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Show tiAnrjEn cauoht 1 fa lit Pitraartllnar Art af Calltag I III, Own lUIr "t saw a barber do a rooit extraor-I extraor-I dlnary thing tho other day," remarks I a gentleman In tho Clrunenld lolluy last cicnlng "What was It?" Inquired In-quired a friend, "did he ehivo somebody some-body without telling him lis thatch needed trimming " "Btraager than that," replied the other, "I saw hi in cutting his own hair It wti tho first tlmo I ever witnessed anything of the kind In my life, and I would hato sworn that It couldn't lie dose, but this chap seemed to experience no trouble whatever with tho Job Ho was sitting down before n mirror on a small table and had another looklng-xlits propped up ou a shelf behind him That gave him a pretty fair view of the back or his head, and when my attention was attracted to tho performance he was working nway with comb and scissors as It It was tho most ordinary thing In the world. I noticed that ho was ambidextrous ambi-dextrous nnd used both hinds with apparently equal ease, something that must have, helped him materially, but nevertheless It was a remarkable teat He got tnrouRtiTwor,t ,cTad..in.1 chair, and afterward tSootfn close look at his head It was ns neat and oven a piece of hair (rimming as anybody any-body would care to see, and had been graduated down the back In tho best stylo of tonsortal art Tho man told mo when I questioned him that ha had cut hla own hair for years, and 'wouldn't trust a barber on It Ho Raid ho bad Just picked It up, and that It came sort of uitural. I'll bet, all tho same, that he looked like a singed cat whllo ha was leitnlng. It's not nn uncommon thing for Chinamen to shave their own heads, but we expect nil sorts ot extraordinary things from tho Chlneso, and this halr-ruttlng act truck mo as a prlre txplolt for a plain, everyday white rain "Now Orleans Times-Democrat |
