The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1927-09-09
MADE
REGULAR SHIEK
GOES TO SLEEP NEXT DOOR TO A
BEAUTY SHOP, WAKES UP WITH
PINK CHEEKS

Don't go to sleep in a barber shop
which has a beauty parlOr
You may not recognize yourself when
you are suddenly jerked up in the chair
and gaze into the glass. You may look
like Lon CLANCY, Charlie Chaplin, John
BaTryc,O ore or Bull Montana, depending
on Cls artistic ability of the barber.
Ed Peterson, steam filter, employed by
a helena concern, found this Out and he
says he would rather go to sleep on the
Job than to fall asleep in the chairs OF
Foy's barber shop on South Main street
in Helena, where he enjoyed 80 minutes
Of undisturbed slumber the other day
out awakened to find himself looking /
an Arrow Collar kid peering out from a
big bill board.
"Pete" had been out late the night be-
fore and was sadly n need Of sleep. He
stepped into the chair and ordered 'close
shave, machine massage and 20 minutes
under six hot towels"
Old Time Shop
/ Now in the old days a barbe rshop had
a razor, pair Of shears, cake OF soap,
square chunk Of chalk, a quart Of rain
water favored with bay rum, nj a copy
Of hi Police Gazette a month Did.
Today a barber shop has all the arti-
cles necessary for a motion picture actors
makeup room. There is liquor white
powder and baby pink rouge; there are
pencils for the eyebrows and white paint
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plucKing the eyebrows and instruments
for removing particles Of the baseball dia-
mond from the skin. They can take a
chimney sweep and if the hot water holds
out, send him out into the air looking
like a French doorman.
This is what big Pete" went up
against when he slept in Foy's barber
shop which has a beauty shop attached.
The artist got through with Pete's shave
and massage and the hot towels, but
Pete slept On, snoring like a Poland
China hog asleep in the summer sun.
The barber first painted his eyebrows,
touching them up delicately until he
looked like George Arliss in 'rhe Devil"
He Vas Transformed
Still Pete slept on unconscious Of the
touches of the delicate and skillful I'm
gers which were Transforming him from
a steamf1tter to the reproduction Of a
hoorwalker In Louis Sherry's confseur
shop on Fifth venue Then q touch Of
Pete's high cheek bones. It quickly
turned pink and red n was shaded
down with half a pint OF liquid white
powder. Still Pete slept. He o more
than ever i the undertaken had been
fixing him up for his relatives to take q
last look.
With a start like a man coming out
; from the effects Of q pipe full Of the sa-
cred lower Of Chinatown, Big Pete woke
: up:
2 EOI the love Ol Mike 0ulllNdLs WuGI6
) in h am I and whose the sheik whose
mug is painted on the mirror" yelled
: Pets. What the devil did you do to my
: face or is 1t my face you've been lifting2'
{ Pete poked his finger into the pink patch
on his cheek. 1t was him and the long
: sharp and somewhat unfinished nails
Z made a big dent in the delicately deco.
rated skin Of the burly steamhtter. PETE
grabbed a towel and wiped OF what hi
could, but most Of it was there for ovel
night.
Pete Gives Advice
81 had to go and work four hour
pullin' the hues out OF the dirtiest dan
boiler In Helena in order to get my fac
back to it's natural color again." sal,
Pete. Never go to sleep in q barbe
shop which has a beauty doctor mex
door. They are liable to fix your face 81
you viii have to squirt soda the rest @
It your life instead Of Wrestle pipe wrenche
b and chase back to the shop after tools.