Show Why Chinese Beardless Are I Most of ot us have wondered why the Chinaman in distinction from men do does s not grow a beard Of Ot cour course e esome some members of ot the race who belong to the male mail persuasion are arc exceptions to the the rule T put t the great gleat majority of ot halo have no hair upon their face Dr Dr- DrA A A. M Dunlap Dunap of hal who has hass i given given considerable time to toI the s subject 1 holds olds that the old Chinese I custom of wearing queues queue consumed al all of the energy provided by nature for foi the raising of hair hall And now that the queue is out of ot fashion in In China In-China China Dr Dunlap Dunap thinks that beards may begin begin begin be be- gin to grow glow Writing in an American medical journal of recent date he tells some Very Tery interesting things ab about ut the Chinese barber the styles in hart hall etc The nationwide cutting off of that Manchu invention the the queue queue has has created a new class ass of modern bar- bar bors bers I do not mean to say that the barber of old China has passed with I his practices which remind us of those I of of Occidental barbers in ancient times time I liven ven in as enlightened a city as asI I bh Shanghai they the r are aie constantly to be seen seen on the street corners I I To Today ay these old men can be seen seenI I with with their washstands basins and a at t single towel which does docs for foi everybody on the shady side of ot the street In summer summer sum sum- II mer and on the sunny side In winter The customer seats himself on a hard stool an and the barber barbei proceeds to lather athel the front part of his scalp and ancI to shave sha it down clown to the ears cars The scalp finished the fa face e is shaved or 01 rather passed over o with the razor as the I growth on the average Chinese face is exceedingly e scant Just as our barbers ask if we will have a l. l shampoo the Chinese wishes vl hes to know snow mow if If his customer will have his ean ears earb sh shaved ned I have been unable to find out how and why this practice started but apparently it is is very very old since it is Is' followed by practically all ail the OriE Oriental ital tal races laces Muscular treatment forms forms' another important function of the barber As AsI I have watched them I have thought this might well have hae been the origin of osteopathy osteopath With the barbers barber's foot raised to the to-the the stool beside the customer first one arm and then the other IsI is laid ald over his Knee kne pulled rolled flexed I and land massaged This done the forehead I ma may be attacked and the skin stretched and pulled At odd moments moments' e barber is a doctor for persons fever which in the minds of the less enlightened means means the presence of an evil spirit in the body For the purpose of letting letting let let letting ting out ut fevers the barber uses a sharp n needle ede or a knife needle with which he punctures the forearm or front of the chest in numerous places A fair fall amount of blood blond I is drawn n in rn this Ibis way av I I I The Tha leech is also used for the same purpose Incidentally I 1 might sa say sav that the rule of every Chinese f. f medicine man manor manor or barber doctor is pay as you jou enter Treatment is given en much more carefully carefully care care- fully perhaps if the fee is on the ta table ta- ta hIp ble- before It starts stalls |