.
was cead wrong. He knew his business.
Can YOU give me Florentine hair
cut? says he.
THAT got me.
l never met ore says !. Introduce
ne and 1 can give You one
with that he Whipped out two OF
three unmcrnted photographs from his
cape coat and showed them 10 me.
Ihcy all looked alike only the faces
were 3 little different and the heads were
taken from different angles The men
all had smooth faces and hair that was
cross between Little Lord FauntIeroy
and a county. here cut You know, in
the country the mother used to take d
small choDping rowl and clap it over the
Boys head and then cut all around the
bowl. Well, those men in the pictures
looked as if their BARRIERS had used a
chopping bowl t.
rs that Florentine haircut?' says l.
." 1T is says the poet
:" 1 can do that with my eyes shut
=" That's what I want done
lie sat down in the chair ana ken. az.
eye on me in the looking glass, and I
tackled the Florent.ne method-stra: ght
bang across the forehead, long enough,
at sides to cover the tops of the cars
down over the collar and cut straight
across in the back. He had good hair
soft and thick and s:lky-and when I got
through with him he could give points
to. the Florentines in the pictures The,
we sacrificed the Van Dyke and the
| mustache. l was a little afraid of that
mouth, but it turned out all right, and
when l had finished him up I felt as il
la made a jingle myself. I'll bet he
beat any poem he ever wrote; but didn't
he have the nerve to figure out the
makeup and wear it? I've been touch
ing up his Florentine finish ever since.
II I'd die he'd have troubles of his own
But do you know, lately he's been talk
ing about changing his hair. l didn't
like to think abous it. He's SO perfect
as he is. The other day I said to q
friend of his that comes to me:
/ What in the world is making your
chum worry about his harp
1.-The fellow grinned awhile and then
he says:
well, don't YOU say 1 told you, but
LIN IdcL IL ne In iOFe.
'ren't poets always that way?' saws
More or less,'-he writes poetry him.
self-'but this time it's more The 9TH
ars were in love with him and his hair.
He's in love with her, and she says
poster girls aren't so; bad, but she can't
stand poster man. :. -
Il suppose that hair will have to go.
a
more to do with the way men wear their
hair and shave than, the men do. Ask
fellow why lie wears certain kind of
beard or hair, and it's ten to one his
wife. likes him best that way. It's the
women, think that started this smooth
shaver business. They went dotty over
matinee actors and thought smooth faces
were just too sweet and they nagged
their sweethearts and husbands into
shaving. I've had hundreds of my Gus
toners come in and have their boards
and mustaches shaved off because their
wives or best girls insisted on it. More
fools they. The women will be able to
size them up better than they could he
fore. ........... -
Sometimes men wear their hair and
beard in. peculiar way to cover some
scar or deformity, and the things / have
70 dc to offset increasing badness ,Would
make You grin. The number OF different
hair tonics am told to use-nore OF them
any good-makes me tired; but the men
bring their tonics, and put them I'D
alongside the private shaving outfits.
Funny how particular we're getting
since the microbes waded into society.
isn't 1t? The worst looking tramp that
comes In nowadays strikes for a private
mug and brush Then mere men shave
themselves every year: It's the swageer
thing, and, 81 It aeea hurt my trade. win
say its good thing for. "a mansto kposv,
how to shave himself wei. It's a spien-
did thing In an emergency, when lie can.t
get at barber; but the average man,
ruins his face doing 1T, and would much
better stick to a good Barber, except on.
extraordinary occasions. That's straight.
You needn't print advertisement after
it. j must get along. Hope You don't
mind my talking shop. Interesting? Oh,
i don't know. Good night
But the next afternoon, when the man
dropped in at his BARRIERS, deaf mute.
with nc suggestion Of beer and intimacy
in his glance shaved him. -
IRON AND FEATHERS.
How Negro Changed His I.,~o
Abe ut Their. Respective Wefxht.a