Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1900 — What the Barber Said. [ARTICLE]

What the Barber Said.

“To shave a man at home,” said a barber, “1 charge a quarter, but to shave a dead man half a dollar is the price. About a tenth of my private customers are women. “I shave at their bouses six or seven women every day. 1 don’t know why It Is some women have beards. It is very distressing to them, and they shave close and often. It is their only remedy. The electric needle is no good for them, you see, because their beards are so thick that ft would take a lifetime for the operator to go over their faces and pluck each hair out separately, as must be done In the electrical depllitating system. “Beards only grow on old women. They are one of the feminine disfigurements of age. It is the same trouble, I suppose, as that which affects old men. Old men, you know, have thick growths of hair fn their nostrils and ears that must be cut out weekly, and their eyebrows If not regularly trimmed would grow to two or three Inches.”—Philadelphia Record.