Show Modern Safety Razor Proves Itself Friend of the Barber Time Old Old Time Pole May Be Junked l. l y iJ r it j tJ J- J JI I rr r rj j 0 o ART of or barbering was just justi TIlE THE the same old round of work year in In and year ear out for years ears There was nothing no thin new until a few years urs ago when Instead of ot barbers the attendants began calling themselves or high sounding names for the same old business Well admit that Improvements came very ery slowly from the time Alexander Alexand r the Great compelled his soldiers to shave c their faces and trim their hair short so that enemies In battle could not get a hand hold until even cnn now Frank Burgess Ogden barber said Saturday It took look from that time until the advent of the safety razor to get getmen getmen getmen men in the habit of shaving every day The safety razor has hes been the barbers barber's greatest grea t friend in several ways It taught Americans some years ago Just as it Is 13 teaching the masses of Europe today the habit of ot clean shaved faces Then the torture of a II safety razor in bad order drives a man to the shop for tor real shaving service The common feeling that the barber shop is the same ume old place placeit it was 10 years ego is a mistake according to George Wills another Ogden barber who has employed a woman operator in his shop Who would have thought of a woman coming Into a barber shop for or any reason at all 10 years ago he asks and Who would have thought that as much care would be bo taken of children as of grown grO people How long has it been since the individual shaving mug has dis dis- disappeared disappeared dis- dis disappeared appeared from the shop for men Is 15 s the question of o another barber Some years ears ago Use the buggy was forced to resign sign in favor of the Horseless carriage So it has been with the barber shop At present there is some talk of abolishing the red and white barber pole that had its inception In the days when barbers applied the leech to bleed their customers I being our early physicians The red was symbolical of o the blood and I Ithe the white of the purity of bandages The wooden Indian in front of cigar stores is 13 truly the Vanishing American Why should barbers still persist in using the emblem of blood and bandages the barber demands REASON FOr FOU SALES The reporter said to the barber Why do you try to sell teU the cus cus- customer customer customer tomer everything e you have in the shop When a man wants a 0 hair trim you always suggest that he needs a shampoo and that a scalp rub would be good for the health ot or his hair and that a tonic is absolutely necessary ary And the man who II ho gets a a. shave and escapes with with- without without without out taking a facial massage con con- congratulates congratulates himself hl elt for a whole week wed I guess it is because the barber barberis is plain human replied the barber He has hu more time than money and he needs the money And then you know many barbers are arc working on a salary end and a com corn commission mission basis They feel that if It they do not do a little hustling busting they may go shy on room rent and lunch money Courtesy between dealer and cus cus- customer customer customer tomer Is 15 put to a great strain Very Verb often the customer woman or orman orman man does not know what would be best for them and they are halt half afraid to trust the advise of o the operator who really needs to make a sale he explained The barber mutt must not lose his temper when a a. customer rushes in In looks at the clock and says cays Ive got to catch a train Just Justa a a. shave please That customer is Just apologizing for not taking a larger line of ser ser- service ser ser- service vice Iee than Just a shave The customer develops Just lust as many tricks of trade as u does docs the barber himself |