The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-30
BARRIERS WORK like
BEAVERS AND SAY
NOTHING
Eighty Candidates for State
Licenses to Practice the
Tonsorial Art Shave and
Cut the Hair of ALI Corners
for Two Days.

Next" said the dapper little bar
Der, waving a towel i~nvitingly apd
flourishing his razor.
A man sided into the chair, which
was drawn up in front Of the big win
dow on the third floor Of Federation
| hall. Unlike the priest in "The House
That Jack Built" the man was the re-
| verse Of shaver and shorn. His linen,
which was only cotton, was frayed and
grimy, his trousers were destitute a
crease; his boots, like most washer
women had seen better days. Yet he
received a shave that would have de-
lighted the soul of a sybarite and a
haircut that, were he a bridegroom, his
bride would have pronounced lovely"
But the dapper little barber was not
the only one Who took part in the bar
bers' clinic yesterday To the right Of
him was a tall thin barber, n to the
left Of him was a medium-SiZed bar
Der, and Zach presided over a hair that
held a man similar in appearance to
the one who occupied the dapper little
BARRIERS chair If clothes make the
woman, then a shave has much to do
with making a man Forlorn speci-
mems who yesterday sided as unob-
trusive1y as possible into the conspic-
uously placed barber chairs arose from
them with heads held proudly up and
shoulders squared.
Onape MAKES a DInercnCes
It's queer what a difference a shave
do make in a man." observed a specta-
tor, as he observed one battered crea-
ture partially disappear under the
volu1ninous folds of the big towel, and
then scrutinized the clean face and
neatly trimmed hair of another who
had just emerged from the chair. IA
shave and a shine, there's nothin' like
EN- for bracin' a fellow I'D"
7 - s1--L
worked III eaver yesterday after
noon. Not a word was uttered as each
man scraped and cut n trimmed. The
weather was not commented upon. No
bald spot was delicately referred to.
No hair tonic was mentioned. No face
massage was suggested. AS the spectac
tors watched they must have wondered
where the Sunday supplements obtain
ed inspiration for their barber shop
jokes.
But the men who shaved those who
presented a little white card on which
was written, Good for one shave"
were not proprietors of barber shops.
They We're working for the possession
Of the red and white post which looks
so much like a giant stick of old-fash-
Toned candy, and which to
all who wish a shave that it can be
procured within"
Eighty Candidates Examined.
This examination of BARRIERS which
has been conducted by State Examiner
Frank w. Martin at Federation hall
since Tuesday morning, closed last
night. A class of eighty candidates
was examined. Examiner Martin stat
ed yesterday that about 70 points out
OF a possible 100 was the average at
tanned. The least number of points that
Will allow a man to pass the examina-
ton is IS. The result Of the present
examination will not be known for
some time.
Examiner Martin asserted yesterday
that as a rule better BARRIERS are met
with in the country than In the city.
He gave as the reason for this the fact
n when a barber oes to a small
town to work, the fact tina he is good
or bad spreads rapidly, and If he leaves
his position in one shop he Is not apt
to obtain another in the town. In a
city he might be discharged every week
and no one would know anything Of it
for a year, perhaps.