| Show THE PRIZE ESSAY the origin and add bistor f the art of barbering Bir barberin bering BY CHARLES W STAYNER how seldom we corn com re the personal sona privileges and bodily comforts enjoyed by us in this generation with those of our ancestors who lived in the early part of the present century not to say anything of those who moved ta in more primitive times jimb s perhaps in foshing noshing no thins Is this more fu fully ily exemplified than in the luxury of barber lag the gentleman who sits in an elegant teas tea onal saloon of the present period and loun lounging I 1 g in an easy ilay lay back chair been before re a freno french plate mirror muses upon his business affairs while the soft lingers fingers of the modern manipulator pass agreeably over his well moistened visage and a sharp hollow ground razor musically rem removes ves the stubble growth from his bis chelk check and chin has perhaps no mo colic conception eption of the hum ole or origin i gin and painful history ol of the art arto of barbering bir ii bering which in its present perfection tiou especially in america fills such a want in our adva advanced civilization tilts this ot course has no reference to a penny shave in an eng lisa back street during which the old fashioned razor makes but five strokes two on each cheek and ove one on the chin and the victim goes without washing but we beau mean a iregui regular ar fifteen cent shave in a first class establish ment like the temple barber shop in very ancient times limes beards were allowed to grow untouched by the razor and what shaving was done was performed upon the head and the open operation tion or rather the abstaining from its performance seems to have in religious significance as in the case of what was called the vow the shaving of the need nead while it was evidently tile the origin of the art of barbering seems to have been deemed improper at least for those holy people who made this peculiar cove covenant vaut unlike tae men of the present day the ancients cientos were provided with a very growth of the ca capillary illary covering and to relieve the heat head from its weight of hair and also to provide against the intense beat which afflicted them in their nomadic method of living they considered it a luxury to shave the head in whole or in part this was denied to the Naz arites and they vowed to let the hair remain it must be obvious to all reflecting persons that it the Naz arites who were thus forbidden to shave their heads had lived in our day they need not have bave considered their vow in this regard to be any great sacrifice neither would it have been of very much value for in a short time lime the hair would have left of its own accord and at the age of five or sooner in most in stances instances we not with the best beat opera glasses have told a nayrue from a gentile in the baliet bal tet sea ok the salt eukle theatre theare butt bat the tae adl religions artance oi of the vow as by gitil ica reference is i oui oar notice it will be remembered that when an angel appeared and promised a son named samson to the wife of manoah that the heavenly personage used these words no razor shall come upon his af bead hea d for the child shall be a nazaret Naz arlt unto onto god from the womb the suase quent strength of this son of promise the scripture says departed irom from him when his bis locks were shaven off by his lifes barber wilile while the giant lay asleep see ace judges xvi 1719 1710 17 19 10 that was the dearest shave or hair haircut cut ever inflicted at least the dearest in the record oi of barbering that chat has reached the writer of this article it even bests beats the charges at the palace and palmer house with all the extras at tall tail prices they are as dross compared with delilaha Deli lahs charge for barbering tier ter husband and by a hired philistine at wat that no man could have sot got such a price surely as they say women can do more than men mell but alt samson never went to her shop again ampawn 0 it seems seem however that to in up apostolic times the sentiment was changed in the matter of letting the hair grow for paul says doth not even nature itself teach you that it if a man have long hair it is a shame unto him 1 I 1 cor chap xi v 14 when the mother of the great prophet samuel went into the temple and entered into a covenant with the lord in regard to the child before his birth a part of the promise she made was and there shall so no razor come upon his head his hi powerful career as a prophet from childhood to old age is a matter of biblical history and need only be referred to to prove he was favored of god but what influence upon his great life his perpetual growth of hair produced we are not able with present information to determine the art of barbering has found its place in both poetry and prophecy thu the scriptures make figurative mention of the razor and of shaving as tor for instance psalm lii iii v 2 thy tongue de viseth mis chiefs like a sharp razor working deceitfully also in isaiah vii v 20 in the same day shall the lord shave with a razor that to is hired namely by them beyond tile the river by we tae king of assyria the head bead and the tair hair of the feet and it shall also consume the beard 11 then in ezekiel afta chapter and first verse the prophet is commanded as follows and thou son of man mantakes thee a sharp katy knife take thee a barbers razor and cause it to pass upon thy head and upon thy beard this shows that ahat barbers went by their present droles dional name at this early period years before christ in what artistic artisti cor or non artistic manner hes hea defers the squires and ana the doehla of those days performed the several acts required by bv their business we are not iut iDt ormed aby by holy writ but but judging troi from n public opinion of the superiority 0 of f mpr chur times we may safely a suppose and un unhesitatingly hesitatingly state that the appointments point ments of a B C barber saloon were not as inviting and luxurious as taj chuse se of the temple hempfe barbel barbei shop although perhaps as near to such a sac red edifice and in the midst of as holy a city but at the time of which we write the jews were practicing preat great wickedness duess and their captivity under Babylo rule as predicted by isaiah in the language quoted above was near at hand band let us hope the figure ceases here and that the power OL of modern babylon will not be able to perfect tile the illustration by an absolute re repetition edition of history F in more modern times several cen furies our had reached theal the galty of surgery as well as shaving and to be perfect in his profession a barber had to become a phlebotomist la in fact in the days when bleeding was considered essential to 10 the recovery of a patient barbers were the surgeons who performed the operation tiou they were call called ed barber surgeons and were incorporated corp rated orated with pur surgeons geons in their protective guilds the barbers pole which is still used as the sign of the art was originally des designed ned as a representation of a baud bandaged ageg limb the red stripe indicating a ribbon or strip of linen wound in spiral form around the armand i ledwith ted with the blood of the patient th the addition of a blue stripe in some instances is a more recent idea and either indicates a patriotic love for or the tricolor combination on the part of the proprietor or a taste for variegated painting in the breast of the artist in the seventeenth century barbers were appointed like physicians and surgeons for service in hospitals in provi providing dinc for such an official for a certain institution at that time the rule was made to real read there shall be a barber who shall cut cat and pole the hair of all scholars and look to the cure care of all who may have any need of his art vl the last provision seems to imply great confidence in the ability of the barber it almost infers an imperative c zare cure lor for the patients of the institution A physician is generally required to prescribe with care a surgeon to operate with skill but here is a command to see to the cure ot of those who have need of the barbers art such a provision in the medical practice of of the present age would be quite a benefit to society it would effectually settle e tile the question with wh chour r solons have struggle aled or or several sessions ol 01 0 the 4 and which ahio kh has a s al alwaes ays gp e over ove our non diploma p physicians will persist in curing N people and letting the public know it li if a doctor cures a patient what more can he do they say and it is not bad logic the benefit is in ia no way increased by an official parchment and of what use would the learned document be to the doctor or the family if the pat bent unfortunately lay dead before them to compel the physician to look to the cure of his patients i is of more service to a sickly eom thap to assure the bereaved by an official writing that their medical attends at was able to produce a cure after falling to do so however atals was toe the requirement in regard to barbers in those days and it aias was not until some time afterwards that the duties ol of surgeons ons were separated from those of barbers as now performed bythe by the latter many will testify testify fK however that barbers cling to t their air old profession as tenaciously as they do to their insignia of the surgical art in tact fact bleeding seems to come more bandy a dy to some of them than barbering barb erinc when people are habata habituated abed to certain practices it is hard bard to forsake them so when a barber nicks your cuticle with his bis razor dant swear at him but remember how recently his bis pro bession demanded this of him officially and be thankful that you dont have to leave his shop carrying a facsimile of his sign upon sour person to in the shape of a bandaged belt arm and it is evident that thatis if some barbers held such privileges now you would be lucky to have anything left with which their razors could come in contact it may be interesting to our readers to mention how bow the business of barbering originated in this cit yand something of its present condition in 1851 four years aher the arrival and settlement of the pioneers william hennefer in now ow a barber on second south str street beet opened a shop in the basement of a building on a site now occupied by the thirteenth ward coop co op at that time city creek went past the front of the premises in its natural channel ten feet wide and a narrow footbridge foot bridge furnished a means tor for customers to cross it when they mantea mr heers he berls ers services he fie in vicinity and finally into the stuart building but his place of business was the wily only barber hop bhoj in the city tor for two years during which jew mud and gentile mormon und mon golian it any there were who needed a ibave or a shampoo congregated in his bis primitive retreat and discussed their respective tenets while they enjoyed the tonsorial ton serial treatment accorded them prices were the same ame as now for shaving and hair cutting was 10 cents cheaper most people paid caso cash except the tithing hands blinds who paid church orders as now some steady customers paid monthly or at longer periods in produce it is presumed that mr experience in this particular was something similar to that of artemas ward offers of curious kinds were made by customers in regard to the variety ot of pay and doubtless he be was as liber liberal lil as the genial hearted showman woo who took anything anything from a squash to a sucking pig pl brov providing ding he could only eat it it i is s said that in those trying times when a young lellow fellow went to a party he took his girl on one arm and a pumpkin under the other and it if the produce came to more than the ticket he be ROI got his bis change in little squashes or perhaps cucumbers which his partner artner could take home to her mo mother egartner tg er in 1853 john squires he be who has just bew bete pardoned by president cleveland of the he offence offense of living with two wives established we toe second barber shop in salt lake city he was president briham brigham vi 0 barber till that gent lemans death and was the only man ever known to take the president by bv the nose in his lifetime ile he used to RO go with him aim on all excursions among the settlements shaved the company during durina theia Jd louincy lour urneY ncy ilia his sons of whom he has baa quite a number are all excellent artists artista with the razor and one of them la is an artist also with wita the ease easel and some of his pictures have considerable merit there are in this city at the present time sixty one barbers and d all seem to be ras making ng a living some ome ot of these are superior to any barbers the writer has found in the states or in europe and probably surpass any in the world in tact fact it has bas been a surprise to toper per sons 9 going from here east and especially I 1 at the hotels to find that their salt t lake barbers were in some in aces much superior to those doing a large business in great cities and it ic is al source of pleasure to note that the patron of 0 a salt lake barber shop shops 4 9 never embarrassed by the proprietors proprietor a solicitations citations soli to purchase patented preparations for the benefit of the hair scalp skin beard and other component parts of the purchasers anatomy the writer has known cases in new york where the patron of a hotel harber shop was induced to spend from 3 50 to 5 by the importunities of the philistine who fixed his bis hair and I 1 was afterwards informed that the man was compelled to press these purchases or endanger nis his position as an employed of the establishment before closing it is proper to state that many men have risen to positions of great trust from the ranks of the barbers profession their calling gave them opportunities tor lor study of which they availed themselves till they were proficient in other branches and rose to eminence As a class they are intelligent and perhaps more familiarly mili arly ly intimate with distinguished I 1 people than the laborers in any other ether sphere they caa profit by this acquaintance and can thus gain in more ways one patronage among these who have risen from the realm of barber dom to spheres of a more ambitious character are rev jeremiah taylor the great theolo theologian glan sir richard arkwright the noted inventor of spinning machinery lord chief justice Ten derden the great jurist ot of england john hunter the well known artist antl anti many others I 1 who have made their mark in the worlds history whose names do not i now occur to the writer |
