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Show LUXURY IN THE BARBER'S CHAIR. Gentle Shavers Reap Harvests in New York and Brooklyn. The practice of employing lady barbers bar-bers in the fashionable tonsorial establishments estab-lishments is extending, and the ; time is evidently not far distant when the leading hotels will include a lady barber among their list of attractive features. Brooklyn is the possessor of the prettiest lady barber bar-ber in the country. ' . She is a charming blonde of 22, with blue eyes and enough golden hair to make wigs for a whole ballet. She is the ; proprietress of her own shop and is rapidly acquiring a fortune by the dextrous use of the razor and the lather brush. At' all hours of the day bald-headed bald-headed men with an eye for beauty crowd the shop and listen impatiently for the fair artist to shout "Next!" When she does shout there is a rush for the chair which threatens to end in a riot. The lucky man lays back in the chair with a seraphic smile illuminating his countenance, counten-ance, while the dainty fingers of the lady barber softly travel. over his hardened cheek. Lots of young men wander into the Bhop in a timid manner, but rarely pluck up courage enough to make a dash for the chair. The bald-headed men have the call in that establishment, and they will allow no infringement upon their rights. The once large force of lady barbers in New York has apparently dwindled down to one solitary hone-handler. She is as pretty as a picture, but it's a very poor picture. This-lady does not enjoy the patronage which -her Brooklyn sister revels in; In fact, most of her customers are men who try a shave just to see what it feels like at the hands of a lady. They rarely ' return a second time, and a few ! declare they would rather be shaved by a I circular saw. New York Journal. . |