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Show GETTING HAIR CUT IN JAPAN. Peculiar Doings of a Very Serious Barber Bar-ber In Toklo. On returning to tho hotel I indulged In a Japanese hair cut for tho first time. Hero yon don't go to tho barber shop. The barber shop comes to you. A very serious looking young Jap with sober-hued kimono watting upon me at my room at the hotel, and undoing his barberous Instruments, deftly and skillfully executed a very good modern mod-ern hair cut in a very short tlmo. He did not tenderly rub his hand over that little bald place on the back of tho head (most all old boys Lave It) and enlarge on tho virtues of his Inimitable hair restorer, and tell you how much brighter Hfo would seem to you If you would only Invest in a bottlo of It, nor did ho enlarge on various themes to display his conversational con-versational powers, but conilncd himself him-self strictly to his professional work. In some respects Japanese barbers aro profcrablo to thoso of our country. coun-try. Possibly this superiority may arlso from tho fact that as thoy do not know our language they could not indulge in tho customary "airy persiflage" per-siflage" If they wanted to. Brooklyn Eagle. |