The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-04

let fever. expressed her intention of
taking them to a hairdresser so that
their heads might have good brush
ing. "Children's heads are always
security after scarlet fever, and these ma
chine brushes are so much better than
an ordinary hair brush" said this art
less person.
Well, never mind. I dare say after
reading this you will have machine
brush just the same.
We are not particular. SO long as
there are a few mirrors on the wall
and some comfortable chairs which do
not jerk out clouds of dust unless we
sit down too heavily, we are satisfied
The whited sepulchre is an ancient In
stitu6on. but il is not yet out of date.
A little glass and gilt cover much filth
mess.
Eczema. ringworm, smallpox. scar
let fever. and the thousand and one
diseases which man is heir to must be
borne with patient resignation. So we
say, so long as our neighbors suffer,
and not ourselves.
And yet there is one place in London
where these things are not to be suf-
fered patiently-one BARRIERS shop
wherein the guileless bacillus entereth
not, or if he entereth, goeth no more
out.
III a.
It is in Jermyn street. west, where
this wonderful BARRIERS shop sets con-
ventionality at defiance and barricades
itself against all microbes, germs, and
baCilli whatsoever.
Here are no upholstered chairs, nor
artistic ''hangings," nor soft carpets.
nor VelVet-coVered footstools, i'm which
the dust of a dirty city, the hair re-
fuse of many heads, the skin-peelings
of many people may be secreted.
All is plain and austere. The chairs
are made of white enamled iron. The
foot rest is of nickel steel, and of
construction which allows no harbor-
age of dust. The place is uncommonly
like surgical operating room.
To be shaved here is unique ex-
perience.
AS one takes ones seat the barber,
clad in an India rubber covered coat.
wipes with an antiseptic sponge the
India rubber pad upon which one is to
rest ones head He then envelopes one
in a long coat and puts round ones
neck a smaller cloth of a similar ma
terial to his own coat. The larger one
is always sponged down in antiseptic
solution after it has been used by
customer, and one a day is sterlized
by steam. The smaller cloth is used
for one customer only and then ster-
ilized. Dipping the fingers of the left
hand in an antiseptic solution, the
barber takes from an alright case
patent shaving brush which has been
previously sterilized. He then opens
a tiny capsule of soap powder, just
sufficient for one shave. Having
lathered his man, never allowing his
fingers to touch the face, he produces
from a dust-tight drawer a sterilized
RI which hn infn IN
solution. IN
Farewell, Bacillus.
Ones stubble is removed easily and
rapidly, and ones face afterward
rinsed with distilled water by ster-
ilized India rubber sponge. which is
never used twice without being sub
jected to the microbe- killing steam. A
powder puff, which is afterward de-
stroyed, is used for ones face with
powder from a little capsule sufficient
only for one. A clean white cloth is
then handed to one, and afterward re-
moved at once. The shave is COM
plete The bacillus has been defeated.
So also for hair cutting. Scissors, comb
and brush are steriliZed and dipped in
antiseptic solution every time before
use.
Not a detail escapes attention. There
is no tiny crevice through which a
bacillus could even poke his nose-if
he has such a feature.
And yet there is no discomfort, no
fuss-and, stranger still, no extra
charge.
Oh, unscientific BARRIERS of Britain,
pay visit, though not all at once, to
Jermyn street, west. There you will
receive an object lesson in the good old
maxim that cleanliness is next to god
Iiness"