The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-30
By ARTHUR B. nAUsMAN Special Dispatch to The Age Herald (COpyright. 1922. by The AGe-HeraId)


 Copyright. I922 by The Age-HeraId)
 Union Hill, N. J., April 28.-Man- mere man-has been forced from his last place of refuge, the barber shop.
 Ludwig Decker, boss barber of this thriving little New Jersey town, came to the wise conclusion some time ago that Oobbed hair was no mere fancy for women; that it was a mode which would endure and that hair -bobbing was an art to be studied with eX- treme care and great seriousness.
 Now Ludwig no longer bothers with the piebeian haircut or the matituti- nal shave. He just hasn't time, that's all. And the inoffensive male of the species who chances to wander into Ludwig's shop, crowded with women and girls, is greeted with a glance of astonishment and derision, just as few short years ago the men would have greeted woman in a barber shop, and is further embar- rassed by much giggling and whis- pering Small wonder that men are growing fewer and fewer in Ludwig's place.
 Instead there come to the shop stately society matrons, cooks, do- nestle, stenographers, high school girls, flappers, finale hoppers and shifters-from many cities and towns, for Ludwig's fame among the women has spread far and wide.
 Worries Little Over Loss
 So Ludwig cares not for the losA of his male patronage. Business Is so good that he has had women and girls to increase his force of assist ants and is even now considering the acquisition of adjoining property, with the idea of enlarging his shop and increasing it's faciltes.
 A check system has been installed by Ludwig. Next" does not find fla vor with his fair customers. The "Po, lice Gazette" has been banished from it's wonted place on the reading ta- ble. In it's stead are motion picture magazines and fashion and pattern books. Pictures and prints of prize ring champions and beauties of the stage in tights have also vanished from the walls, to be replaced by pastoral scenes.
 And only a very short time ago, Ludwig's barber shop was almost ex- actly the same as thousands of oth- CTS in this broad land.
 Razors there are growing rusty shaving mugs are accomplishing lay CT upon layer of dust. But the floor is Kept meticulously clean. Cuspidors are no longer anywhere in evidence
 Moving Picture Model
 Ludwig or one of his four assist ants finished bobbing the hair of the woman in his chair. A buxom house. wife presents her check and takes her place for the "operation.e She opens to the rotogravure section of a photoplay magazine, turns to the picture of bathing beauty, and calmly informs the barber, q want to look like that And though the task seems impossible, the sur geon" does the best he can. That best is usually good enough. for Lud- wig himself is an artist and his as- sistants are all given course of in- struction by him before they are all lowed to attend their first customer
 Last Saturday Ludwig and his as- sistants stood ankle deep in hair. Inside the shop was thronged. Out side, Blum street, in the immediate vicinity, was crowded by lines of waiting women and girls Ludwig was forced to ask for police assist ance, and it was well he did, for more than once women in line became en- gagged in an argument over position, and only the presence of formidable looking blue coats prevented a hair pulling. nail-rending match.
 One Hundred fin Line
 More than loo stood in line that day, waiting from one to five hours for their turn. One thing worries No, he doesn't object to smoking, though comparatively few of his customers favor Lady Nicotine. Chewing gum is the big drawback incident to a feminine clientele. At- ter business hours. Ludwig and his assistants find wads of gum, coated with quantities of hair, adhering firmly to the soles of their shoes. under the seat of their chairs, on the lower rim of the tables-every- where there's gum.
 Women who wish to appear youth ful must repeat their visits. After bobbing, curling is needed, and then there is waving-deep sea, rolling, permanent (Ior one week., marcel, etc. The new trade, how ever. is hard to manage. The GUS toner, satisfied with almost any thing at first is positive about just what she wants on her second VIslt. And her tips, Ludwig says, are far below the average generosity of his former male customers.
 number of other barbers in the have taken up hair bobbing, but Ludwig 1ame continues to draw trade from all parts of this and other counties. The initial cost IS low. Customers, however, are kept coming back and are assessed, after due persuasion, for henna dipping, curling, waving, and trimming. The hair must be trimmed and curled regularly to look we'll, Needless to say. many husbands are finding cause for complaint concerning added ex- pense.
 The male manicurist has come into being in Ludwigs shop. And the lat ter has been requested to install tea-room to relieve the mOnotUny ol the long wait forced upon many GUS toners. Ludwig is considering the matter
 Competition Across the Way
 Two newspaper men who needed shaving made their way the other day to Ludwig's shop. They were surprised to find many women stand ing outside. with here and there a forlorn- looking man wheeling go- cart and gazing wistfully toward the country of ours that there were more men like you in Congress. The whole is wrong, and is simply prompted by an element of the Amer ican Legion and .fostered by a num- Der of politicians who are looking after their political fences at home. There is nobody except this element of the American Legion that wants