The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-08-26
YORK SOLDIER VISITED
TONSORIAL PARLOR ONE TIME
The Razor Was Dull and the Whole
Operation Painful One Even
Though Administered by
Fair Lady.

Fair Lady.
L. M. Grist in Yorkville Enquirer.
Not many of you York county fel-
lows ever got shave in French
barbershop with a woman doing the
shaving.
Lucky for you.
don't know whether you know it
or not; but it is fact nevertheless
that the finest barbershops in all the
world are to be found in the United
States and Canada. Oh, of course
the razors Of the BARRIERS in England
and France are just as sharp as are
those of the BARRIERS in America.
Still every man knows that there is
a lot more to a good shave than a
sharp razor.
France knows nothing about luxu-
riantly furnished barbershops with
comfortable, we'll upholstered posi-
tion chairs and electric fans and big
mirrors and all those things that we
in America know.
And most of the BARRIERS over there
are women. Maybe the male BARRIERS
are in the majority in times of peace;
hut I do not think so. At least
YVES told that most of the shops were
run by women all the time. I saw
very few male BARRIERS the whole
time I was in France.
We fellows in the army were not
supposed to put out any of our good
money on shaves. Uncle Sam furn-
ished each of US with a good safety
razor before we went overseas and
even those of US who had not been
used to doing our own shaving, soon
learned the art.
Hardly had we been settled in
France however, before some of the
members of my outfit learned that
the barbershops in the village were
conducted by girls and that they
were pretty good looking mademoi-
selles, too. t
! That was something new to most
of us-the idea Of woman work
ing as barber and every lad in the
outfit made dive for one of the
barbershops, feeling the need of a
shave. The attraction of course was
the idea Of being shaved by a girl.
Some of the lads were 80 struck with
the novelty of the thing that they
called for everything on the bar
ber's ssbill of fare" shave, shampoo,
hair cut, massage, hair singe-the
whole works.
Oh, yes. / did it too, a little later.
5 A buddy of mine came back to
camp one evening all cleaned up like
a young buck shined up for the big
meeting with dinner on the grounds.
6 swell, Grist, don't I look like six
teen-year-old grille, wanting to be
kissed for the first time?" he quer-
led cheerfully as he attempted to put
His arms around me in fun.
sect along with you," / returned.
<sYou look so clean am afraid OF
you"
"Oh, boy" he said, "best looking
girl in France shaved me and mas
saged me and cut my hair and put on
all these other frills," and then he
proceeded to give me my first knowl-
edge of French barbershops with
good looking girls running them. ;
Well "a couple of days later l
sauntered into one of the shops.
It was two chair affair. The
BARRIERS were girls. Right pretty
girls, too.
The chairs were ordinary straight
backed chairs, with sort of head
rest. Those chairs, however, were
not revolving chairs and they could
not be made to lie down like the
chairs in barbershops here.
On the wall were a couple of mir
rors each about as big as minute.
On a stand lay several razors, a
square shaped strop and shaving
mug. There was hard bench near
by for the waiting customers to sit
on.
The shop was comfortably filled
and those girls worked like they
were going to funeral, and in no
hurry to get back for supper. There
was strapping American soldier in
each chair. One of them, I remem-
ber, had a beard that looked like it
was as hard and as tough as the hide