Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1917-11-21
AMERICANS CRY /
OUT FOR CARRIERS
French Tonsorial Artists DOM
Know How to Clip Hair
or Shave Necks.
LONG LOCKS THE FASHION
Soldier Boy Tells Of Sad Experie,e.
In Paris--SmeIIed Like a so,n
Counter When French Barber
Got Through With Him.

6ot tnrou0n with Him.
Field headquarters. American Army
In France. This il a special appeal to
BARRIERS and II comes straight fran tho
barracks and hillets OF the bows over
here. Every hair of their heads cries
out for the clippers and neck shave
that they left back home and viii mn,
be comforted.
The American soldier simply cannot
understand the French barber and I,
doesn't look as IL he ever would learn
how. When he gets his hair Gu, he
wants II cut short, he wants his neck
shaved, he doesn't want little loyelocks
left hanging over his eyes and he
doesn't want "a lot o. muck rubbed on~
Add to that the difficulty of telling the
Frenchrnan all those things and the In.
herent helplessness Of a man In a bar.
ber's chair. and you have truly tragic
situation.
He Looked like "Teddy Bear"
Here is the tale Of youngster In
the quarternasters corps, who drives
one OF the trucks. His shaggy head
was mu,e evidence NJ his earnes,nass
There amt barber In our outfit
he said. $50 by the time I got nm n
Paris looked like Teddy bear. First
thing I did WINS TO ask one of them
John Arms cops where can | get an
American haircut. He made out to tell
me about a place on boulevard an ]
mnde him tel, n IN n coacher an ,be
coacher drove me thsre Thors m.
ontv wev In par,s-m.Le n roh, Arms
tell n confederation Won can't get los.
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In one Of them chairs with my feet on
the rest. Right awny though. little
Frenchman comes up an ties a big
apron around my neck an puts nv
arms In II. After that II weren't nc
use-that apron straneled me when.
ever tried TO move or open my mouth
.well. this ruv says something. SC
i saws .Haircut, an, he comes back
.Aircoot? All. couper les cbeveux.'
knew enourh IN say sWee vice. an
we started. He didn', have no clip
pers. an, he kent nibb,ln with paIr
of nail scissors / guess. didn't know
the French for short and there weren't
no real mirror there Ike there ought
to he. So I sat fight an hoped for the
best. Pretty soon he discovered that
my hair was dry: II he'd been drivn
truck for two weeks sod his heen
dry. an after some talk that I couldn't
re,-conrse 7 said .,yee' IN he r"-e-
nil OF sudden ne dumps VII pint
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my head.
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