The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1907-05-11
WORLDS CHAMPION BARBER.

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Nelly Wicks, worlds champion lady
shaver" at the early age of twenty
one, has served to remind Londoners
that there are only two LADY barber
shops in the modern Babylon. Per-
haps there will be fewer still, now
that the holder Of the worlds shaving
record has gone hence.
Miss Wicks came by her speed legl-
timately. being the daughter OF re-
doubtable barber, one Professor
Teddy Wicks. who taught his daughter
the art of shaving when she was a
little girl Nelly won her champion
ship at a public contest a. the Royal
Aquarium, no longer in existence,
where, child of only eight years,
she shaved twenty-one men in less
than that number of minutes. Even
then her prestige was such that no
other woman dared compete with her.
Other women are very rapid shaw
ers. however The woman f0f whom
Nelly worked could shave a man in
six seconds under the ilinute-not
counting the lathering. of course
But" she added, in talking over the
"lady barber" situation. II would not
attempt it in London. London gentle
men would have fit if one shaved
them at that lightning pace"
But even one shave every f1fty-six
seconds does not sound quite as big
stunt as that executed by another
"lady barber" who accepted an en-
gagement to shave a lion tanner IN
lions cage at some show.
"They gave me s25 night she
told the reporter who was Investigate
ing the record of the lamented Miss
Wicks. THE tanner sat holding
loaded revolver while lathered and
scraped him. Once he had to get up
and whip the lion back into the cor
ner"
The worst-or the best-of barber
ing, viewed as an occupation for wo-
men, is that the business is a high
road to matrimony. Employers OF
LADY BARRIERS" all say the same thing:
Il can't keep the incest girls. They
meet men here. They all get mar
ried."-New York Tribune
EDUCATING GIRLS IN EAST.
DR.. Roxana H. Vivian. instructor Of
mathematics in Wellesley College.
who is spending a years leave of alb
sence in teaching at the American
College for Girls in Constantinople,
writes in a recent letter:
"A characteristic example of the
way education for girls is regarded in
the Orient, and also typical Of East
ern bargaining, is the experience the
college once had with a rather i'm
portant gentleman who wished to send
his two daughters to the college. BY
dint Of perseverance and bringing va
rious influences to bear he finally
made an arrangement by which this
two girls were to come for half price.
When September arrived only one
girl appeared, and with no money,
but she brought message from her
father that he had decided to send
one girl for nothing rather than two
at half price.
Half the problem of education here
in the East is to make people under
stand and appreciate it enough to
want it. The result is that students
Of all grades of preparation and ability
are expected and provided for, and
the work Of the instructor is very
largely individual. The classes are
small and there is hardly enough ma
terial Of any one variety to call it
Parts of the work are neces-
sarily elementary, but it is approached
from a truly broad. scholarly and pro-
gressive standpoint. Girls marry
early in the East, and the years for
study are correspondingly few. They
enter college young anc immature,
but four years Of college training
make apparently greater differences
with them than with American girls.
"The language work is important
and varied in a school where there
ire fourteen nationalities. Such work is
not very easy for students in this land
of many tongues, and it makes mathe-
mates seem especially difficult. 1t is
the custom for students to thank an
instructor as they rise and leave the
but I fear it is often only
} form as they leave a mathematics
unless they mean they are
hov MI kn T.
THINK ON THESE THINGS.
Did you ever stop to think:
That kind word put out at inter.
vt, bringS Dack an enormous percent
zee Of love and appreciation?
That though a loving thought may
lot seem to be appreciated, 1t has yet |