The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-03
BARRIERS CELEBRATE
 TO-DAY IN HONOR OF TWO
 EMINENT TONSOiIALIsTS

Speak kindly to the barber and do not resent his instructions that you need q haircut, a shampoo. a facial massage. a little tonic, and a few other extras, for he may yet become a great man, and one whom you will to be derived from the fact that to- day is the 1S0th anniversary of the birth of Sir Richard Arkwrights who rose from the barber's chair to wealth, fame and imm ortality- Today is also the eighty-ninth anniversary of the death of Belzoni, the distiH- guished savant and Egyptian archae- logist, who was the son and for years the assistant of poor barber Of Padua, Italy. With these two an nfversaries to celebrate, the barber may be forgiven if he is a bit ':chesty" today.
 It was while shaving his customerE that Dick" Arkwright, the son of humble Preston parents, conceived his great idea of the spinning-franues by which Hargraves' spinning-jenny was made commercially practicable. He was thirty-seven when he took out his first patent for spinning by rollers which is the essential part Of his inventions. ArkWrfght gained wealth, fame and a title from the cot ton machinery which has added so vastly to the prosperity of England. In the opinion of Andrew Carnegies he is one of the twenty greaest men in all history-and he began life az " Giovanni t51 Rattista. Belzoni died at Benin, Africa. while on his way tO Tim nbuctoo, on Dec. 3, 1923. As a a youth Belzoni worked in his fath- er's tonsoriaI and hair dressing par Iors' in Padua, and was reckoned an excellent barber. The perusal of tha story of Robinson Crusoe led Belzoni to run away rom home in search oG adventure He was giant. in stature and possessed of great strength, and for a time he appeared in museums Dat fox holding up-literally-ten more ae once. On a visit to Egypt he became interested in archaeological research and his researches and discoveries To the tombs of ancient Egypt were of a character to give him a wide rs-- putation among scholars and saVauts. He wrote a book about his discoveries that Is still an authority. When he returned to Padua on a visit the former patrons of the ex-barber led the committee of welcome
 Many other instances might be cited of barbers who have become great, Jeremy Taylor. the imm ortal Angii- can divine and author, was the son Of a barber, and himself followed that of Taylor's birth will be widely cele- brated next year. William WinstsH- ley, author of Lives of the EngliFd Poets," and Baron Tenterden of Can terbury, were sons of tonsOrialists Dr. John Kitto, the theologians wal at one time barber, and so wal AOTO OL- AeOHdEO5 CIdutGlAOE OA AeAAa- land and Ireland. Turner, the Eng fish painter whose Slave Ship aL5 other works have made him tmmOr. tai, began his career in a barber shOD
 In ancient times in England thf barber was a surgeon as well. It wal not until 1540 that the two prOfeEs4o1If were divorced by law. An act pu' into effect that year provided: <f person using any shaving or barber in London shall occupy any surgery letting of blood, or other matter. ez1 cept only dra wing of teeth" For q century or more the barber continued to practice dentistry. The first un ion or company of barbers wal formed in 1908, and incorporated in 1f0 The Journeymen Barbers' Internationa Union now has on it's mem beraEtI rolls a large proportion of the bea barbers in the United States and Can ada and is said to be constantly gain ing in influence and thOroughneas u organization.