The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-05-15
THE CHINESE BARBER.
Complications Which Beset the Celes-
 tiaI Hair-Dresser.

Complications Which Beset the Celes-
 tial Hair-Dresser.
 Chinatown has now two barbers and the monopoly once enjoyed by Lee Yu of Mott street is at an end, unless he forms a syndicate with the newcomer, who has shop on Pell street. His trade is more complicated than that ot his foreign devil colleague, and de- mands al onger apprenticeship He slaves with smaller razor, and for a shaving-brush uses what looks sus- piciousy like a cheap tooth brush. m lathering, he applies small daub of soap-suds which covers about one square inch. When this is shaved oHr he daubs another little tract of skin, slaves, and so keeps on until the tasK is over. Not only the lower face and neck. but also the temples, forehead. the space around the ears, and the lower bac kof the head, are operated upon The ears require especial attention. For their treatment, he has an ear razor, no larger than surgeons lancet. With this he slaves the fuzz on the back or the ear the down on the front, and the OflSClGS III llC CuA peAN1Set S.i NAA VI ing. he polishes the ear with cotton nad and then bard-stone rubber. Ac- cording to the tonsorial canons of the Far East the model ear is pink ana polished like carving in ross coral
 The hairs which grow in the nostrlls are removed by tweezers. This opera ton, painful to an American mas no terrors for John Cinnamon He Deglns tweezering in youth. and at twenty-nve is accustomed to the practice Accord- ing to the barber, the hair sacs grow larger and looser so that each halH comes out with but little trouble or smart. After shaving comes the dress- ing of the queue. This is not simpld strand of hair, as it appears, put a rope in which a little harris ingeniously plaited with black silk cords. The aver- l age queue is one-fourth hair and three- 1 fourths silk The barber unplaits It, lays aside the silk, shampoos, dries, I and oils the hair; rubs it with a silk | cloth, combs it out and then bra1ds 1t | with the silk After the braidfng is over. he scents the masterpiece with al very small amount of some perfume. | When the customers is in f1urrys ] this ends the operation. In other leases, he passes through series on t2massage and Swedish movements. His 1 head is rotated his back and shoulders bounded and rubbed, his arms and
 hands moved vigorously at every joint.
 the fingers opened and shut and each
 knuckIe pulled until it cracks. The bar-
 Der must examine the eyebrows, eye- | lashes and finger-nails, and attend to
 every blemish For this purpose, fa | has tiny scissors, cameps-hair pencils,
 and instruments very much like those
 of the manicurist. For skin disorderse
 he has many preparations washes
 ointments, powders and plasters. Young
 Chinamen, especially the well-to-do are
 eager to have nice compilations, and
 rely upon the barber for the cure of alE l cutaneous disorders. His compensation
 is very good, from either Western or , Eastern point of view. For shave he charges twenty-five cents and for full
 performance with all the Oriental ex-
 tras thrown in, half-dollir. In ona
 respect he may be initiated by our owR tradesmen. He uses a towel mada of
 solf silk which is a hundred-fold more
 grateful to the skin than the cotton or linen tissues of our own civilization.-> New York Evening Post.