DELILAH UP-TO-DATE

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 146, 17 December 1927, Page 16

DELILAH UP-TO-DATE

The .ancient Samsou certainly came to grief through having his hair out by a woman, but a modern Delilah has lived down this» superstition, and has made a very successful business venture in cutting men's hair (says a London correspondent). She is a vistiing barber, and gets about to her clients on a bicycle—a mode of transport far removed indeed from Biblical days. "Men like me to cut their hair," she explained recently; "they actually prefer me to London barbers! I will tell you how it happened. One day each •week I devote to a small and scattered village in Essex. I arrive there early in the morning and do not return till late at night. Arriving at a house later than usual I found the husband at home, and as he watched me trimming lis wife's hair, he expressed the opinion that he would like to have his done, too. He was so pleased with the result that he urged his friends to have theirs done likewise. Now I have worked up a good business and my appointment list grows longer ;md longer." That may be true, of course, but there is jnst the suggestion to make that men find themselves very small fry with the London barber these days, who devotes all his time and energy on his women cuustomers, so that the men ;i.rc only ■too glad to find someone who will take a sympathetic interest in whatever hair they may have. Even bartering has its, psychological aspects to be taken Into consideration.