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Show FOR CURTAINED BARBER SHOP, Woman Decries the Common Practice of Publicity. "Queer, Isn't It," said tho obsorv-ant obsorv-ant woman, "that though American men are modest individuals, they bnvs been contout nil theso years to be shaven and shorn and massaged in full view ot any ono who happens to ba passing. I mean that all tho barber shops aro on tho street lovel or below it, anu wun a wcaitn ot uncunainou glnss front that allows n man's toilet to bo regarded as a matter ot public, interest. You might think this exposure expos-ure was tolerated by tho customer only becaUBO it Insures a good, Btrong light for tho dollcato operation of Bbavlng; but not so, for oven at night whon the clcctrlo lights are glaring down tbo shades romaln up, and podos-trlans podos-trlans may gazo upon unlovoly lathered lath-ered faces In any barber shop they pass, doing ovor a comparatively small area last week I counted 200 tonsorlnl parlors and not ono of them attomptod oven tho gauzlest screening screen-ing between Its customors and tho public gaze. Personally I don't consider con-sider that a man 1b nt his handsomest under tho barber's bands, do you?" Now York Prpss, |